ALIEN THREAT! THE UFO HUBRID INFILTRATION - DARK, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of video: August 2016
Maker of video: DarkJournalist

Humanity never evolved from monkeys, although we have a lot of similarities to them. humanity was created by aliens, and then every few hundred thousand years, our DNA was changed, to allow aliens to study us at each stage of evolution. We were an experiment of theirs, to learn from hard evidence of the past. We all have some alien DNA in us, some more than others, but there are a few that have significant amounts of change. Those were deliberately taken and changed by the aliens to see how their own traits in a human body would react. Perhaps to they could be among us more easily, or perhaps as a way to help humanity evolve quicker. Either way, it creates an unpredictable calculation in the human genome. 
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Hubrids Unmasked
In this mind-blowing part 2 episode Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt interviews Temple University history professor, David Jacobs, PhD on his new book, 'Walking Among Us: The Alien Plan to Control Humanity', based on three decades of research, studying over 1,150 abduction events experienced by 150 people. As the title suggests, Jacobs is not a proponent of the idea of "friendly ETs". His lifework has led him to the conclusion that an alien-controlled program to create alien-human hybrids is now reaching a new stage of completion: the integration of hybrids into human society.

Security Hybrids
Dr. Jacobs uses the term “Hubrids” to identify a new breed of hybrid that is closer to acting and living like a human being than ever before. In this rare interview he reveals unique and fascinating details of his own disconcerting personal encounters with ‘security hybrids’ that were trying to intefere with his special work of de-programming Alien Abductees from the mind control instructions placed in their minds to forget the traumatic experiences. As he continued doing sessions and penetrated deeper into the subconscious minds of the abductees he found layers of resistance where the subject would tell him that they weren’t supposed to reveal the secret techniques used to block their memories. Finally, in a unique display of open hostility, the security hybrids began to threaten Dr. Jacobs and suggested that not only would he pay a heavy price for discovering their methods but that the abductees he was working with may as well.

Controversial UFO Research
Dr. Jacobs says the basic pattern of alien abduction has always included intense sexual and reproductive aspects even in the early cases like Betty and Barney Hill, although it was intentionally covered up due to being too controversial at the time. He recounts the powerful 1957 Brazilian UFO case of Villas Boas a law student that was abducted on his parents farm and forced into bizarre sexual encounters with female hybrid onboard a UFO. The obsession the aliens have for human reproduction is an unexplained aspect of the phenomena and seems to be at the root of their intense need for secrecy and the brainwashing of their test subjects.

The State of Abduction Investigations
Since the deep investigations of Budd Hopkins and Harvard Professor John Mack into the Alien Abduction syndrome two decades ago, there has been a major plunge in the number of professionals publicly identifying themselves in any way with the alien abduction topic for fear of their reputation. According to Dr. Jacobs, The academic and scientific community has completely written off this global phenomena and has tried to ridicule it with absurd notions like ‘sleep paralysis’ or ‘hyperactive imagination'. Yet thousands of cases of UFO sightings are still reported every year and as the work Dr. Jacobs demonstrates the abduction cases continue unabated. Since the mainstream media cannot be trusted to approach the subject with an open mind, Jacobs fears that the single most important thing happening in our world today will be overlooked by a rigid and controlled scientific and educational establishment, leaving the covert forces behind these worldwide events completely uninhibited to complete their program for the domination

of humanity.

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UFO Over London Has Many Similarities To A USAF TR3B, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: Feb 2016

Location of sighting: London, England

 

I just found this, although its a few months old, its new to me and I though some of you would like to hear about it. I do believe its real, but I also believe this is alien technology used by the USAF. Its a new generation TR3B USAF craft. It has the three glowing orbs just as the TR3B has. The US military puts 98% of its top secret test flights outside of the US, so that no one will know who created them. Be we do, don't we? Just like in the 1980-90s, the US flew an alien craft over England called the Aurora Project. Its nothing new here, but I just wanted to shed some light on it, and I hope it helps. 

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We videoed this from our flat in ponders end, Enfield, London, UK. At first glance you might think this object was a star if you didn't know what your looking for, but it's not, which I could see when I videoed with my tablet and was able to zoom in fully then I noticed what it is. I was taking pics of it before from my mobile zooming then screen shooting then zooming again to see it up close. I showed people and some of them trying to tell me maybe its a helicopter, I told them I never seen a helicopter dismantle itself and reattach itself in mid air before have you? But a lot of people are more stunned at what we have filmed. Our comments: No noise from a helicopter is detectable - so that idea can be ruled out, and going by the recording we initially see spheres, then what is perhaps a domed-top craft. Of course this may be an optical illusion, (such as caused when viewing something from an extreme distance , or even an unusual angle), but to our eyes it's as if 'windows' are sometimes visible on whatever this thing is! before it changes shape into something that's almost triangular. So, could this in fact be distorted views of the ISS - International Space Station? Well, we've done a bit of research about this and according to the astronomy sites that we have referred to, there were no visible passes of the ISS when this footage was taken, and it was in view for more than the usual 2-3 minutes which is the stated time that we can normally get a sighting opportunity of the ISS from the UK.

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UFO Seen By Trail Cam As It Examines Fox On July 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: July 24, 2016
Location of sighting: unknown

Most UFOs have cloaking technology, but most UFOs can be seen a little or a lot depending on the infrared light source. Here the trail cams tiny LED infrared flash light caught the UFO as it was coming down over the fox to study it. The UFO may be only a drone, but understand, that there are small aliens that do fly smaller craft, but it is my assumption its a drone, since its safer for an alien to examine from afar. 
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This video was sent into BEAMS 24/07/2016 titled "Unexplained Lights in Garden" but with no further details or message attached. Even though we don't have any other background info about the recording, we thought this was worth posting here to see if anyone knows what the mystery aerial 'thing' is/might be. A row of lights/bars can be seen to swoop down from top-right at about 00:40 Notice how the fox seems to look up at something at the same time. Is this simply some kind of glitch in the video or something more interesting? we are not sure... fascinating to watch though.

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What Conspiracy Theorists Say About the Square-Shaped Black Patch Around the Sun

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) reportedly took an image of the Sun with a massive square-shaped black patch, which sparked debate and wild speculation among UFO conspiracy theorists. Some space enthusiasts suggest NASA uses a black square to hide or block a large alien spacecraft orbiting and drawing off energy from the Sun.

Other UFO hunters believe that the black cube is Borg cube alien spacecraft, derived from science fiction movie series “Star Trek.”

Skeptics say the dark square-shaped patch found in the SOHO image could be just pixelation flaws in the digital device or a NASA device used as an occulting disk.

Meanwhile, the believers argue that NASA might be using the occulting device to block out from view a massive UFO around the sun.

There have been several reports in the past on alien spacecraft seen around the Sun and thought to refuel energy from it. Moreover, many theories are suggesting extraterrestrial races would use any star as a power source.

But for some believers, the black square isn’t a UFO, but a NASA cover-up to hide a massive alien spacecraft orbiting around the Sun to harvest solar energy.

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New Clues to Ceres’ Bright Spots and Origins

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been taking images of Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt, since December 2014. As Dawn’s orbit brought it closer to the dwarf planet’s surface, a mystery appeared: Ceres has bright spots. Over 130 separate areas on Ceres, reaching up to 6 miles wide, shine out from their dark surroundings. After months of study and speculation, scientists have confirmedthat the brightest spots are made of sodium carbonate, making Ceres’ Occator Crater the largest deposit of this sort of mineral ever found beyond Earth.

Since images of the bright spots were released, scientists and the public alike have speculated about what they could be: NASA even created a poll to gather opinions. At first, the leading theory suggested that the bright spots were expanses of water ice, either brought to the surface by volcanic activity or revealed by an impact. Even as evidence mounted that the spots were made of some sort of mineral salt, more and more ideas, ranging from the plausible theory that Ceres was covered in an ice mantle just below the surface to the fanciful notion that the spots could be a shining alien city.

Until June, no clear answer revealed itself. According to Andreas Nathues of the Max Planck Institute in Germany, “The main problem we had [analyzing the bright spots] during approach phase was that our spatial resolution was too low.” Because Dawn’s instruments were calibrated based on Ceres’ darker surface, the images didn’t capture any detail in the bright areas. “In June, we divided our exposure times for the bright spots and the dark surface. Then the spatial resolution started to become sufficient to identify what the spots are,” Nathues said.

As Dawn and its newly-calibrated cameras approached Ceres, details of the bright spots came into focus. “Dawn has transformed what was so recently a few bright dots into a complex and beautiful, gleaming landscape,” said Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer and mission director. Now, two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Geoscience, have concluded that Ceres’ bright spots are sodium carbonate and that Ceres is much drier than previous observations led scientists to expect.

On Earth, sodium carbonate is primarily found in hydrothermal environments, where hot water leaks from the planet’s crust. Similarly, the sodium carbonate on Ceres appears to

have welled up from deeper inside the planet, suggesting that its interior may be warmer than scientists previously thought. The sodium carbonates also serve as a clue that Ceres once had liquid water below its surface: author of the Nature study and Dawn scientist Maria Cristina De Sanctis said, “These minerals can be formed only in a liquid water environment.”

However, the study found no evidence for water in any of Ceres’ craters: if there was a subsurface ocean (or subsurface puddles) there, it either froze or disappeared millions of years ago. Ceres even has less ice than expected, according to the study in Nature Geoscience, led by Michael Bland of the US Geological Survey. “Before Dawn’s arrival there was this expectation that Ceres would be relatively ice-rich,” Bland said, but when the spacecraft got there it found topographical features indicating that Ceres’ subsurface isunder 40 percent water ice by volume. That could be enough water to aid in the formation of carbonates, but it would have to be liquid and Ceres has a temperature of -105 degrees Celsius.

As Nathaus expressed, “it’s very hard to explain carbonates in these amounts. This is still a mystery.” The results published in these two studies “are two pieces of the puzzle, and . . .  there’s still work to be done to link them together,” Bland said. The Dawn spacecraft will continue to collect puzzle pieces for the remainder of its mission, as NASA recently decided that it will remain at Ceres rather than moving on to other objects in the asteroid belt.

“It’s amazing how much we have been able to learn about Ceres’ interior from Dawn’s observations of chemical and geophysical properties. We expect more such discoveries as we mine this treasure trove of data,” said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator for the Dawn mission. The data will keep pouring in; it’s up to scientists to piece it together. 

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Is dit het bewijs dat aliens bestaan?

Niet panikeren, maar wetenschappers hebben een mysterieus zwevend voorwerp ontdekt in ons zonnestelsel en ze hebben geen flauw idee wat het zou kunnen zijn.

Is het Superman? Of zijn het buitenaardse wezens die de mensheid willen uitroeien? Niemand weet het zeker. Wat we wel zeker weten, is dat wetenschappers en vlek net voorbij Neptunus ontdekt hebben, en het is 160000 keer zwakker dan de verste planeet van de zon. Volgens de website New Scientist gedraagt het voorwerp zich erg vreemd: het draait achterwaarts om de zon en gaat iedere dag iets hoger vliegen.

De ruimtevlek kreeg de naam Niku, wat ‘rebel’ betekent in het Chinees. Astrofysicus Matthew Holman laat weten dat Niku het bewijs is dat er in ons zonnestelsel veel meer gaande is dan we beseffen. Andere astronomen zijn benieuwd naar wat het voorwerp volgens theoretische analisten zou kunnen zijn.

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The Dragon’s Triangle, Resting Place of a Now-Defunct Underwater Alien Base?

There is a place off the coast of Japan that has the same markings as the Bermuda Triangle but is not as famous as the world’s favorite anomalous zone. The Japanese call it Ma-no Umi, the Devil’s Sea. That’s a pretty clear indicator of what’s going on there.

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One of the twelve Vile Vortices we’ve discussed in a previous article, this loosely triangular area is located just 60 miles south of Tokyo. The weird occurrences it accommodates and probably generates have determined paranormal authors to call this watery irregularity the Bermuda Triangle of the Pacific.

 

Just like in the case of the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil’s Sea—which is also known as the Dragon’s Triangle—does not show up on any official cartography documents or maritime maps. It is a place that officials prefer not to openly discuss. Interestingly enough, its geographical location might offer a clue as to why it shares similarities with the triangle of the Bermudas: the Devil’s Sea is located almost exactly on the other side of the planet. Coupled with the notion that the Bermuda Triangle is what remained of Atlantis, this has given rise to speculations that the location might be its magnetic antagonist, an anti-Atlantis, if you will.

 

 

A rather large number of ships and planes of all sizes have reportedly gone missing when flying over or sailing across the trembling waters. Electronic equipment oftentimes malfunctions without reason and without warning. Witnesses report seeing strange lights and eerily glowing orbs trailing commercial vessels. People describe curious and unexplained instances including disappearances, reappearances and the missing time phenomenon. Fishermen like to add tall tales about ghost ships and their ghastly crews while the modern ufologist is quick to spot a resurgence of the UFO phenomenon in the Devil’s Sea and the neighboring area.

 

Weather changes are sudden and volatile. Strong whirlpools appear out of nowhere and disappear without leaving a trace. A strange, thick fog sometimes makes its presence felt, filling spectators with unease as it clings to objects. Natives fear it because they believe it is the medium through which one can pass in between dimensions.

 

Legends of local fishermen dating back to at least 1000 B.C.E. provide an etymological explanation to the dragon part in the name Dragon’s Triangle. According to Chinese folklore, a huge dragon once built its palace under the waves, dragging unsuspecting victims, ships and all to their watery graves. And, depending on how you look at it, there might be historical data to back up this wild hypothesis.

 

In the 13th century AD, Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan set his eyes and mind on conquering Japan. He wasn’t successful, but it wasn’t for not trying. On two different occasions, he attempted to cross the water separating Japan from mainland China but ended up losing his entire naval force in the process. In the first attempt alone, he lost over a thousand ships and 40,000 crewmen. The Japanese firmly believed this had been an act of divine intervention and attributed the victory to the Celestial Wind that guarded their empire.

 

Can a dragon be responsible for this tide-turning intervention? Or is the dragon a metaphor for something else?

 

A central figure in many Asian cultures, the dragon makes an interesting appearance in the story of China’s mythical Yellow Emperor. According to legend, Huang-Di came down to earth in a “dragon with metal scales.” The character that is said to have established astronomy in the old empire could summon this dragon at will and whilst riding it, he could traverse the expanse of space and time in a very relativistic manner. One particular tale even mentions how one of his advisers came back an old man after taking it for a spin. Once his dealings with the earthlings had come to fruition, the Yellow Emperor called the dragon one last time and left for Xuanyuan, his home world. Astronomers identified Xuanyuan as Alpha Leonis, a star system located 79 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Leo.

 

If we transpose this dragon of olden legends into the modern world, we can extract many similarities with modern UFOs. If we venture and make this assumption, what can we say about the aquatic ‘palace’ the dragon built for himself? Can we assimilate it into a notion that accepts the existence of underwater bases in our planet’s seas and oceans, built and operated by extraterrestrials?

 

 

There is another legend that supports this theory: the tale of Utsuro-bune. The earliest account can be traced back to 1803, when two strange tales began circulating in Japan. As the story goes, Japanese sailors encountered a hollow ship floating aimlessly in the Pacific. Circular in shape, the ship was covered in glass windows. Naturally, the sailors towed the ship to shore and were amazed to find a very beautiful woman sitting inside, clutching a chest. Pale and red-haired, the woman spoke a strange language and wore equally strange garments. Unable to initiate any meaningful communication, the traveler made a hand gesture encompassing the sea and left the sailors dumbfounded when she returned to her ship and sailed away. Utsuro-bune, as she was nicknamed, would go on to make appearances along the entire coast of Japan in the following year. No-one knows who she was or where she came from but speculations about her otherworldly origins are abundant. Her proximity to the Dragon’s Triangle could indicate she was a refugee or an outcast that left the underwater base in an escape pod. If this is the case, the contents of her box must have been very valuable.

 

In recent years, the most extensive investigation into the Devil’s Sea was attempted by author Charles Berlitz. In The Dragon’s Triangle, Berlitz reported dozens of disappearances solely in the 1952-1954 time period. According to his sources, the Japanese military had lost five vessels and a combined crew of over 700 but were keeping a tight lid on things. The lurking danger determined the Japanese government to label the area a shipping danger zone. In 1952 they launched a research project aimed at uncovering the source of these disappearances but the Kaio Maru No. 5, the very ship that was sent in search of answers disappeared itself, along with its crew of 31 people.

 

In the last decades, the place has gotten a little more quiet. Is this evidence that the dragon’s palace is now deserted?

 

Not everyone is content with supernatural explanations for these strange incidents. Natural explanations such as magnetic anomalies and methane gas deposits on the bottom of the ocean could account for some of the disappearances, but none can quell the mystery once and for all.

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Official Apollo mission transcripts reveal fascinating details about Aliens

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NASA Scientist Admits Portals Are Opening Around Earth – Proof that Project Pegasus is Real?

Many people believe the Universe can be explored in almost a blink of an eye, using energetic portals and our consciousness. The Ancients knew about these means of traveling to other Star Systems, but also to the inner Earth using crystals, pyramids, and other earthen structures aligned with the ley lines of our planet.

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Alice’s rabbit hole. The tornado in the Wizard of Oz. The ‘Gate of Hell’ in Dante’s Inferno. Fantasy literature is full of symbolism referring to portals that allowed the passage to inconceivable worlds.

 

Within this scheme we can look at the work of a NASA scientist who disclosed that everyday, portals open and close every day. Such gateways can be found within Earth’s magnetic field, falling in a direct line to the Sun’s atmosphere 93 million miles away.

 

NASA hasn’t tagged them as portals, instead opting to call them Boom Tubes, electron diffusion regions or ‘X’ points, their existence being due to magnetic resonance. It’s truly a shame “real” scientists are paid to dismiss their presence in our scope.

 

 

Jack Scudder, a NASA plasma physicist from the University of Iowa, refers to X-points as: 

• “Places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun. These portals can be elusive, however, so if one were to imagine utilizing them for space travel, they would have to be an expert in space geography and mathematics to time them correctly.”

 

Some claim that a military underground subdivision possessed the knowledge to perform time travel through stargate portals for almost 40 years.

 

Andrew D. Basiago is a former active member of DARPA’s Project Pegasus (1968-1972), claiming that the military had successfully achieved Tesla-based quantum teleportation and time travel in the time-space hologram, initiating the U.S. program of time-space travel called “Chrononauts”.

 

 

Since the 1970s, the military has been crossing worlds, and for more than 10 years, Basiago has been spreading the word to the oblivious citizens about portal-based time travel, many already familiar with the famous “Stargate” series.

 

Not only did Basiago talk about time travel, but he also claims that the CIA has a program named Mars-jump-room which grants our military units the ability to build their own bases on Mars. He also claims that even though he has worked with some of the leaders in quantum physics, the information disclosed by him is considered dissentive not only by the military but also by mainstream physicists.

 

According to Basiago, he engaged in two – allegedly – secret military programs. He claims he was one of the great deal of American children chosen to take part in experiments involving time travel. His reports on his experiences are determined based on logic alone and it is hard to disregard his tales as being sheer fantasy. It is, by all means, for the best that the US military keeps this kind of technologies secret, since they can be turned into weapons. This is no secret, ever since Rumsfeld has declared that one of the advantages of research done within Project Pegasus is the capacity to use teleportation in order to deliver troops to the proper place on the battlefield.

 

• “Radiant energy is a form of energy that Tesla discovered that is latent and pervasive in the universe and has among its properties the capacity to bend time-space.” – Andrew Basiago

 

While passing through this veil of energy, Basiago would enter a “vortal tunnel” that would send him to his destination. The other teleportation devices included a “plasma confinement chamber” in New Jersey and a “jump room” in El Segundo, California. There was also some kind of “holographic technology,” that allowed them to travel “both physically and virtually.”

 

However advanced, this unconventional transportation process had its pitfalls. One of Basiago’s colleagues, Alfred Webre recalls an incident during which one of the young chrononauts was teleported without his legs.

 

Basiago’s admission is controversial, to say the least. The technology he describes could solve a lot of mankind’s problems, but it could destroy us just as well. Collectively, we don’t even know what time is, why it is or why it flows the way it does. The human mind finds it hard to wrap around concepts like time travel and the paradoxical consequences of altering past timelines. But then again, there is nothing in Einstein’s General Relativity that can sink the notion of time travel.

 

 

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You’d Better Steer Clear of these 12 Vile Vortices!

There are places in this world where things just don’t seem to follow the rules of physics, places where strange energies are and have always been present. They are marked by unusual phenomena, unexplained disappearances and instilling violent behavior in humans and animals alike. They are called Vile Vortices, and you’ll be better off if you simply avoid them.

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Even if you haven’t heard the term vile vortex, you surely know about the most infamous of them: the Bermuda Triangle. This enigmatic place is but one of the dozen enigmatic places plotted by biologist and writer Ivan T. Sanderson, founder of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained and one of Charles Fort’s earliest followers.

 

In 1972, Sanderson wrote a piece for Saga magazine entitled The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World in which he plotted the global disappearance of planes and ships, underlining 12 areas that stood out in particular. Although not all are equally famous, each vile vortex is characterized by magnetic anomalies and abnormal occurrences. Roughly resembling lozenges, these sites are believed to be rifts where space-time folds in upon itself and everyday physics no longer applies.

 

 

Ten of Sanderson’s vortices can be found in tropical climates; five along the Tropic of Cancer and five along the Tropic of Capricorn, with the other two being located at the Earth’s North and South Poles. The twelve points are equidistant and together, they form the twelve tips of an icosahedron (think of a 20-sided dice).

 

The Vile Vortices:

 

Karachi (Pakistan), home to Mohenjo-daro, one of the world’s earliest major cities and supposedly, ground zero for the detonation of ancient nuclear weapons;

 

Hamakulia, east of Hawaii and believed to have once been a high-energy volcano, hence the anomaly;

 

Bermuda Triangle

 

Algerian Megalithic Ruins, located south of the Malian city of Timbuktu

 

Devil’s Sea, south of Tokyo – Confirming age-old legends, ships and planes routinely disappear here;

 

Zimbabwe Megaliths, massive stone structures that required a high level of masonry expertise. Some say this vortex is connected to the mysterious plane disappearances over the Sahara desert.

 

Easter Island

 

South Atlantic Anomaly, an area where the innermost Van Allen radiation belt dips very close to the Earth’s surface;

 

New Hebrides Trench, between the islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Its depest point reaches a depth of over 25,000 feet (7,600 meters);

 

Wharton Basin, another deep sea region that has seen little exploration;

 

The North and South Poles

 

 

 While Sanderson himself banked on the fact that the mysterious disappearances might have been caused by hot and cold air along with sea currents, his idea was quickly picked up and further developed by other believers in the preternatural.

 

In 1973, Soviet scientists Nikolai Goncharov, Vyacheslav Morochov, and Valery Makarov published an article called “Is the Earth a Large Crystal?” in which they forwarded the idea that strange energies operate in certain points on our planet. They wrote that the Earth’s cosmic energy matrix was divided into twelve pentagonal plates, and at the intersection of any three plates, surges in said energy were responsible for the appearance of unusual life forms, as well as enigmatic ancient civilizations. The scientists also posited that our planet is actually a gigantic crystal that resonates at 7 Hz with harmonic focal points at specific equidistant points.

 

Other writers argue that the vortices are connected to subtle matter energy and ley lines. In Mapping the World grid, author David Hatcher Childress wrote that “we are speaking about an intelligent geometric pattern into which, theoretically, the Earth and its energies are organized—and possibly in which the ubiquitous megalithic sites are also positioned.”

 

Naturally, theories related to the vile vortices have been met with a great deal of skepticism. Some of the reported disappearances were found to have mundane causes such as underwater eruptions or instruments failing (I wonder why?) but the fact of the matter remains that, throughout the world, there are strange places, forming a pattern. The implications are up to you to decide.

 

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Texan recounts close encounter with sphere UFO

A Texas witness at Keltys recounted a 1969 UFO encounter with a low flying sphere-shaped object, according to testimony in Case 78077 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness and a friend were “spot lighting racoons” off 103W between Lufkin and Crockett alongside a river at 1 a.m. on July 20, 1969, when the incident occurred.

The witness and a friend saw a low flying light in 1969 in Keltys, which is now part of Lufkin, TX, pictured.

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“We were staying the night at his grandparent’s house,” the witness stated.“We were in a large field, maybe 20+ acres, surrounded by old growth woods and with small pines in the center. We were driving my friend’s truck inside the perimeter fence. I was shining the light out the passenger window in the truck, up and down trees trying to see raccoon’s eyes, when my friend said, ‘turn off that light.’”

The driver saw something odd in the nearby woods.

“Up ahead at ground levelthe woods were lit up, and we suggested that maybe his cousins were coming in the Jeep, although it was not moving, to hunt with us.”

The two watched the light.

“While we sat and watched, the light rose up fairly quickly to above the treetops, and it appeared to be the moon – only huge. It was very scary and my friend turned the truck around and drove with the intention of leaving. When we got to the other side, headed toward the entry gate to the field, I told him to stop and asked, ‘where did it go,’ as it was no longer in sight.”

But they quickly found the light again.

“While we sat there looking out the front windshield into a cloudless sky, it reappeared just like a falling star that did not burn out, but fired directly at us, immediately growing huge once again.”

The witness almost fired his gun at the object until his friend stopped him. Pictured, Lufkin, TX, pictured.

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The event caused the witness to go for his gun.

“It startled us so much, that I began to raise the shotgun at my side. My friend slapped it back down and said, ‘No, don’t shoot it,’ and attempted to back up, but he popped the clutch too fast and the truck died. He restarted it and took off backwards.”

But the witness wanted to see the object again.

“As we were backing toward the river, I told him to stop. The object did not move again, and in every way appeared as the moon, although very huge and bright. If anyone saw it at this point, they would only have said, ‘Wow, look how big and bright the moon is.’ We sat only for a minute or two, and then he drove off toward the entrance. When we went through the gate and started into the woods, I looked back through the rear window and it was still not moving. But, as I realized only later, that it could not have been all that high, because we actually passed under it.”

The witness has never forgotten the events of that evening.

“My friend and I have discussed this event over and over throughout the years, and I have given it much thought. I have no idea what we saw, but it certainly was not the moon. I believe that it could even be human descendants of a culture with new and different technologies and abilities to create magician-like optical illusions to be able to hide in plain sight. Maybe illusions like those bomb worshipers in Planet of the Apes. I only know that we both saw the same thing and discussed it as it happened, and it most definitely was unexplainable.”

The witness and his friend drove under the object at one point. Pictured: Lufkin, TX, pictured.

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Keltys, Texas, now a part of Lufkin, was once a separately incorporated town near the junction of the Angelina and Neches rivers and the Cotton Belt railroads in northwestern Angelina County, with an estimated population of about 800.Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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Witness videotapes star-like UFOs crossing Pennsylvania

A Pennsylvania witness at Bristol reported watching and videotaping a series of star-like objects slow moving in a straight line across the sky, according to testimony in Case 78125 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness first noticed the object due to their brightness and began videotaping. Pictured: Bristol, PA.

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The witness stepped out a back door to a vehicle at 9 p.m. on July 31, 2016, when a low flying airplane was first noticed.

“I looked north and noticed five objects—I don’t want to say hovering, but flying straight; not maneuvering, but also moving away from each other,” the witness stated. “They were going at a slow pace underneath the clouds.”

Cropped and enlarged frame from the witness video.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness also noticed planes in the sky.

“Planes were flying around them and across from them. There were a lot of planes in the sky at that time—it seemed abnormal to me. Other than that, they were going real slow, but they didn’t look like airplanes.”

The brightness of the objects first triggered the witness to notice them.

“I first noticed the object because of how bright they were and how close they were at the beginning. It looked like several stars (a constellation in the sky but it wasn’t that high) when I first noticed it.”

Cropped and enlarged frame from the witness video.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness had a feeling to look at the objects.

“I felt like I always feel, when I felt a feeling like ‘look here,’ instead of looking the direction I normally look because whatever there was there. Like a feeling of ‘look before it’s too late.’ It’s weird, I don’t know. Followed them for about five minutes before it looked like they disappeared from view based on the cloud cover.”

Bristol is a borough in Bucks County, PA, population 9,726. Pennsylvania Field Investigator Bob Luther is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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GROOT VERMOMDMOEDERSCHIP BOVEN BELGIË ( VIDEO )

Als mensen wat meer naar boven zouden kijken, dan zouden ze soms de meest fantastische dingen kunnen zien. 

Natuurlijk worden er veel UFO’s en dergelijke waargenomen boven landen zoals Mexico, maar ook de lage landen worden regelmatig bezocht door buitenaardsen. 

De laatste jaren is er een verschijnsel waar wij uitgebreid over hebben geschreven en dat zijn wolken die geen wolken zijn, maar vermomde moederschepen of dimensieportalen naar andere dimensies of beide. 

Prachtige opnames daarvan in bijvoorbeeld Mexico, maar ook getuigenverklaringen uit eigen land, waarover later meer. 

Nu doet zich een vergelijkbaar verschijnsel voor ergens boven België. De exacte locatie is onduidelijk, maar wat te zien is, is zonder meer indrukwekkend. 

We zien weer, zoals meestal in dit soort situaties, een wolk die eigenlijk niet thuis hoort in de lucht zoals de er op dat moment uit ziet. 

Aan de randen van de wolk, verschijnen ronde UFO’s, die als het ware de basis verlaten en op verkenning gaan. 

Aan de bovenkant van de UFO/wolk verschijnt een soort gloeiende staaf, een beetje vergelijkbaar met een periscoop van een onderzeeër. 

Wat het ook moge zijn, duidelijk is dat het hier geen normale wolk betreft en dat er UFO’s zichtbaar zijn. 

 

Bovenstaande beelden gecombineerd met de getuigenis van een dame uit Friesland uit oktober 2014 geven een verbluffende gelijkenis: 

Lees het verhaal van onze lezeres (dank!), een nuchtere Friese dame, die 's avonds op haar fiets stapt. 

>>"Het is dinsdagavond 7 oktober en om 20.30 stap ik op de fiets vanuit Lytse Geast,(een dorpje een kleine tien kilometer ten zuid-oosten van Leeuwarden). 

Mijn weg voert door de weilanden over een afgelegen pad en als het even kan zorg ik er voor dat ik niet in mijn eentje in het donker nog op pad ben. Vandaag ben ik al te laat en de laatste schemering gaat al over in duister. 

Ik ben nog maar net buiten, of het begint te regenen en hard te waaien. Schuin voor me zie ik een paar flitsen, en het rommelt in de verte, precies tussen mij en Leeuwarden, waar ik naar op weg ben. Onweer dus, ook dat nog. 

Voor me is een brede, langgerekte, vrij laag hangende wolk. Dat is waar ik de hemel op zie lichten. Er komen witte bollen uit de wolk. Twee gaan naar links en twee gaan naar rechts. De afstand van de ene bol tot de andere blijft steeds gelijk, alsof ze met een touwtje aan elkaar vast zitten. Ze bewegen langzaam. 

Ik weet niet, wat het is, dat ik zie... zijn dit vliegtuigen? van de basis? En waarom zijn die geïnteresseerd in een onweerswolk? Ja, het zijn vast vliegtuigen. Het licht pulseert ook, zoals bij een vliegtuig. Flits aan, flits uit. Ja maar, bij een vliegtuig zie je dan altijd ook een rood licht aan en uit flitsen. dat is hier niet. Alleen wit. Melkwit. 

De twee bollen rechts zijn verdwenen, die van links zijn opeens weer terug boven de wolk. Verbeeld ik me nu dat ze sneller pulseren dan zo net? Nee, dat verbeeld ik me niet. Het lijken wel sterren en het licht is niet meer zozeer wit, als wel koud. Zoals bij sterretjes voor kleine kinderen. Het zijn nu dus geen witte bollen meer, maar steeds sneller aan- en uit flitsende 'sterren'. 

Dan zijn ze weg. Een paar minuten is er niks meer te zien en dan opeens zijn er wel twintig. Allemaal onder, boven, naast of uit de wolk. En allemaal flitsen ze aan en uit, nu in een heel hoog tempo. In een ijzig wit licht dat zo fel is dat het mij verblindt. Je zou zeggen dat ze er plezier aan beleven, zoals ze om en door de wolk heen duiken. Er in, er uit, om de wolk heen, achter elkaar aan... Net zo plotseling als ze verschenen zijn ze nu weer weg. 

En komen niet meer terug. En ik ben bijna bij de eerste huizen van de stad. Het regent niet meer en de wind gaat ook liggen. Hoe lang dit al met al geduurd heeft? Twintig minuten à hooguit een half uur. Ik kan me niet voorstellen, dat er niet meer mensen geweest zijn die dit gezien hebben. Er was echt een hele lichtshow in de lucht. 

Wat me achteraf ook nog wel frappeert, is dat er eigenlijk alleen die ene enorm grote wolk was, verder was er vrijwel geen bewolking. 

Kan iemand mij vertellen wat ik gezien heb?" 

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Jesus Statue On Mexico Church Startles Congregation By Opening Eyes On Video! Aug 2016, UFO Sighting News

Date of video: Aug 4, 2016
Location of event: Coahuila, Mexico

This week a statue of Jesus at a church in Coahuila, Mexico did something that should be impossible...it opened its eyes. This video is very remarkable and I couldn't see any obvious glitches or evidence of it being a computer generated fake. 

A UFO researcher Dr. Frank Stranges (Book, Stranger In The Pentagon) who was a priest who met the US president back in the 1960s, said that he talked to Val Valiant Thor from Venus and Val told him Jesus was not only real, but a close personal friend of his on Venus. So, Jesus is mixed in with our alien beliefs. 

Although this Jesus statue could have been made to open its eyes on purpose once a day or every few days, I cannot be sure, because the detail of the video around the eyes is not very clear. I don't believe its CGI, so I think I have to believe this one is real. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

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Blue UFO sighting makes southwest Bakersfield neighbors worried, Aug 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: August 2016
Location of sighting: Bakersfield, California, USA
News source:

 http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/mysterious-ufo-sighting-leaves-southwest-bakersfield-neighbors-puzzled

It looks like Bakersfield is of interest to an alien species out there. What convinced me that this sighting is 100% real, was the fact that at 1:29 into the video you see a flash, but its not a flash, but is actually two more glowing orbs signaling the lower orb. One makes itself visible, so the others can remain at a safer location not noticed by humans. Makes it safer if shot at by a deer rifle, or some military jets try to attack. Bakersfield is located in the desert and many species of aliens prefer this climate to build their bases below the ground, less rain underground. (i.e. Friendship Case, Rocca Pia). Underground bases are so large, they have their own weather system. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

News States: 
Several neighbors living off Alderpointe Street near Panama and Gosford in southwest Bakersfield  say they first witnessed a mysterious blue light in the sky back in February, and again in March. Both times they saw it on the 14th.

"I was taking the recycling out to the trash can, and I saw this blue light in the sky, and I thought, that's kinda bright to be a star, I've never seen a blue star be that bright," said Kelly Castruita.

"Watched it for about 10 minutes, just doing weird stuff, it would turn on and off and it would disappear," added Kelly's husband Jeff.

Neighbors said the blue light was about the size of a dime, and started off just above the skyline, and then migrated northwest.

"It pretty much flew, stopped, then started doing some upward motion and downward motion, so I've never seen anything like it," said neighbor Randy Gabriel.

"We'll see the police helicopters once in a while, or an airplane go by, but nothing like this," said Ricardo Pantoja, who has been living in the neighborhood for 23 years.

23ABC's Lindsey Adams took the videos to Senior Deputy Victor Keesey with the Kern County Sheriff's Department, whose office works closely in conjunction with neighboring Meadows Field Airport.

"I'm not aware of any calls that we've received regarding any blue lights, or strange lights in that area. Very seldom, if ever, have I seen anything like it. However, we are in the age of drones now, obviously we have military drones, but we have civilian drones now and drones for purchase, so that is a possibility," said Senior Deputy Victor Keesey.

"It looked way too high up in the sky to be a drone," mentioned witness Kelly Castruita.

"It wasn't a regular airplane or a drone, it was much bigger than what a drone would be, especially at that distance," added neighbor Ricardo Pantoja.

23ABC got in touch with public affairs at Edwards Air Force Base, and we were told they have not received any calls about the light, but officials mentioned it could be a possible aurora in the sky, or possible testing from Vandenberg. 

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4 Major UFO Sightings Caught On Camera & Still Unexplained By Open Minds, Aug 2016, UFO Sighting News

Here are four very interesting sightings that you might not have heard about. All have video evidence, and all have many witnesses, and have never been disproven. Awesome video, by Open Minds, and very enlightening. 
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www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

1. Bakersfield, California
In 2015 unidentified flying objects were spotted in the skies for a period of three months. 

2. Denver, Colorado
UFO's were seen at the mile city of Denver when one was caught on video by a local TV station.

3. Puerto Rico
The homeland security footage just might make you a believer.

4. Phoenix, Arizona 1997.

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MUFON Expert Is Oblivious To UFO During TV News Interview, April 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: April 15, 2016

Location of sighting: Southfield, Michigan, USA

News source: 

http://www.wxyz.com/news/ufo-hunters-investigate-strange-sightings-hundreds-reported-in-michigan-every-year

I was searching for UFO news and accidentally discovered a UFO behind a MUFON expert doing an interview in Michigan. The UFO is a round orb and holds its position over a small hill on the upper right side of the screen. I enlarged it and you can clearly see that its a round UFO orb, similar to the three UFO orbs that were on CNN during the Shuttle Atlantis landing delay years ago. 

 

This actually happens a lot. An expert is looking one way, and a UFO shows up behind them. Its happened to me when I had a camera on a tripod on an 8th floor roof, and suddenly saw it 3 meters from me, and during the 2 seconds it took me to flip the camera around, it shot 40 meters away (baseball size, translucent). So, I feel for the guy in the interview, and its a bit funny the News casters never even noticed it or anyone else in the city that watched the news cast on TV. One thing I believe is that alien evidence is all around us, but often we are too focused on ourselves to notice it. The truth is within our grasp.

Scott C. Waring

www.ufosightingsdaily.com

 

News states: 

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WXYZ) - Do UFOs exist? Many people say yes and many people say no. 

 

UFO hunters spend their time investigating to figure out the correct answer.

 

In our state, more than 300 strange sightings were reported to the Michigan Mutual UFO Network. The director, Bill Konkolesky, says hunters can identify about 80% of them, but the remaining 20% falls into the "unknown" category. 

 

“Some stuff could be experimental aircraft, other stuff seems like it must’ve come from somewhere else. Where it would’ve come from, we don’t know,” says Konkolesky. “I think there’s something going on here that’s a lot bigger than just us here on Earth. I’d love to wake up one day and have all the answers, but we’re not quite there yet.”

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2 linked UFOs over Wilmington, California 31-Jul-2016

Here’s one interesting footage of a two bright UFOs hovering in the night sky above Wilmington in California. This was seen and filmed on 31st July 2016.

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Bright UFO flying over Charlotte, North Carolina 10-Aug-2016

Check out this interesting footage of a bright unidentified flying object in the sky above Charlotte in North Carolina. This happened on 10th August 2016.

Witness report: 

There were bright lights that changed colors frequently on this vehicle. It hovered for a while, turned counterclockwise, then moved rapidly to the left and then back to the right.I had just gotten home from work and i happened to look up at the sky because it was getting late and i love to watch the sunset. Thats when i saw the object. There were bright lights that changed colors frequently on this vehicle. It hovered for a while, turned counterclockwise, then moved rapidly to the left and then back to the right. It descended fairly quickly. When I first saw it, it was so high up that I thought it was a plane but the colors were strange. Then it stopped moving so I definitely knew at that point that it was some type of ufo. I assumed it was a drone buy im still unsure. I did not see it land because it was far way. The guy who cuts our grass was there as well and he was shocked just like I was. He actually tried to get a better view once it descended by running into someones backyard but it was gone by that time.

Author (source: mufon)

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Uproar In The UFO/Alien Community After NASA Announces Its Plan To Shut Down ISS Live Stream For Good

NASA announcement that it is shutting down the live video feed of the International Space Station (ISS) forever has caused an uproar in the UFO and alien community. Many UFO researchers think that the decision is the last ditch effort to cover-up UFO evidence.

NASA published the announcement on its website on July 29 saying that NASA Television’s Space Station Live program will be phased out and discontinued in August and on September 1 respectively.

Some enthusiasts think that the move to shutting down the live stream would allow NASA to edit things rather than just take them out. They further noted that the people own those cams and that NASA has no right to deprive the public of knowing the truth out there.

An enthusiast commented that space agency tried the same thing before, but forced to put the live feed back online because the public had opposed the decision.

However, some believe that there was never a live feed and NASA just make it appear a live stream using CGI.

There are multiple reports of UFO sightings in the ISS live feed. In July, alien researchers claimed to have discovered a video recording featuring an astronaut who seems to mention the code word for aliens (gospel). Some viewers of the video think the astronaut is talking about an exopolitical meeting between astronauts and aliens.

Alien hunters also accused NASA of interrupting live transmissions each time UFOs appear on the video screen. Shutting down the live stream permanently, according to some UFO hunters, would save the space agency from the trouble of having to close down the live stream when a UFO appears.

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Strange activity in the sky above London

This video was filmed in February 2016 in the sky above London, United Kingdom.

Witness report:

We videoed this from our flat in ponders end, Enfield, London, UK.
At first glance you might think this object was a star if you didn’t know what your looking for, but it’s not, which I could see when I videoed with my tablet and was able to zoom in fully then I noticed what it is.
I was taking pics of it before from my mobile zooming then screen shooting then zooming again to see it up close. I showed people and some of them trying to tell me maybe its a helicopter, I told them I never seen a helicopter dismantle itself and reattach itself in mid air before have you? But a lot of people are more stunned at what we have filmed.

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How Often do Meteorites Hit the Earth?

Thousands of meteorites weighing about a pound are thought to fall to Earth every year, but many of these events go unnoticed, because the small rocks land in uninhabited forests or open ocean waters.

Credit: K. Paterson

Pieces of natural space debris — typically rocky shards of comets or asteroids — occasionally survive their journeys through Earth's atmosphere and strike the ground, but how often does an event like this actually occur? 

While large impacts are fairly rare, thousands of tiny pieces of space rock, called meteorites, hit the ground each year. However, the majority of these events are unpredictable and go unnoticed, as they land in vast swathes of uninhabited forest or in the open waters of the ocean, Bill Cooke and Althea Moorhead of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office told Space.com. 

In order to understand meteorite impacts on Earth, it is important to know where the chunks of rock come from. Meteoroids are rocky remnants of a comet or asteroid that travel in outer space, but when these objects enter Earth's atmosphere, they are considered meteors. [Photos: Fireball Drops Meteorites on California]

Most (between 90 and 95 percent) of these meteors completely burn up in the atmosphere, resulting in a bright streak that can be seen across the night sky, Moorhead said. However, when meteors survive their high-speed plunge toward Earth and drop to the ground, they are called meteorites. 

The Perseid meteor shower — one of the most popular meteor showers of the year — is expected to put on a particularly breathtaking show Aug. 11 and 12, when the Earth passes through the trail of debris created by Comet Swift-Tuttle. However, viewers should not expect to find any meteorites lying on the ground after this spectacular meteor shower. 

"Perseids come from Comet Swift-Tuttle and are very fragile, being an ice-dust mix," Cooke said. "They are not strong enough to survive passage through the atmosphere at 132,000 mph (212,433 km/h) and so never produce meteorites — they are totally vaporized by the time they make it to 50 miles (80 km) altitude." [Perseid Meteor Shower 2016: When & How to See It]

Unpredictable catastrophes 

Most meteorites that are found on the ground weigh less than a pound. While it may seem like these tiny pieces of rock wouldn't do much damage, a 1-lb. (0.45 kilograms) meteorite traveling upward of 200 mph (322 km/h) can fall through the roof of a house or shatter a car windshield. 

When the Grimsby meteorite landed in Ontario, Canada in 2009, for example, it broke the windshield of an SUV. In another incident, meteorites crashed into the back end of a Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, New York, in 1992, Cooke and Moorhead said. Thankfully, no one was injured during these events. 

However, the pieces of rock falling from the sky are not even the greatest concern regarding meteor impacts, Cooke said.

"What causes the most damage is the shock wave produced by the meteor when it breaks apart in [Earth's] atmosphere," Cooke said. "So, you don't have to watch for the falling rocks — you have to worry about the shockwave."

For example, the Chelyabinsk meteor — an asteroid the size of a six-story building that entered Earth's atmosphere in February 2013 over Russia — broke apart 15 miles (24 km) above the ground and generated a shock wave equivalent to a 500-kiloton explosion, Cooke said. It injured 1,600 people.

This is a sample of a meteorite that was found following the Chelyabinsk event in Russia in 2013. Several small stones were found in the area after the massive impact.

Credit: Qingzhu Yin, Univ. California-Davis

Another major collision was the Tunguska meteorite, which was larger than Chelyabinsk and 10 times more energetic. The meteorite exploded over the Tunguska River on June 30, 1908, and flattened 500,000 acres (2,000 square km) of uninhabited forest. Because of its remote location, the event is an example of a meteorite that would have gone undetected had it not been so large, Cooke and Moorhead explained. 

Generally, astronomers are unable to predict meteorite impacts, largely because meteoroids traveling in outer space are too small to detect. However, even large meteorite events that originate from asteroids, which can be tracked in space, are unpredictable. 

Fortunately, between 90 and 95 percent of meteors don't survive the fall through the Earth's atmosphere to produce meteorites, Moorhead explained. This is because most meteorites are believed to come from comets, which are more fragile than asteroids.

"Only those meteoroids that happen to be made of stronger material produce meteorites," she said. For example, "if the [meteoroid] is a chunk of an asteroid, instead of a chunk of a comet, it's likely to be a little denser, a little stronger and more likely to produce a meteorite." 

Also, if the meteor is approaching Earth at a slower speed, the rock will likely survive its collision with Earth's atmosphere, Moorhead added. In other words, the meteor will not burn up completely, and some remnant meteorites will fall to the ground. 

"We actually get a few meteorites from the moon and Mars," Moorhead said. "These [meteorites] are actually chucks of the moon and Mars that have been blown off those planets by impacts and then spent a long time in space before finally hitting Earth as a meteorite." 

Meteor :

Meteor showers can be awesome night sky sights, but how well do you know your shooting star facts? Find out here and good luck!

Although predicting these events is nearly impossible, there are a couple different ways in which researchers can measure how many meteorites fall to the Earth. For example, in uninhabited areas like the Sahara Desert or atop glaciers in Antarctica, it is fairly easy to find meteorites on the ground and date them based on the amount of weathering they've experienced, Moorhead explained. Because these areas are largely undisturbed, the meteorites that lie there provide scientists with a general idea of how many of the space rocks might have hit the Earth over a period of time.

While skywatchers will not be able to hunt for meteorites after this week's Perseids meteor shower, the dazzling trail left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle will provide spectacular light show, which can best be seen in clear skies of the Northern Hemisphere on the nights of Aug. 11 and 12. 

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Comet Swift-Tuttle: The Icy Parent of the Perseid Meteor Shower

Comet Swift-Tuttle, the source of the annual Perseid meteor shower, is seen in this false color view captured by astronomer Jim Scotti of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. Scotti took this image through a Spacewatch telescope at Kitt Peak on Nov. 24, 1992 during the comet's last close approach to Earth.

Credit: Images by Jim Scotti, University of Arizona

The spectacular Perseid meteor shower, peaking Thursday night (Aug. 11–12), lights up Earth's sky every summer as Earth passes through the trail left by Comet Swift-Tuttle, a miles-wide behemoth that swings by Earth every 133 years.

Swift-Tuttle, whose nucleus is 16 miles (26 kilometers) wide, is the largest solar system object to pass close to Earth repeatedly, NASA has said, and researchers once thought it was likely to hit Earth in 2126 — but the last time it passed Earth, in 1992, astronomers took more precise measurements and calculated that its next pass wouldn't be so dangerous after all.

"Its orbit passes very close to the Earth's orbit, so that it has been viewed as a hazardous object over the years," Paul Chodas, NASA's manager for the center of near-Earth object studies, told Space.com. "Now, we know its orbit very well, well enough to say that we are safe from an impact for many thousands of years." [Perseid Meteor Shower 2016: When & How to See It]

Astronomer Jim Scotti of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory remembers observing Comet Swift-Tuttle in 1992 (between late November and early December) through the lab's 36-inch Spacewatch telescope atop Kitt Peak. 

"That was a fun comet to observe," Scotti told Space.com. "It's hard to believe it was that long ago now."

Astronomer Jim Scotti captured this series of images of Comet Swift-Tuttle, the source of the annual Perseid meteor shower, between Nov. 25 and Dec. 1 in 1992 during the comet's last close approach to Earth.

Credit: Images by Jim Scotti, University of Arizona

Scotti tracked the comet over the course of nearly a week with the telescope. "It was relatively bright so it was fairly easy to observe."

Like all comets, sometimes called "dirty snowballs," Swift-Tuttle is a ball of dust, ice, rock and dark organic material. It was discovered in July 1862 independently by both Lewis Swift and Horace Parnell Tuttle. 

The comet orbits the sun, but follows a very steep incline as compared to the solar system planets — diving down into the solar system to whip around the sun and back out again. So when the comet passes Earth it's traveling at great speed, Chodas said.

Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle approaches Earth every 133 years during its oblique orbit around the sun. It last approached Earth in 1992, and will return in 2126. Its path of debris causes the annual Perseid meteor shower.

Credit: NASA/JPL

And its dust and debris, which create the Perseid meteor shower as they burn up in Earth's atmosphere, are traveling quickly, too — at around 37 miles (59 km) per second. And even though the comet only passes by Earth every 133 years, the meteor shower occurs every year when Earth moves through the trail of its orbit.

"The debris is coming in faster than many other comets because it's a very elongated orbit … so that makes the show a little more spectacular because of the speed," Chodas said.

For viewers in the Northern Hemisphere, the Perseids are one of the best meteor showers of the year — and NASA has called it the "fireball champion" of annual meteor showers for its record-breaking number of extra-bright meteors, called fireballs. Those fireballs are visible even in light-polluted areas like cities (still, there are many more faint meteors that are only visible if you go to a darker area).

This year, the peak will be more spectacular than usual, reaching 200 meteors an hour, because of the effect of Jupiter's gravityon the debris trail. That meteor increase, called an outburst, is irregular — researchers have only been able to predict their timing since the late 1990s, NASA meteor expert Bill Cooke told Space.com.

Shooting Stars, Meteors and Fireballs, Oh My!

https://youtu.be/TGvO634-TE0

Despite its brilliance, this year's conditions aren't ideal, because there's a bright, waxing moon in the sky around the shower's peak. So if you're planning to look Thursday night, wait until the constellation Perseus has risen and the moon has set (around 12-1 a.m. in most locations).

"Go to a sky that is as dark as possible, and then get comfortable, and dark-adapt your eyes and be patient — the average rate is something like one a minute, but some of them are faint," Chodas said. "Since they appear to radiate out of the constellation Perseus, which doesn't rise until late, this meteor shower is better seen in the wee hours of the morning when that constellation is higher in the sky."

And if you miss the meteor shower's peak, or want to look a few days early, don't worry — you can still see meteors before and after the peak.

"The meteor shower lasts several days, because it's a wide cloud of debris that the Earth is passing through," Chodas said.

Editor's note: If you have an amazing photo of this year's Perseid meteor shower you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery, please contact managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.

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Wow! Northern Lights Glow in Breathtaking Image from Space Station

The northern lights as seen from the space station over Quebec

Credit: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center

The bright, ethereal lights of the auroras. The surface of Earth, pockmarked with impact craters. A faint glow emanating from the planet's upper atmosphere. All of these amazing sights were captured in a single nighttime photograph taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

The photo was originally taken in February 2012, and included a glimpse of the space station, but NASA's Earth Observatory recently released a cropped, labeled version of the stunning scene.

The striking tableau represents a view from the International Space Station as it flew over Quebec, Canada. The astronaut was able to capture the bright streaks of light from the auroras as the orbiting outpost passed overhead. [Aurora Photos: See Breathtaking Views of the Northern Lights]

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are caused by the collision of charged particles with the Earth's atmosphere. When photographed from space, the natural light show — though still beautiful — is perhaps less overwhelming and more easily understood as an atmospheric phenomenon.

The photograph also shows a golden halo, known as airglow, around the rest of the planet. Airglow is another result of the interaction between the sun's radiation and Earth's atmosphere, according to NASA's Earth Observatory.

In addition to a wealth of natural sights, the photo shows the human footprint on the landscape. Artificial lights mark the locations of some northern settlements, including Labrador City and Goose Bay (both in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada), which are labeled in the newly released image.

Wintry conditions also make some features of the Quebec landscape visible 237 miles (382 kilometers) below. The ring-shaped Manicouagan crater was created by an asteroid impact 214 million years ago, according to the Earth Observatory. The massive crater measures 37 miles (60 km) across, and its outline is clearly visible in the lower third of the photograph.

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Jupiter's Effect Will Make Perseid Meteor Shower One to Remember

Perseid Meteor Shower to Ignite Across the Sky at Unusual Rate

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The Perseids, the most widely observed and dependable of the annual meteor displays, will peak during the overnight hours of Thursday, Aug. 11 into the morning of Friday, Aug. 12, and this year has all the earmarks of being a spectacular show.

First, there is the situation regarding the moon. At first glance, it appears that the viewing conditions aren't very good, as the peak night coincides with a waxing gibbous moon, 63-percent illuminated. Its bright light no doubt will wash out all but the very brightest of these swift streaks, which chiefly will emanate from out of the northeast part of the sky. However, there is some very good news: Early Friday morning (Aug. 12), the moon will set near 1:00 a.m. local time. Dawn breaks at about 4:20 a.m. around the mid-northern latitudes. Between those two times, there will be a nearly 3.5-hour "window" during which the sky will be totally dark.

Another reason the Perseids could put on a better-than-average show this year is a gravitational assist from Jupiter. [Perseid Meteor Shower 2016: When, Where & How to See It]

Perseid meteor shower time-lapse image

Credit: NASA

Comet bits

Most meteor showers evolve from comets. The cometary parent of the Perseids is a comet known as Swift-Tuttle. This comet takes approximately 130 years to make one trip around the sun. It was discovered in 1862 and last appeared in our skies in 1992. (It's due back in 2126.) Comets are composed chiefly of frozen gases, and meteoroids that are mixed in with that gas — the bits and pieces that have flaked off from the comet's solid center or nucleus.

Like all comets, Swift-Tuttle leaves behind streams of tiny particles ranging in size from large grains of sand to small pebbles, but with the consistency of cigar ash. They're invisible to people on Earth until, upon entering our atmosphere with immense velocity — 37 miles per second (60 kilometers per second) — they blaze up within the span of a heartbeat and streak across the sky in a brief, blazing finale. Comet Swift-Tuttle probably has passed the sun hundreds of times to produce the present stream of Perseid meteors.

The 2016 Perseid meteor shower will peak overnight on Aug. 11 and 12. They appear to radiate out of the constellation Perseus, from which they take their name.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The meteoroids have become distributed all around the comet's elongated elliptical orbit, which takes them out beyond the realms of Pluto and ultimately brings them back to intersect Earth's orbit at almost a right angle, producing a fairly predictable meteor display that lasts for several days in mid-August.

Enter Jupiter

Learn why famous meteor showers like the Perseids and Leonids occur every year [See the Full Infographic Here].

Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com contributor

The Perseids intersect the orbit of Earth more or less directly, but on their way in toward the sun, they also pass other planets. In the case of the most massive planet in the solar system, Jupiter, there is no direct encounter; the dross of Comet Swift-Tuttle passes well above this giant world, never coming any closer than about 160 million miles (257 million km) at 11.8-Earth-year intervals — the time it takes for Jupiter to make a complete orbit around the sun. 

But on those occasions when it's passing closest to Swift-Tuttle's trail of debris, Jupiter's powerful gravitational field can still slightly perturb the comet particles just enough to nudge them about 930,000 miles (1.5 million km) closer to Earth. The result is usually a noticeably brighter and stronger Perseid display, producing more than the usual complement of meteors.

Most years when the Earth encounters the Perseids, observers in areas where the sky is very dark and clear might count as many as 60 to 90 meteors per hour. (But here's a necessary disclaimer: If you live in an area where haze, smoke and bright city lights proliferate, or tall obstructions block large areas of the sky, you will likely see a lot fewer.)

When Jupiter has had an influence on the Perseid orbit, the meteor numbers tend to ramp up to above-normal levels. That's exactly what happened in 1921, 1945, 1968, 1980 and, most recently, in 2004.

As it turns out, Jupiter recently passed closest to the orbit of Comet Swift Tuttle in November 2014. But an additional 22 months must then pass for the meteoroid zone affected by Jupiter to arrive in the vicinity of Earth. That indicates that the 2016 Perseids could be another "prime year" for the Perseids; they could indeed prove to be unusually numerous. [Top 10 Perseid Meteor Shower Facts]

What do the Perseid pundits say?

In the 2016 edition of the "Observer's Handbook" of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Margaret Campbell-Brown and Peter Brown noted that, "Some models predict an enhancement in activity from the Perseids in 2016about 7 hours before the traditional peak, but this is from older trails unlikely to produce more than a moderate increase in rates." On their table of meteor showers for 2016, they highlighted the Perseids in bolddue to the possibility of this outburst.

The outburst in question is being forecast by French meteor expert Jeremie Vaubaillon. It shows the Earth moving along in its orbit and encountering a small, albeit concentrated, zone of comet material at around 1 a.m. EDT (0500 GMT) on Aug. 12 that would favor the eastern portions of the U.S. and Canada. But Vaubaillon is cautious. "This trail of material dates is over nine centuries old, making the forecast for a possible outburst less certain," he told me in an email. "Certainly I would look for it, but just keep in mind the uncertainties."

You can see a map charting that interaction here:

In this diagram, French astronomer Jeremie Vaubaillon has charted the interaction of the Earth through this year's stream of Perseid meteoroids. Earth's orbit is plotted in orange. Dates are indicated as Day/Month (Example 11/8 = 11 August at 0 hour UT). Notice the small "blob" of debris that directly encounters Earth's orbit at roughly 1 a.m. EDT (0500 GMT) on Aug. 12. Presumably, that material was shed by Comet Swift-Tuttle in A.D. 1079. If it's still intact, it might produce a sudden outburst of bright meteors. But if it has dispersed significantly, nothing out of the ordinary will be seen.

Credit: Jeremie Vaubaillon

Another noted meteor expert, Mikhail Maslov of Russia, forecasts higher-than-normal Perseid meteor rates: "In 2016, Jupiter will cause a significant increase up to 160-180 meteors per hour. Earth will encounter the perturbed part of the Perseid stream, which was shifted closer to the Earth's orbit by Jupiter's gravitation. This means we have to expect heightened Perseid activity." His complete description, including more technical details, can be found here: http://feraj.narod.ru/Radiants/Predictions/Perseids2016eng.html

The "clumping effect"

This year is an auspicious occasion for me, as it marks the 50th summer in which I have watched out for the Perseids. What I (and others) have noted over the years is what some have called the "clumping effect" — that the Perseids appear to come in rapid succession; several or more within a minute or two, followed by a lull of several minutes before the sky suddenly bears fruit once again. Interestingly, while many observers have stated that the Perseids seem to come in bunches, when hourly Perseid observations have been carefully examined using the Poisson distribution formula (explained in statistics textbooks), it has been determined that, more often than not, a random distribution of arrival times has been inferred. Therefore, the "clumping" or bunches may be merely an illusion.    

Have a Perseid party

Why not consider organizing a "Perseid party," and have a number of people watching different parts of the sky?

To observe the Perseids, you may need to dress warmly, bring a reclining chair and watch the sky. You need no other equipment. Find a dark observing spot, preferably with a low horizon, and look in any direction. Use this light-pollution map (http://tinyurl.com/zrk7qju) to find dark locations near you. 

The Perseids get their name from their apparent radiation from the northern constellation of Perseus. At dusk, the uppermost part of this star pattern is grazing the northern horizon. Not until 11 p.m. local time is this group high enough in the northeast to be conspicuous. At 4 a.m., when Orion has risen, Perseus has reached a lofty perch and is nearly overhead; that's also when you're likely to see the most meteors.

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But it is not necessary to continuously stare at Perseus itself if you are looking for these shooting stars. A Perseid may appear in any part of the sky, but its trail, if mentally traced backward, invariably leads back to Perseus. 

Typically, they appear as bright, swift streaks. A few outstandingly bright meteors (fireballs) occasionally may be seen. Fainter meteors appear white or yellow; brighter ones green, orange or red. About one-third leave luminous trains, which may be spectacular and can persist for many seconds; the most outstanding meteors often end in flares or bursts (called "bolides") and are even capable of casting shadows! Those are the kind of meteors that tend to elicit screams of delight from Perseid watchers.

You can also contribute valuable observational data. If you decide to do so, use the techniques suggested by the International Meteor Organization (IMO) (http://www.imo.net/visual/major). This way, your data will be in a standard format, which can readily be used for analysis. Send your data to the IMO athttp://www.imo.net/visual/report/electronic.

Good luck and here's to clear skies!

Editor's note: If you have an amazing photo of this year's Perseid meteor shower you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery, please contact managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.

Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the Farmer's Almanac and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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Death Dive! Comet Plunges into the Sun at Mind-Blowing Speed

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A comet with a death wish met a truly fiery end today (Aug. 4) when it was destroyed by the sun after diving toward the star at a truly jaw-dropping speed. It is one of the brightest sungrazing comet events in over two decades, one scientist says.

Video of the comet's death dive into the sun was captured by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) between Aug. 2 and Aug. 4. It shows the comet zooming toward the sun at nearly 373 miles per second (600 kilometers per second). That's a mind-boggling 1.34 million mph!

Comets like the one swallowed by the sun are known as Kreutz sungrazers, and are characterized by orbits that take them incredibly close to the sun. Kreutz comets are believed to be fragments from a single large comet that broke up into smaller pieces thousands of years ago when it got close to the sun and the ice binding it together evaporated.

"This is one of the brightest Kreutz sungrazers we've seen over the past 21 yrs. Awesome!" astronomer Karl Battams tweeted. Battams also said that the comet was the "fastest object in the solar system" when it was destroyed by the sun.

This animated image shows a sungrazing comet hurtling toward the sun at a mind-boggling 1.3 million mph as seen by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.

Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng

Battams, who operates the NASA-funded Sungrazing Comets Project, provided regular updates on the sungrazer's recent encounter with the sun, which ended with the comet being vaporized.

"This comet didn't fall into the sun, but rather whipped around it – or at least, it would have if it had survived its journey," Sarah Frazier of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland wrote in a statement. "Like most sungrazing comets, this comet was torn apart and vaporized by the intense forces near the sun."

You can see another video of the comet from SOHO here. The view also includes a view from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (another sun-watching spacecraft) as the moon crossed in front of the sun as seen by the observatory.

Kreutz comets travel along what is called the Kreutz path, a single orbit that takes 800 years to complete. Kreutz comets pass by the sun and disintegrate almost every day, and while most go unnoticed, larger fragments such as the recent sungrazer can be spotted more easily, according to Spaceweather.com.

SOHO has been keeping a close eye on the sun's activity for more than 20 years. The satellite is a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency. While the mission's intended goal was to better predict space weather — such as solar flares and auroras — the satellite has made several discoveries about the sun and spotted thousands of these sungrazer comets.

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How a 1967 Solar Storm Nearly Led to Nuclear War

Frightening false alarm

The storm began brewing on May 18, 1967, when researchers noticed a big group of sunspots with strong magnetic fields clumped on one part of the solar disk.

Sunspots — dark, relatively cool areas on the sun's surface — serve as launching pads for powerful bursts of high-energy radiation known as solar flares, as well as eruptions of solar plasma called coronal mass ejections (CMEs), which almost always accompany strong flares.

Intense flares that hit Earth can disrupt radio transmissions and satellite communications, among other effects. Earth-directed CMEs can be even more damaging; big ones can spawn "geomagnetic storms" that blow out transformers in power grids, for example.

On May 23, 1967, the sun fired off a flare so powerful that it was visible to the naked eye, and began emitting radio waves at a level that had never been seen before, study team members said.

Notes on the region of the sun where the May 1967 solar flare occurred, from May 18, 20, 21, 23, and 28.

Credit: National Solar Observatory historical archive

That same day, all three of the Air Force's Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radar sites in the far Northern Hemisphere — which were located in Alaska, Greenland and the United Kingdom — appeared to be jammed.

Air Force officials initially assumed that the Soviet Union was responsible. Such radar jamming is considered an act of war, so commanders quickly began preparing nuclear-weapon-equipped aircraft for launch. (These newly scrambled aircraft would have been "additional forces," according to the study authors; the U.S. kept nuke-bearing "alert" planes aloft pretty much continuously throughout the 1960s.)

"This is a grave situation," Knipp said. "But here's where the story turns: Things were going horribly wrong, and then something goes commendably right."

Those additional forces never launched. So what happened? Solar forecasters at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) — a joint U.S.-Canadian effort that looks out for incoming missiles and other possible threats — and elsewhere figured out that the flare, not the Soviets, had disrupted the radars. (The U.S. military had begun keeping tabs on solar activity, and its effects on Earth, in the 1950s; by 1967, NORAD was getting daily updates on the subject, study team members said.)

Knipp and her colleagues think this information made it in time to Air Force commanders and other high-ranking officials — including, perhaps, President Lyndon Johnson.

"Oftentimes, the way things work is, something catastrophic happens, and then we say, 'We should do something so it doesn't happen again,'" Morris Cohen, an electrical engineer and radio scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, said in the same statement. "But in this case, there was just enough preparation done just in time to avert a disastrous result," added Cohen, who was not involved in the new study.

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A solar superstorm

The flare on May 23, 1967, was accompanied by a CME, which hit Earth about 40 hours later. (CMEs travel through space at millions of miles per hour — fast, but not nearly as fast as solar-flare radiation, which, of course, moves at the speed of light.)

The CME triggered a powerful geomagnetic storm, which disrupted American radio communications for nearly a week, study team members said. This storm also ramped up the northern lights, making them visible as far south as New Mexico.

"As a magnetospheric disturbance, the 25-26 May event ranks near the top in the record books," Knipp and her colleagues wrote in the new study, which has been accepted for publication in the journal Space Weather.

You can read the abstract of the paper for free here.

The top spot in the record books, incidentally, likely belongs to the famous Carrington Event of September 1859. That geomagnetic storm caused telegraph systems to fail all over North America and Europe, and the northern lights were visible as far south as the Caribbean.

A Carrington-like storm today would likely be devastating, given how much more dependent the world is on technological infrastructure such as power grids and satellite networks, experts have said.

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Bacteria Could Aid Search for Creatures On Other Planets

Massive composite stromatolites from Carbla Province.

Credit: Erica Suosaari

Could there be a way to find bacterial structures on another planet? And if so, how important might these bacteria be in making a planet life-friendly? These are some of the questions that could be answered through studies onstromatolites, which are mounds of calcium-carbonate rock that are built up through lime-secreting cyanobacteria (bacteria that use photosynthesis for energy).

The research into the life-giving potential of these "living fossils" is based on small microbes in Australia, but the results could help us identify fossil evidence of life on other planets, in particular Mars, said Erica Suosaari, a science fellow for Bush Heritage Australia, a non-profit conservation and land management organization. Suosaari is based at Hamelin Station Reserve, Western Australia, a 500,000-acre property that borders one of the world's most diverse and abundant examples of marine stromatolites, the Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve. 

"Looking for evidence of life in the rocks is like finding a needle in the haystack," wrote Suosaari in an e-mail. "If stromatolites have definitive bio-signatures — such as self organized morphologies that are indicative of life processes — then it may be possible to look for that 'signature' in rocks on the surface of other planets and significantly reduce the size of that haystack." [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life] 

Bands of seif stromatolites at low tide located in Booldah Province on the southwestern margin of Hamelin Pool.

Credit: Pamela Reid

A paper based on Suosaari's research at Hamelin Pool entitled "New multi-scale perspectives on the stromatolites of Shark Bay, Western Australia," was published in the journal Scientific Reports earlier this year. 

Funding for the collaborative research was provided by a consortium of oil companies (Chevron, Shell, Repsol and BP) who are interested in modern microbial carbonate environments to develop models for subsurface reservoirs and source rocks. Additional support for genomics analyses was provided by the Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology element of the NASA Astrobiology Program.

Composite stromatolites from Carbla Province.

Credit: Pamela Reid

Learning more about ancient structures

On Earth, microbial communities responsible for creating stromatolites were essential in making the planet life-friendly. These stromatolite-forming cyanobacteria were the first living organisms to generate energy from the Sun using photosynthesis while creating oxygen as a byproduct. Over billions of years, cyanobacteria have changed Earth's atmosphere from 1 percent oxygen to more than 20 percent oxygen, a composition that has allowed complex life evolve.

Suosaari's research zeroes in on the stromatolites of Hamelin Pool, the most abundant and diverse modern assemblage of these microbial structures, which dominate nearly the entire 135 km of the coastline. Previous research into stromatolites identified them by the types of microbial mats colonizing the surface of the structure, a direct response of where the stromatolite resides in the tidal zone. Each lamination recorded in the stromatolite is thereby a record of a former surface mat. Her team instead classified stromatolites by their shape, revealing that certain shapes prefer to cluster in certain areas of the pool. Their investigation also showed that modern stromatolites have more in common with ancient stromatolites than previously thought.

"Modern marine stromatolites are often regarded as poor analogs of ancient stromatolites as a result of their grainy internal textures, which contrast with the fine grained nature of most ancient stromatolites," Suosaari said. 

Elongate nested stromatolites colonized by pustular mat in the Spaven Province on the western margin of Hamelin Pool.

Credit: Pamela Reid

By contrast, her team found out that in Hamelin Pool, the microbial communities commonly produce a fine-grained limestone known as micrite (microcrystalline calcite) creating stromatolite structures that are similar to the ancient stromatolites seen in the fossil record.

Furthermore, the stromatolite types in Hamelin Pool are dominated by a coccoid cyanobacterium that traces its lineage back 2 billion years to an ancient form of this cyanobacteria, called Eoentophysalis. This provides yet another similarity back to ancient times, Suosaari said. This means that standing along the shorelines of Hamelin Pool and gazing out onto the stromatolites, we are essentially looking through a window to early Earth at microbes of the same ancient lineage, pumping out oxygen and continuing to undertake processes that have been happening for billenia. There is not another place on the planet where this can be observed at such a scale.

Elongate nested stromatolites colonized by smooth mat in the Spaven Province on the western margin of Hamelin Pool. Taken from the boat on a flat-calm day.

Credit: Erica Suosaari

Applications for Mars

The stromatolites studied were in a small region of Australia, but Suosaari said that as a whole, similar microbial communities could potentially be exported to other places — such as Mars — to make other locations in the Solar System more life-friendly to humans.

Suosaari said she thought of stromatolites when reading about SpaceX founder Elon Musk's plans to bring life to the planet Mars. She suggested that because these stromatolite-building microbial communities produce oxygen, they could potentially make the Red Planet more life-friendly.

"Obviously with Elon Musk's plans, we don't have billions of years to shape the atmosphere if he is planning to move life there in the coming years, and Mars has less than 1 percent of the atmosphere of Earth," she acknowledged. "But I begin to think about photosynthesizing microbial mats and how they have prevailed for billions of years; it's a kind of resilience and longevity that our species hasn't yet achieved. Perhaps we should look to these microbial communities to generate oxygen on the Red Planet at a small scale."

This story was provided by Astrobiology Magazine, a web-based publication sponsored by the NASA astrobiology program. Follow Space.com@Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+.

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‘CIA Allowed Me To Go Inside An Alien UFO Spacecraft At Area 51’: Senior Canadian Official’s Death Bed Confession [Video]

US NAVY sent to explore ALIEN MEGASTRUCTURE in Atlantic Ocean !!!

July 2016 - Atlantic ocean. Leaked video from US Navy shows military forces sent to explore alien megastructure reported in the middle of Atlantic ocean .

 

 

In Invisible Residents: The Reality of Underwater UFOs (1970), renowned zoologist, Ivan T. Sanderson hypothesized that an advanced aquatic non-human civilization may have evolved right here on the Earth. This parallel, aquatic civilization could be twice as old as mankind, Sanderson proposes, and may well have developed space flight long before us. Sanderson even goes as far as suggesting that such a civilization could be behind many of the mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda triangle as well as UFO sightings. Interestingly, more recently Sanderson’s ideas have been echoed somewhat in Mac Tonnies’ last book before his untimely passing in 2009 The Cryptoterrestrials. 

 

 

While the ETH or extraterrestrial hypothesis has become synonymous with the UFO phenomenon in popular culture, many serious UFO researchers give the cryptoterrestrial hypothesis equal kudos. There are plenty of USO (Unidentified Submerged Object) reports and many UFO sightings where an object is seen over water, so who knows? And as the saying goes, we arguably know less about the deep ocean than we do about the Moon or Mars.”

 

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Buiten de baan van Neptunus bevindt zich een ongeïdentificeerd object dat niemand kan verklaren

Vondst 2000 jaar oude magische spreuken stelt archeologen voor raadsel

In Servië proberen archeologen magische spreuken op kleine zilveren en gouden rolletjes te ontcijferen. De rolletjes zijn gevonden bij 2000 jaar oude skeletten.

“Het alfabet is Grieks, dat is duidelijk,” zei hoofdarcheoloog Miomir Korac. “De taal is Aramees. Dit is een mysterie voor ons.”

De skeletten zijn ontdekt bij een enorme elektriciteitscentrale in Kostolac in het noordoosten van Servië. Er worden opgravingen in het gebied verricht voordat kan worden begonnen met de bouw van een tweede centrale op de resten van de oude Romeinse stad Viminacium.

Demonen

Eén van de rolletjes (archeologisch instituut Belgrado)

Vorige week stuitte het team van Korac op twee amuletten die kleine zilveren en gouden rolletjes met symbolen en letters bleken te bevatten. De archeologen menen dat het om magische spreuken gaat.

“We zijn de namen tegengekomen van enkele demonen die verbonden zijn met het gebied waar nu Syrië ligt,” zei archeoloog Ilija Dankovic. Het is goed mogelijk dat het mysterie rond de kwetsbare rolletjes nooit helemaal zal worden ontrafeld, schrijft The Guardian.

Meer tijd

Vroeger kregen vooral personen die een gewelddadige dood stierven spreuken mee in het graf. Men geloofde destijds dat de ziel van dergelijke personen meer tijd nodig had om rust te vinden en ze zonder de spreuken sneller in de handen van demonen terecht zouden komen.

Het is voor het eerst dat dergelijke voorwerpen in Servië zijn gevonden, hoewel ze lijken op amuletten die in andere landen zijn ontdekt, aldus de krant.

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Las Vegas UFO reported hiding in cloud

A Nevada witness at Las Vegas reported watching a white, triangle-shaped object in the afternoon sky, according to testimony in Case 78272 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was driving southbound along Las Vegas Boulevard near the Blue Diamond intersection about 3:45 p.m. on August 3, 2016, when the incident occurred.

The object stopped in mid-air while the witness watched on August 3, 2016, near the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Blue Diamond, pictured.

(Credit: Google)

“Had just left a work meeting,” the witness stated.“There were clouds all over the valley that afternoon, some of them really big puffy clouds, some grayer clouds, some thinner clouds, but also lots of sun.”

Lightning caught the witnesses’ eye.

“I noticed a lightning bolt which I don’t see very often in Vegas directly south several miles. That drew my attention to a white object moving toward the north and to my left – basically over Henderson and 10 degrees to the southeast from my southerly direction.”

The object appeared to be triangular or crescent in shape. Pictured: Las Vegas Boulevard at Blue Diamond intersection.

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The witness watched the object.

“It was moving through the clouds. It then stopped in mid-airmaybe a couple of miles up, as a complete guess. I thought that seemed strange. It was smaller than an airplane. My first thought was maybe it’s a helicopter. But it was solid looking, no rotor and all white. The white didn’t appear to be from any lights or from sun reflection as best I could tell. It was somewhat triangular-shaped, but really it was more crescent-shaped that, instead of being rounded off, came to a point at its head.”

The witness considered known objects.

“Next thought – it must be a drone. Then the object started flying from its midair stop to next moving from my left to my right and moving directly west. At this point, I was still thinking it’s a drone. It was sort of moving erratically, but not particularly fast. It stopped near one of the large puffy clouds for a moment and now positioned off to my right. Maybe over the Southern Highlands area 10 degrees to the southwest from my southerly direction. I was at this point parked near my home.”

The object then began to move away.

“Then suddenly, the object slowly moved directly into that big cloud. I waited around outside for several minutes to see if I could spot it again, but was unable to and it was a tad bit hot out! But it was an unusual looking object that stopped in midair, flew a somewhat erratic pattern, and then seemed to intentionally go directly into a cloud. The whole sequence maybe lasted 10 minutes.”

The object moved into a cloud and disappeared. Pictured: Las Vegas Boulevard at Blue Diamond intersection.

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Nevada MUFON is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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RODE BARON SCHOOT UFO NEER TIJDENS DE EERSTE WERELDOORLOG

Velen zullen de bijnaam van de legendarische Duitse piloot Manfred von Richthofen uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog kennen. 

Naar nu blijkt, heeft deze man niet alleen 80 vijandige vliegtuigen uit de lucht geschoten, maar was nummer 81 een UFO die vervolgens een noodlanding moest maken. 

Bovengenoemd verhaal is naar buiten gebracht door de Duitse Bild. 

Aangezwengeld door een boek dat geschreven is door Nigel Watson, getiteld: “The UFO’s of the First World War”.

In dat boek komt een verhaal voor dat zou zijn verteld door een collega (wingman) van Von Richthofen, Peter Waitzrick. 

Het is 13 maart 1917 als Manfred von Richthofen, commandant van Jasta 11, een vroege ochtendpatrouille uitvoert boven het westen van Frankrijk. Hij vertrekt van een vliegveld in België samen met zijn wingman Peter Waitzrik. 

De twee zijn niet alleen op een verkenningsmissies, maar ook op zoek naar geschikte prooi. In plaats daarvan krijgen ze echter op een gegeven moment een UFO in het vizier met een diameter van zo'n 125 meter. 

Omdat ze nog nooit zo iets hebben gezien, denken ze dat ze te maken hebben met een nieuw Amerikaans wapen. Volgens Waitzrick was het object zilverkleurig en had het de vorm van een klassieke retro vliegende schotel. 

De baron, die volgens het verhaal in de bekende rode Fokker driedekker vliegt, zoekt een positie zodat hij kan aanvallen met de zon in de rug en er minder kans is dat hij wordt gezien. 

Waitzrick: “Wij waren doodsbang. We hadden nog nooit eerder zoiets gezien”.

Vraag niet hoe het kan, maar klaarblijkelijk slaagt Von Richthofen erin om de UFO zodanig te raken dat deze wordt gedwongen om een noodlanding te maken. Na de landing zien de vliegers enkele buitenaardsen richting het bos rennen.

Fascinerend verhaal en volgens de alom bekende ufoloog Scott Waring is het mogelijk dat Von Richthofen de antenne boven op de koepel geraakt zou kunnen hebben, waardoor het technische gezien mogelijk is dat het schip onbestuurbaar werd. 

Dit heeft hij dan weer gehaald uit de informatie zoals die door Bob Lazar naar buiten is gebracht. Een wetenschapper die jarenlang in het beroemde Area 51 heeft gewerkt en waarover wij eerder een artikel schreven. 

Dit verhaal is niet alleen te vinden bij de Bild, maar bijvoorbeeld ook in Oostenrijkse publicaties waarin wordt gesteld dat Waitzrick pas heel laat met die informatie naar buiten is gekomen omdat hij niets wist van buitenaardse ruimteschepen op aarde. 

Volgend voorjaar is die gebeurtenis precies 100 jaar geleden en dat betekent uiteraard dat Peter Waitzrick niet meer in leven is. 

Dus gaan we op zoek naar meer informatie over deze Peter Waitzrick en proberen uit te vinden wanneer en tegen wie hij dit verhaal verteld zou hebben. Dat moet dan jaren geleden zijn, want als hij ten tijde van de gebeurtenis 25 jaar oud was, dan zou hij nu bijna 125 geweest zijn. 

Er blijkt helemaal niets bekend te zijn over deze Peter Waitzrick. Hij is niet terug te vinden op lijsten van piloten van de Jasta squadrons en verder schijnt niemand iets over hem te weten. 

Wat we wel vinden in een krantenartikel uit 1999 waar dit verhaal voor het eerst wordt gepubliceerd.

Het stond dus in een krant van 31 augustus 1999, dus zal het wel waar zijn. 

Behalve als die krant de Telegraaf heet of Weekly World News want dan heb je te maken met een soort Fabeltjeskrant. 

The Weekly World News was a largely fictional news tabloid published in the United States from 1979 to 2007, renowned for its outlandish cover stories often based on supernatural or paranormal themes and an approach to news that verged on the satirical. 

Waar we dus mee te maken hebben is een soort Amerikaanse Speld. Heel amusant, maar allemaal fabeltjes. Voor wie toch publicaties zoals Weekly World News wil geloven: 

De rode Fokker driedekker waarin de Rode Baron die dag zou hebben gevlogen werd pas in oktober 1917 voor het eerst aan de Duitse Jasta’s geleverd.

De teller voor Manfred Von Richthofen blijft dan ook op 80 steken.

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Giant Disk Near Earths Sun On NASA Image, video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: April 2016
Location of sighting: Earths sun
NASA source photo:

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This UFO was found in the SOHO/NASA index by Streetcap1 of Youtube. The UFO shows a dome on top and bottom, with a wide disk like edges that get thinner at their ends. This is why I believe it to be a giant disk. There is also smaller UFOs moving around the top area of the smaller one. 
Scott C. Waring
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Streetcap1 states:

Come on NASA what are these?

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UFO Hiding In Cloud Shoots Out Smaller UFOs Over Belgium, July 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: July 28, 2016
Location of sighting: Belgium

UFOs are often seen during sunsets, as you see in the video below. In the video we see a long UFO stick out from the top of the cloud and shoot out smaller orbs that move away in pairs. I have seen this exact same thing happen with a giant UFO cloud over a Russia freeway about 5 years ago. It also had several orbs shoot out, but no one else noticed it but me back then. 

This cloud is glowing too much, more than a normal cloud, which shows that there is some reflective metallic material inside the cloud that causes it to light up from inside. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

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Not-so-little green man: Alien face seen in the Northern Lights

He said: ‘I can’t describe with words what I feel when I see the Northern lights, but in my opinion it is the most amazing phenomenon we can witness.

‘I wish everybody could see it at least once in their life.

Snapped: Landscape photographer Iurie Belegurschi captured the sighting by chance in the spectacular Reykjanes peninsula of Iceland

‘I didn’t see the alien face during shooting, but when I came home I checked my photographs on the computer and I saw it! It’s unbelievable, I couldn’t believe my eyes.’

The 29-year-old native Moldovan used a Canon 5D Mark III to shoot the spectacle.

Self-taught Iurie moved to Iceland in 2006 to follow his biggest passion, the Northern Lights.

He is now waiting for the solar max in 2013-2014 to capture more aurora activity.

VIDEO: Alien Image captured in Northern Lights?

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UFOlogy’s Fatal Flaw

Sitting on my shelf next to my computer is an array of dog-eared books and white papers, that I had as a kid on space, robots and UFO’s—nostalgic reminders of the exciting ideas that whisked my mind away to other places and other possibilities. As I became more educated and experienced in our little sliver of the Universe I realized that a grave injustice is being waged in UFOlogy. Please consider the following carefully. It is an excellent starting point to make yourself impervious to UFOlogy nonsense.

Human beings are obsessed with the possibility of life on other planets. Countless movies, books, and television shows are centered around alien civilizations, and there is an entire subculture of people devoted to the idea that aliens not only exist, but have already visited our planet for the inexplicable purpose of livestock mutilation and the molestation of the barely-literate. Up to 90% of all UFO/Alien cases can immediately be thrown out due to the extreme improbability that they could and would never happen. Take for example the fact that almost all UFO cases that are reported involve humanoid aliens.

Three things are generally intrinsic about human beings:

1. We think we know everything. Who says we are intelligent at all.

2. We think everything is about us.

3. We need things to be about us in order to care.

Thus, in most of our stories about aliens, the aliens come because of us (be it to kill, enslave, or steal our women) or to take resources that are dear to us.  Never mind the gaunt, nearly skeletal figure with the long talons and the scorpion-like tail and the mouth full of razor teeth. Never mind the little green or gray men with oversize craniums and oversize eyes and tiny mouths. Never mind the cat-men or lizard-men or dog-men or people with blue skin and strange, tattoo-like markings or odd brow ridges or pointier ears. Why would an alien look that similar to us?

I blame movies and TV for such unimaginative insights into what is possible in the Universe. I also blame the sorry state of education in science. In science fiction movies and TV shows, intelligent aliens are usually the same basic shape as humans: two arms, two legs and a head. But why would creatures that evolved on a completely different planet look so similar to us?

The truth is, aliens tend to look like us in science fiction for a couple of basic reasons: budget, and relatability. When it comes to film and TV, it’s problematic to make a race of aliens that does not resemble humans. Actors have to play these roles. What aliens look like in the real world will depend on where they evolved. An alien that evolved in interstellar space would have very different needs from an alien that evolved on an Earthlike planet.

“Most aliens in SF are humanoid because humans produce SF,” says Michael H. New, an Astrobiology Discipline Specialist at NASA. “While we are interested in the ‘other,’ our conception of otherness is often limited.”

Most if not all Exobiologists firmly agree that aliens would not look at all like humans. For example, life that evolved elsewhere would look totally different from us — and in fact, if you “reran the tape” from the beginning of life on Earth, you wouldn’t end up with humans on this planet either. The emergence of humanoids on Earth is a totally random event that was a fluke, even with the exact conditions that we arose from.

We have to contemplate the nature of a life form that has evolved on a completely separate planet. Even that statement is limiting. Life may be able to evolve on moons, nebula, or on planets that are bombarded with strange sources of radiation. They may exist and function on different time scales based on the gravity that they evolved in. Special relativity makes for very strange bedfellows. It is possible that they could be here already just beyond our perceptual ability. There truly is more things in heaven and earth then is dreamed in our collective philosophy.

It is intellectual ignorance to think the nucleotides A.G.C.T. are the only alphabet lettersof life. Assuredly the letters, language, and syntax of life will be unknown to us. Truly alien. That is what would be expected by isolated evolution.

But that is not what we are seeing in UFOlogy.  The overwhelming consensus of alien reports in the media and in first hand accounts predominantly highlight humanoid type aliens. Aliens that are structurally similar to our construction is what is usually reported. They may be grey, blue, green, scaled, tall or short, but a humanoid nonetheless.

Consider that on our planet our human physical form is the same one that we share with the great apes. Humans and the other great apes only account for less than a dozen different types of species. We share the humanoid form with our closest primate brothers but that is essentially it. Interestingly Mother Earth has an estimated 8.7 million species with still up to 80% still to be found, according to Nature magazine. So the percentage of life forms on Earth that are humanoid in form only accounts for 0.0000003793% of all currently known life. By any measure and consideration that is an impossibly small number. So the logical conclusion to draw is that the humanoid form is exceedingly rare even on Earth.

So what really is the odds that a alien race would evolve on a different planet then us, find us in the vastness of space, in this sliver of time, and look anything like us? It would be a probability that so infinitesimally small that it would be in the ballpark of a googolplex raised to the power of a googolplex to one. That is a number a thousand orders of magnitude larger than the total amount of elementary particles (2.5 x 10^89) in the entire Universe. Just think about that for a moment.

Now if we think of different planetary systems, the environment, chemistry and the strength of forces there might not have any resemblance to Earth at all. I would go as far as to say, we do not even have a rigorous definition of what constitutes a “living system”. But for beings with “intelligence” to understand and explore the universe, give them a few million years of evolutionary head start than humans (which is insignificant by universal time scales) and they would do all sorts of things which we cannot even start contemplating. They might not even restrict their “consciousness” to their original physical bodies and found out ways to immortalize themselves through machine entities, preserve and operate the “brain” without any bodily requirement and discovered novel ways of “reproduction”.  Although not well-regarded for their wits as individuals, the remarkable “hive minds” of bees and ants could point to another manner in which alien intelligence arises — across many individuals acting collectively, rather than as discrete beings.

With the immense grandeur of the Universe still only scratched by our limited intellect makes us a very uninformed species. Life  we truly encounter it will not be a mutated version of ourselves. It will be more strange, unexpected and probably terrifying to our primate brains. If you look at all the cases in modern UFOlogy you will soon realize that almost all of them have humanoid type aliens. You can immediately discard them as wish fulfillment or down right delusional.

I understand that the ideas in this article are the equivalent to intellectual heresy in the UFO field and represent a major flaw in modern UFOlogy. This major failing can be fixed by using critical thinking when assessing a UFO report. For UFOlogy to regain respectability it must appeal and make sense to the non-true believers. We must strive to eliminate the giggle factor and drive toward sense and sensibility.  A good first step in that intellectual crusade is to know humanoid aliens are nearly impossible in probability.

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UFO Over Gateway Arch in St. Louis Still Unsolved

 Paul Seaburn

A cell phone video and surveillance camera footage of a UFO hovering over the famous Gateway Arch straddling the Mississippi River in St. Louis have been traveling around the Internet and media sites for nearly a week with no explanation yet. Do aliens take summer vacation road trips? Would you recognize one in the crowds at Disneyworld?

According to various St. Louis media sites, Chase Rhoads, an “independent cleaning consultant” at the Casino Queen (“Home of the Loosest Slots!”) in East St. Louis (that’s on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River) was on his smoke break at around 2:30 am on August 2nd when he saw something strange over the arch.

I’ve been out there for a little over a month now and I’ve never seen anything above that arch. I was sitting on my break just smoking a cigarette as normal and looked at the arch and the strobe light appeared. It just appeared.

Rhoads has the presence of mind (and desire for fame) to record the blinking UFO and send it to a local TV station which showed it on a news report. That prompted an unnamed quick-thinking employee at the Malcolm W Martin Memorial Park (“Home of the Gateway Geyser and the Mississippi River Overlook!”), also in Illinois, to check the surveillance footage from its Gateway Arch camera (“Best View of the Loosest Slots!”) and found five minutes of footage of the same UFO.

Not wanting to pass up a good marketing opportunity, park officials posted the video on their Facebook page (“We guarantee you will be perplexed if you watch all 5 minutes of this surveillance footage!”) where speculations on what it might be piled up (“Home of the Best Comments on the Gateway Arch UFO!”)

As of this writing, there have been no confirmed explanations of the UFO. Spokespersons from the FAA and the nearby Scott Air Force Base say it’s not theirs.

There are a few interesting things about this UFO. The park camera got a clear shot and also showed a second light descending. It’s not the first UFO captured by that park’s surveillance camera. On July 14 2016, it reportedly recorded a daytime UFO, although no other information or the video seem to be available. Mike Buehlhorn, director of the Metro East Parks and Recreation District, commented on the August 2nd UFO:

There’s something weird with that one.

What struck him as weird? He didn’t say, but Chase Rhoads agreed.

It’s definitely odd, to be dead center over a national monument like that. If that was the White House, people would be all over that.

If it’s aliens, they’ve probably already visited the White House. Why go there again when you can visit the “Home of the Loosest Slots” instead?

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