Astronomy is one of the oldest disciplines of science. Many prehistoric monuments are aligned with stars and planets, giving us clues as to the importance of ancient forms of astronomy. As a result, astronomers remain one of the leading groups responsible for the serious investigation of the UFO phenomenon.

Caracol (The Observatory) in Chichén Itzá, Mexico. The lines of this Mayan temple line up with at least 20 separate astronomical events.

(Credit: Daniel Schwen/Wikimedia Commons)

Astronomer UFO Sightings During the Renaissance

Jean-Charles Houzeau portrait from Popular Science Monthly in 1891. (Credit: Popular Science Monthly)

Hundreds of years ago astronomers were observing objects which can still not be definitively identified. Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck chronicle many reports of anomalous aerial objects throughout history in their book, Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times. One of these mysterious observations was by the famous astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini.

In 1672, Cassini spotted a small object close to Venus.  At first he only took note, but did not share the discovery. He then saw it again in 1686 and decided to announce it as a possible discovery of a new moon of Venus. His sightings continued over the next few decades but were sporadic. In 1884, a former director for the Royal Observatory in Brussels, Jean-Charles Houzeau, proposed the idea that the object observed by Cassini  may be another planet. He also named the object Neith, after an Egyptian Goddess. In 1887, the Belgian Academy of Sciences suggested that Neith was just a group of stars near Venus.

In 1686, a much more mysterious sighting was reported by astronomer Gottfried Kirch, the director of the Berlin Observatory. His sighting took place in Leipzig, Germany on July 9 at approximately 1:20 a.m. Kirch said that he saw an extremely bright fireball with a tail that was a quarter the size of the Moon, hovering in the sky for fifteen minutes. He said that people in towns as far as eleven miles away also reported seeing the object. Kirsh explained that eventually the object darted off to the right and left two “globules” that could only be seen by telescope.

Astronomers and Modern UFO research

Cover of the book Wonders in the Sky by Vallee and Aubeck.

(Credit: Tarcher/Penguin Publishing)

UFO sightings by astronomers are often taken more serious than those by the general public, due in part because astronomers are trained to observe and identify astronomical objects and spend a lot of time looking up into Space. Understandably, UFO reports from renowned astronomers helped boost the public’s fascination at the inception of the modern UFO era.

Prior to World War II, UFOs were not as prevalent a topic as they are now. In fact, the term “UFO” was not even coined until the early 1950s during the U.S. Air Force investigation of the phenomenon.  Sightings were abundant in the 1950s, and they often made media headlines. It was at this time that Life magazine put together a compelling story that included the accounts of two well-known astronomers.  The Life article described the first of these men as “one of the U.S.’s top astronomers.” He wanted to remain anonymous for the magazine story, but it was later discovered that this was Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, a leading scientist in the study of meteors.

In the article, Dr. LaPaz described a sighting that he and his family had on July 10, 1947 at 4:47 p.m. He, his wife, and their two teenage daughters were driving from Clovis, New Mexico to Clines Corners, New Mexico, when they all noticed a strange luminous object that hovered in the sky. Instinctively, Dr. LaPaz began estimating distances in order to make calculations about the object, and his entire family followed suit.

Dr. LaPaz described the object as follows:

[It] showed a sharp and firm regular outline, namely one of a smooth elliptical character much harder and sharper than the edges of the cloudlets . . . The hue of the luminous object was somewhat less white than the light of Jupiter in a dark sky, not aluminum or silver-colored . . . The object clearly exhibited a sort of wobbling motion . . . This wobbling motion served to set off the object as a rigid, if not solid body.

Dr. Lincoln LaPaz on the cover of the University of Wichita Alumni Magazine.

(Credit: University of Wichita Alumni Magazine)

Dr. LaPaz’s family watched the object for thirty seconds before it moved behind a cloud. The object reappeared soon after, but they eventually lost sight of it as it moved behind the clouds again. Dr. LaPaz said, “This remarkably sudden ascent thoroughly convinced me that we were dealing with an absolutely novel airborne device.”

Life Magazine, April 7, 1952. The UFO story in this issue included UFO sightings from prominent astronomers, and alerted the public that UFOs was considered by many as a credible issue.

(Credit: Life Magazine/NICAP)

Dr. LaPaz estimated that the object was 20 to 30 miles away and that it was a solid elliptical object approximately 165 to 245 feet long and 65 to 100 feet from top to bottom. He also estimated that it moved at between 120 and 180 mph horizontally and 600 to 900 mph vertically. His family agreed with his calculations. He did not believe that the object was of an astronomical nature, an illusion, a rocket, or a missile.

Later in the article, Dr. LaPaz commented on the mysterious nature of hundreds of green fireballs seen throughout the Southwest, mostly in New Mexico, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. One green fireball incident referred to a sighting of a large fireball seen by over a hundred-fifty people in Arizona in November 1951.

The sightings of green fireballs became so frequent that the U.S. Air Force established Project Twinkle in order to investigate them. Dr. LaPaz was one of the experts that investigated the phenomenon, and he felt that whatever was being seen were not meteorites.

The Life article explained:

[Dr. LaPaz] points out that normal fireballs do not appear green, they fall in the trajectory forced on them by gravity, are generally noisy as a freight train, and leave meteorites where they hit. The green New Mexican species does none of these things. Neither do the green fireballs appear to be electrostatic phenomena—they move too regularly and too fast.

The second sighting by an astronomer covered in the Life article was that of Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered Pluto. At around 11:00 p.m., while sitting in his backyard in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with his wife and mother-in-law, they all saw an object dart across the night sky. They agreed it appeared to be oval shaped and had a blue-green glow. Tombaugh said it “seemed to trail off at the rear into a shapeless luminescence.” Tombaugh alleged that he also saw what appeared to be half a dozen windows on the front and the side of the craft.

Project Blue Book Report on UFOs and Astronomers

The Life article popularized the UFO phenomenon at the time and exhibited the highly credible nature of some of the witnesses. Its effect on the U.S. Air Force’s official UFO investigation, Project Blue Book, was evident in a report put together by their consulting astronomer, Dr. J. Allen Hynek. The report referenced the Life article and may have even inspired it altogether.

A still from Dr. J. Allen Hynek’s cameo appearance on Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

(Credit: Columbia Pictures)

Hynek is often considered the father of modern UFO research. He was a professor of astronomy at Ohio State University when he began consulting for the air force on identifying UFOs. At the time he began working with the air force he said he thought the topic of UFOs was just a fad and referred to it as “utterly ridiculous.” However, his opinions eventually changed, and he began to take the topic very seriously.

Hynek is infamous for trying to explain away a famous rash of UFO sightings in Michigan in 1966 as an effect of swamp gas. However, he is more fondly remembered for coming up with the close encounters classification system for UFO reports.

In 1952, Hynek began to surmise that there was more to the UFO phenomenon than he had previously thought. In August, he submitted a report to the air force titled, “Special Report on Conferences with Astronomers on Unidentified Aerial Objects.” Hynek had decided it would be valuable to get the opinions of astronomers on UFOs and assist in the air force’s investigation into UFOs.  In order to get the astronomers’ true opinions, Hynek did not tell them he was involved with the air force. He told them he was just a traveling astronomer visiting observatories to talk about scientific issues. He spoke to forty astronomers at various observatories.

Front page of Hynek’s astronomer report in the USAF Project Blue Book files. Click the image to view the entire report in pdf.

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For the most part, Hynek kept the names of the astronomers anonymous, except for those that had already revealed their names in the Life article or had done so to the media in some other fashion. The opinions among the astronomers he spoke to varied. Some thought the topic was a waste of time; others thought that government secrecy on the issue was “stupid.” One astronomer said that if he had seen something he would not tell anyone unless he could remain anonymous and he knew the information was going to a group of scientists for serious research.

Among those who shared their UFO sightings, one had said that he and another astronomer had sighted a group of five “ball-bearing-like” objects moving rapidly during the day. Two years later, he saw a singular similar object. Another astronomer reported that he had seen a light zoom across his field of view that went too fast to be a plane and too slow to be a meteorite. This astronomer pointed out that it is important that scientists do not “fall into the error of believing we understand all physical phenomena.”

Professor Clyde Tombaugh

Tombaugh and LaPaz were also part of Hynek’s report. Hynek reported that besides the sighting Tombaugh reported to Life, he also shared another sighting that took place at White Sands Proving Grounds just outside of Las Cruces. Tombaugh said that while he was looking through his telescope he saw a luminous object traveling from the “zenith to the southern horizon in about three seconds.”

Tombaugh also offered up the use of his telescope at White Sands to help the U.S. Air Force investigate UFOs. He told Hynek that he would just have to ask the general in charge, but Hynek never divulged whether that request was made.

Hynek wrote that he also asked the astronomers about LaPaz’s findings in regards to the green fireballs seen in the Southwest. Many thought the objects were most likely natural objects, but Hynek said questioning revealed that many of them had little knowledge of the details of the sightings. Hynek agreed with LaPaz that given the descriptions and frequency, the green fireball phenomenon did not exhibit characteristics of astronomical objects.

In conclusion, Hynek found that of the forty astronomers he interviewed, five had reported sightings. Hynek noted that this is a higher percentage than the rest of the population. He speculated that this is perhaps because astronomers watch the sky more often, but also noted that astronomers are less likely to misidentify aerial objects.

Hynek observed that the astronomers he spoke to weren’t particularly hostile towards the idea of UFO investigations. He said that when he described the details of the more mysterious reports, they seemed genuinely interested. He felt their “lethargy” toward the subject was mostly due to a lack of good information. Hynek said their biggest fear seemed to be getting branded as questionable scientists as a result of any association with the UFO topic.

Hynek recommended that the U.S. Air Force officially give UFOs the status of a scientific problem and that a group of reputable scientists be allowed to examine sightings. He felt that such an effort would not only lead towards more answers, but also lend dignity to the issue.  He continued to push for serious scientific investigation into UFOs.

The UFO Experience Bookcover

Three years after the air force closed down official UFO investigations in 1969, he published his first book on UFOs, The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. In his book, he released his close encounters scale and shared another story on astronomers’ opinions on UFOs.  He recounted the story of a reception at which “several hundred” astronomers were in attendance, and where it was reported that there was a UFO being seen outside making strange maneuvers. He said people laughed and made some jokes as usual, but not a single astronomer went outside to investigate.  His problem with this was that the lack of investigation didn’t exhibit a true scientific inquisitiveness. He quoted physicist and philosopher Erwin Schrödinger who wrote, “The first requirement of a scientist is that he is curious. He should be capable of being astonished and eager to find out.”

In 1973, Hynek founded the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), an organization of scientists and technical experts. In 1980, they conducted a poll (which included eighteen hundred members of various amateur astronomer associations) and found that 24% responded that they had “observed an object which resisted [their] most exhaustive efforts at identification.”

The Sturrock Report

The U.S. Air Force stopped investigating UFOs based in large part on a study by the University of Colorado in Boulder which was issued in 1969. The study concluded that there was no scientific value in the investigation of UFOs. This report has been dubbed the “Condon Report” in reference to the lead scientist of the investigation, Dr. Edward Condon. In 1970, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AAIA) released its own report that was the result of a multi-year study by one of the organization’s subcommittees. The AAIA disagreed with Condon stating, “[we] did not find a basis in the report for his prediction that nothing of scientific value will come of further studies.” In fact, they suggested further study was warranted.

UFO Enigma Bookcover

In his book, The UFO Enigma: A New Review of the Physical Evidence, Dr. Peter Sturrock, a professor of applied physics at Stanford University, noted that the AAIA report made him wonder if perhaps scientists would be more interested in reports by other scientists. He conducted a small survey amongst the members of the San Francisco chapter of the AAIA, and the results were published in their monthly journal in 1974. Of the twelve hundred members responding, 5% said they had UFO sightings.

Encouraged by the results, Dr. Sturrock sought to perform a larger survey and was given permission by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to poll their membership. Dr. Sturrock wrote that he was pleased to receive a 52% response rate, with only a few rude remarks. In fact, the responses were overwhelmingly supportive. Similarly to his previous study, 5% of AAS members admitted having unexplainable sightings.  However, Dr. Sturrock was even more satisfied with the results of this study because they indicated that there was significant interest among astronomers in continued research into the UFO phenomenon.  Sturrock summarized: “Each respondent was asked to state his opinion on whether the UFO problem deserves scientific study: 23% replied ‘certainly,’ 30% ‘probably,’ 27% ‘possibly,’ 17% ‘probably not,’ and 3% ‘certainly not,’ which represents a positive attitude among 53% of the respondents, as against a negative attitude among 20%.”

The high number of positive responses surprised Sturrock, as he was expecting the opposite. He had also asked how the AAS members would like to receive information on this subject, and the response was overwhelmingly through scientific journals. However, Dr. Sturrock and his colleagues always had problems getting their papers regarding UFOs printed in mainstream journals. This contradiction prompted Sturrock to help start a new organization called the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE), which publishes a peer-reviewed journal.  Of the dozen or so professors that helped found the SSE, seven were astronomers. The SSE is still going strong with a large membership of doctorates. The organization’s website defines it as “a professional organization of scientists and scholars who study unusual and unexplained phenomena. Subjects often cross mainstream boundaries, such as consciousness, unidentified aerial phenomena, and alternative medicine, yet often have profound implications for human knowledge and technology.”

Astronomers and UFOs Today

Interest in the UFO phenomenon hasn’t been a passing fad, and astronomers continue to show interest in UFO research today. In 2011, Irish astronomer Eamonn Ansbro made news when he claimed that he was tracking UFOs. Ansbro said that he is convinced that what he is tracking are extraterrestrial spacecraft. He has even given lectures on the topic to the French government, and his studies have been published by the European Space Agency. He has named his project the Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (OSETI).

He told his local paper, the Roscommon Herald, “We haven’t proven our discovery to the scientific community yet and don’t have the resources but we can show that extraterrestrial space craft are on specific orbital tracks around the earth.”

Interest in the phenomenon also continues in other parts of the world. Astronomers at Canada’s David Dunlop Observatory in Richmond Hill, Ontario, have been holding lectures on UFOs. The lecturers include astronomers Dr. Ian Shelton and Dr. Tuba Koktay, a husband and wife team, who both worked at the observatory in the past. Dr. Koktay is now a researcher, and Dr. Shelton teaches astronomy at the University of Toronto. Shelton told www.yorkregion.com, “We try to be open-mined and honest, we don’t just dismiss, because we [scientists] don’t know everything.”

The ground of the David Dunlap Observatory.

Closer to home, Dr. Derrick Pitts, the chief astronomer and planetarium director for the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and a nationally renowned astronomer, recently told Lee Speigel of the Huffington Post that he was supportive of serious research on the nature of the UFO phenomenon.

I can speculate about what many astronomers would say if you ask them that question. Many of them would say, “I haven’t seen anything, so I can’t say that they exist. I can’t say that this five percent are alien spacecraft.” But if you ask them in the same breath, “Would you be willing to engage in a research project to figure out what these things are,” I don’t know what that answer would be. I’d say, yeah, let’s find out, let’s take a look at it, because here we have a phenomenon that causes a tremendous amount of interest. Why not try to understand what it is?

Astronomer Derrick Pitts

(Credit: Franklin Insitute)

The notion that astronomers are not interested in UFOs is false. Hynek, the U.S. Air Force’s own astronomer, who eventually became a pioneer in civilian UFO research, probably had it right when he observed that often scientists are just not informed of the important details. Even Dr. Pitts said his interests were piqued when he read the credible and mysterious UFO cases presented in Leslie Kean’s book, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record.

Historically, astronomers were the leading force behind investigating and reporting on the UFO phenomenon, and they continue to be the driving force into the research into the UFO phenomenon. Their interest adds credibility to the field and demonstrates that there is at least a sliver of interest in UFOs in mainstream science.

A version of this article originally appeared in Open Minds Magazine Issue 26 June/July 2014.

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In special reports, this week’s files cover: Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding and UFOs, Planetary Defense, Alien Life May be on Nearby Worlds, Bosnia House Struck 5 Times by Meteorites, and The Tubes on Mars May Hide Cities

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, International Space Station, Ireland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, and England in the United Kingdom.

The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.

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Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding and UFOs

“More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any “scientific” explanation… I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on Earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial source.”  I think that we must resist the tendency to assume that they all come from the same planet, or that they are actuated by similar motives. It might be that the visitors from one planet wished to help us in our evolution from the basis of a higher level to which they had attained.”1954, London’s Sunday Dispatch

In 1936, Dowding was appointed commanding officer of the RAF Fighter Command, where he conceived and oversaw the so-called Dowding System” for the air defense of Great Britain using the new technology of radar, which the English were just developing for the first time. Quoting from his biographical profile from rafweb.org.

 “He helped develop eight gun fighters (Hurricane and Spitfire), and radar for the detection of enemy aircraft.  He was given command of the newly formed Fighter Command in July 1936.  He immediately set about developing a system able to make best use of his limited resources. He established the coastal chain of radar stations and a reporting and control system which allowed his aircraft to be placed in the right location and altitude to meet the threat.” Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain where Nazi bomber forces were defeated.

After Dowding retired he wrote books on spiritualism, and investigated UFOs with Prince Phillip, and Lord Mountbatten. Thanks to Antonio Huneeus a long time friend

Planetary Defense

An enormous asteroid that could strike the Earth in 2028 made its first pass near us last month and doomsayers are using it as proof we need to build a planetary defense system. The potentially killer space rock measures about a mile in diameter and passed safely outside the moon’s orbit, but it’s scheduled to return again sometime in 2028 when it will be much closer to Earth.

Dubbed 1997 XF11, the meandering asteroid passed close to 27 million miles from Earth along with several other space rocks scheduled to come near the planet. Next time, however, its orbit will be much more erratic, making it more likely to strike the planet and cause an extinction level event.

NASA’s Near Earth Object Program tracks asteroids that pass close by every day, but the U.S. space agency can’t see them all coming, astrophysicist Jose Ramon Valdes told the Express. “There are many, but few reach the ground, however we must be prepared for a big one, because they are fatal and would finish a city.” Late last month, an asteroid came extremely close to striking the Earth. The fireball it created as it skipped through the atmosphere was seen over five states and Mexico where its shockwaves shook local houses, Puebla resident Eduardo Bravo told the Express.

“The sky was lit up as if lightning had struck and a few seconds later we saw an orange object like a rocket.”

Conspiracy theorists went crazy over the event, thinking aliens had finally decided to reveal their presence, and that forced NASA to hold a press conference explaining the earthly nature of the event. “The trajectory of big asteroids can be seen and monitored; the problem is the small ones that we cannot see.”

In April, NASA discovered 72 new asteroids approaching Earth as part of its NEO program designed to track potentially killer space rocks. NASA thinks there are about 10,000 giant rocks floating in space that could potentially at some time strike the Earth, but the space agency admits it can only track about 10 percent of the asteroids.

So far, the Earth has no planetary defense system, but there are several countries working on systems to protect the planet from a doomsday type event including the U.S. and Russia. Russia is planning to shoot missiles at any asteroid near enough to threaten the planet. It’s the country most affected by falling space rocks; almost every 50 years Russian cities have been damaged by asteroids. The last one came in 2013 when a 65-foot-wide rock dropped out of the Chelyabinsk sky and injured more than 1,000 people, causing thousands of dollars in damage.

The U.S. is also investing in planetary defense technology; the plan includes landing robots on smaller asteroids and remotely piloting them into the larger killer asteroid to save mankind from extinction. Neither country’s technology is ready for deployment. SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s plans to send a manned expedition to Mars by 2028. The billionaire, who also founded Tesla, may be our best hope for a quick response to a dangerous asteroid. I saw his impressive facilities on Vandenberg Air Force Base.  Starting in 2017, Boeing and SpaceX will become the first private companies to send NASA astronauts into orbit. Thanks to Express http://www.express.co.uk

Alien Life May be on Nearby Worlds

Coburn Palmer reports, that a second Earth like planet has been s spotted nearby. European scientists have discovered a batch of alien worlds out in deep space that could support extraterrestrial life including one orbiting the star closest to our Sun.

Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have spotted a faraway rocky and potentially habitable Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf star 4.25 light years from the Sun.

An astrophysicist at the ESO broke the discovery of the alien world to the German magazine Der Spiegel, although the observatory is waiting for confirmation before it makes an official announcement later this month. “It was hard work finding the tiny celestial body. We were at the limits of what is technologically possible when it comes to measurements.”

The unnamed exoplanet is .24 light years away from the two stars of Alpha Centauri and is considered part of that system; the constellation is mainly visible from the southern hemisphere.

The faraway alien world circles a small cool red dwarf star, so it most probably exists in constant twilight and any plants and animals living on its surface would look drastically different from those on Earth.

The planet sits in the habitable “goldilocks” zone and should therefore be able to support liquid water on its surface, but because of the darkness, trees and shrubs on the surface would probably be pitch-black in color. The darkly colored leaves would enable the alien plants to use photosynthesis to survive.

The alien planet is several million years older than Earth, so it could contain higher life forms, similar to humans, but its star tends to erupt with violent solar storms, so it’s also possible all the rivers, lakes, and oceans evaporated a long time ago, according to Der Spiegel.

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“Never before have planet-hunters come upon another possible Earth that is so nearby.” The still nameless planet is believed to be Earth-like and orbits at a distance to Proxima Centauri that could allow it to have liquid water on its surface — an important requirement for the emergence of life. Never before have scientists discovered a second Earth that is so close by.”

Another 20 potentially Earth-like planets with potential for water were discovered using NASA’s Kepler space telescope. They could contain alien life or one day be suitable for human colonization.

“It’s exciting to see the sheer amount of planets that are out there. [It] makes you think that there is zero chance of there not being another place where life could be found.” We might know more about the existence of extraterrestrial life on these distant alien planets when Stephen Hawking and Silicon Valley billionaire Yuri Milner finish building their fleet of nanocraft that are capable of reaching 30 percent the speed of light. The project, called Breakthrough Starshot, uses small wafer-thin spacecraft that are outfitted with special solar sails capable of catching lasers fired from Earth to accelerate into deep space. Once launched into space, the tiny ships could reach Alpha Centauri in 15 years where hopefully they woulddiscover more alien worlds, USC’s Professor Phillip Lubin told Universe Today.

Most of the nearby stars have exoplanets around them that may be able to support life.

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Bosnia House Struck 5 Times by Meteorites

GORNJA LAMOVITE — Radivoje Lajic believes he is under attack from outer space. A Bosnian man whose home has been hit an incredible five times by meteorites believes he is being targeted by aliens. Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the rocks Radivoje Lajic has handed over were meteorites. They are now investigating local magnetic fields to try and work out what makes the property so attractive to the heavenly bodies. But Mr. Lajic, who has had a steel girder reinforced roof put on the house he owns in the village of Gornja Lamovite, has an alternative explanation.

He said: “I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don’t know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. “The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit five times has to be deliberate. The strikes always happen when it is raining heavily, never when there are clear skies. He said: “I have had them all confirmed as meteorites by experts at Belgrade University.”I am being targeted by aliens. They are playing games with me.” Website

The Tubes on Mars May Hide Cities

Mars has often been hit by asteroids, therefore the Martians have apparently gone underground or at least developed protected tunnels or tubes for transportation and building of cities. As you can see in this NASA image of evidence drawn from MOC strip E12-03186, we can see giant tube evidence developed inside the bottom of a crater.

The top or northern most tube is the most fully formed and borders on what appears at first view to be natural adjacent terrain. The tubes here are a part of the much larger cohesive tube system to the immediate and adjacent south. You can see the sunlight reflections gleaming off of the top surface of the main top tube system. These lighter streaks paralleling the tube could also be the reflection of light from highways running inside the tubes.

Notice also the many vague light color spots all over the tubes and their not well defined but still uniform spacing as well as size and shape appearance. The appearance of these spots tends to encourage speculation that these spots are something under and/or within the tubes. The bottom tube encourages speculation that the flattened area of the mass may collect air and/or water. Many NASA images have shown water collecting at the bottom of craters. What little atmosphere detected on Mars would also tend to move to the bottom of craters making them an ideal place to construct living quarters?

Notice too that the light gleam and reflection reveals the edges of a narrow band of depression indentation that runs the entire longitudinal length of the main tube top surface and note it is fairly uniform in its width. This looks very much like something due to fairly recent expansion stress. This factor may be an indicator that this entire giant tube system may have undergone an enlarging expansion as to its width and girth after it was already fully formed. Notice also the vague darker streaks on or inside the main tube that may be structure support.

According to the MSSS supplied statistics, the strip on the top is 2.98 km wide or almost 2 miles wide and the strip on the bottom is 2.94 km wide. Remember that the tubes in both strips extend from one side edge to the other and off the strip with no signs of diminishment in size. They actually span a crater and may continue underground. Note that this is a total of 5.92 km or 3.68 miles in just the tube length we can see in the two strips.

However, you can also visually see that the space gap between the two strips is at the very minimum 3.0 km wide and probably more. When you add this minimum figure, you get 8.92 km or 5.54 miles of tube length. However, we can also reasonably assume that there is still plenty of tube system unseen off the left or west edge of the E12-03186 strip and off the right or east edge of the E11-03408 strip. Note that the dark area spread on the crater floor that is mostly the tube mass tends to confirm a much greater mass size beyond the limitations of the strip views and therefore probably substantial more tube length. So, we’re talking about a colossal tube system substantially longer than 5.5 miles and in fact many kilometers or miles longer than that could easily hide cities.

This image is from a different E11-03408 strip but is a section of the same tube system but this scene is a little further right or east. The combined strips reinforce the fact that this giant tube system is many kilometers long and that knowledge gives us a little better insight of the huge colossal scale we are really looking at here. Here again we have light reflections off of the tube’s top surface and this is again is strong evidence that the surface of these tubes is very smooth to the point of being slick like glass. A second tube is underneath and parallel to the main full blown top tube perhaps carrying water or air. There appears to be a colossal arched dome like top surface? Could these be the tops of buildings or some sort of vegetation, such as for example huge tree tops?

In this strip, you can also see the meandering streaks on or inside the main tube a strong indicator that the streaks are something formed inside the interior of the tube curling back around on itself in loops  represents the activity of life of some kind. These giant kilometers long tubes could hold entire cities. I am fully satisfied that they at minimum represent the activities of life of some kind but we just can’t yet be sure as to what form of life. The most obvious speculation is that these are artificial construct hollow covers providing protective habitat and therefore may represent intelligent civilized life.

It must also be remembered that these tube shapes are very self contained and isolated and do not appear to mix with the immediate crater terrain they sit in. Dust is blown around Mars but these tubes are very unlikely to be formed by loose dust sediment piles.

So, we are talking about this monstrous dense mass standing elevated in a great uniformly rounded height taller than most skyscrapers and, if it was hollow, you could fly a number of 747s abreast down its inside length and never come close to the interior sides. It is able to support itself in a rounded elevated form. Pressurized air could theoretically hold the tubes up or it may have an intricate structure supporting it with a thermal heat fused exterior skin surface. Even with much less gravity on Mars we are looking at a huge construction project! Thanks to Joseph P. Skipper, Investigator

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