UFO Over Winter Park, Colorado Caught On Live Cam, Nov 22, 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 22, 2016
Location of sighting: Winter Park, Colorado, USA
Source: MUFON #80568

A UFO was spotted over a hill in Colorado yesterday. The web camera caught a black UFO moving over or from the mountain top. The UFO is low to keep out of sight, but was it coming from a base below this area is the real question. The UFO is in this are for a reason, and Colorado is a hotbed for alien activity along its mountains. 
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

I was monitoring the Winter Park, CO, ski resort town web camera (for my job -- we do operational cloud seeding for the resort to increase snow pack and use the cameras to monitor weather conditions). The frames update about every 3 mins, to my knowledge. In one frame, there was nothing but the normal view. Next frame, black disk-like object appears just over mountain top. Next frame, nothing. Too close to the mountain to be a drone or plane. Confirmed with the resort that there were no helicopters present this morning. Given the distance/size of object, it is unlikely that it was a bird, bug, etc. My colleagues and I have been using this webcam for years and this has never occurred before.

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Teenager records UFO moving across sky following Japanese earthquake, Nov 22, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 22, 2016
Location of sighting: Fukushima, Japan

This UFO was a definite sign that aliens are involved with the catastrophes around the world. There are three main hypothesis about what they are doing: 

1. Monitoring and watching human reactions to problems.
2. Causing the problems to gather energy, opening deep caverns the size of cities underground...
3. Trying to contain as much of the damage as they can, for instance a meteor over Russia suddenly exploded before hitting a big city back in 2013...it seems to have been destroyed midair to prevent a explosive on the ground that scientists say would have been equal to 500 kilotons of TNT or 29 atomic bombs. 

Scott C. Waring

News states:

Teenager films 'meteorite' UFO burning across sky following Japanese earthquake The teenager, 16, from Japan, filmed the extraordinary sight trailing across the evening sky this evening The video emerged as the country absorbed the 7.3 magnitude earthquake that has shaken Tokyo after striking off the coast of Japan. Early reports said a tsunami warning had been issued after the incident off the coast of Fukushima, the site of the recent nuclear catastrophe. United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the quake hit Namie, Futaba District, Fukushima.

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Australia Joins The Hunt For Aliens With A Huge Dish Telescope

Scientists in Australia are aiming a huge dish telescope at Proxima Centauri, one of our close solar neighbors, joining the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star a mere 4.25 light years from us, where an Earth-like planet ― dubbed Proxima b ― is believed in orbit. Proxima b may have temperatures that could allow liquid water to exist there, scientists speculate.

The next logical jump is speculation that Proxima b may be habitable.

The Parkes Radio Telescope (pictured below) in New South Wales will lend a hand, er, dish to the mix, scanning for radio frequencies that might originate from unknown civilizations in space, reports the Aussie Network News.

This photo, taken in 1969, shows the telescope as it was around the time of the first manned Moon landing. CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope was officially opened on the 31 October 1961 by the Governor-General, Viscount De L'Isle forty years on, it is still one of the most advanced telescopes of its kind. A gigantic structure of steel and concrete, the telescope soars nearly 55 metres into the sky near Parkes NSW. It played a crucial role in receiving signals during the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969, relaying them for broadcast to an audience of 600 million around the world.

This is Australia’s first collaboration with Breakthrough Listen, a 10-year, $100 million global effort to actively search for intelligent alien life, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization confirmed.

As reported by The New York Times, Breakthrough Listen was launched in 2015 by billionaire tech investor Yuri Milner. The project’s international supporters include renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, astronomer Frank Drake, who founded California’s SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), Cambridge University’s Lord Martin Rees, and Ann Druyan, co-author of the “Cosmos” television programs and widow of astronomer Carl Sagan.

The Parkes 64m Radio Telescope "The Dish" at full extension to the ground.

“The addition of Parkes is an important milestone,” Milner told Australian media. “These major instruments are the ears of planet Earth, and now they are listening for signs of other civilizations.”

Locating a verifiable intelligent alien radio signal is basically like looking for a cosmic needle in a haystack. But scientists believe Earth’s most powerful telescopes are the best chance of helping to answer the question of whether earthlings are alone in the universe.

John Reynolds, program director for Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, said he’s not convinced the Breakthrough Listen project will make history, according to Australian Network News. But no matter what, he added, the search effort isn’t pointless.

The Parkes radio telescope can tilt 60° from vertical and would take 15 minutes to perform a 360° rotation.

“I’m a bit of a skeptic, but I like the idea,” Reynolds said. “I think it is actually real science, even though the chance of success is small. It’s definitely a question that has to be answered, and you won’t find out unless you actually look.”

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Video – The Spanish Ministry of Defense declassifies 1,900 pages of top-secret UFO files

Another step towards global UFO disclosure. The Spanish Ministry of Defense has declassified 80 reports of alleged UFO sightings that took place between 1962 and 1995.

The Spanish Ministry of Defense has declassified 80 confidential reports containing around 1,900 pages of alleged UFO sightings that were recorded above Spanish airspace between 1962 and 1995.

The material is available to the public in the online library of the Spanish Ministry of Defense. The reports include the location of the sighting, the date, the summary of facts, considerations, conclusions and the proposed classification or declassification of each document.

The declassification process of the documents began in 1991 when the Ministry of Defense decided to analyze the reports and reduce their classification level in order to make them available to the general public which demanded access to these documents.

Fascinating accounts – inexplicable phenomena

One of the most interesting UFO sightings was reported by pilots and crew when President Adolfo Suarez was traveling from Germany to SPAIN.

The strange UFO was spotted at an undisclosed location. The encounter occurred when former President Adolfo Suarez, was on board an aircraft of the Spanish Air Force. The pilots and passengers onboard witnessed strange lights that could be explained. It remains unclear as to where the sighting took place. The report reads: “During night hours on February 25, 1980, onboard the 401st Squadron aircraft on a flight from Germany to Spain, Madrid with President Suarez, strange lights were observed by the pilots and passengers“.

Furthermore, the declassified documents reveal a number of different sightings that occurred over SPAIN when UFO’s were detected by radar but were invisible for pilots who were sent out to intercept them.

A document which dates to the 28th of November 1979 indicates that numerous individuals observed two UFOs in Madrid. A military plane was sent out to search for the UFOs. The pilot of the intercepting aircraft didn’t see anything, even though “the weather conditions were excellent” and “radar contact had been established four times” the report reads.

That same report details other sightings, one of them occurred on November 27, 1979, when “lights in the sky, were observed by many people” and “unknown echoes” were recorded.

Furthermore, the report details how in 1971, a “luminous object was spotted following a T-33 in Talavera-Getafe route”; and in 1977, mystery lights were seen above Madrid.”

The first UFO sighting over Madrid was recorded on December 11 of 1968. Two witnesses reported at 20.05 hours and 20.30 hours the presence “of a very bright object with changes in brightness,“ in the southwestern parts of the capital. 

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5. UFO sightings: Files explain why MoD closed down special desk
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Time machine, recording studio, travel destination: Inside southern California's mind-bending Integratron

By Edwina HagonAustralian-bred, New York-based freelance writer, editor, and producer with an unshakeable love of travel, flea markets, and Bryan Ferry

You don't have to believe in UFOs or time travel to appreciate the Integratron. But when visiting the one-of-a-kind, three-story high, white-domed structure that's been a permanent fixture of California's Mojave Desert since the late 1950s, keeping an open mind is a must, not a maybe.

To visit the Integratron is to pay homage to the life's work of a man named George Van Tassel – an aviator and UFOlogist with an extraordinary mission: to construct "a time machine for basic research on rejuvenation, anti-gravity, and time travel". It's the brainchild of a benevolent bunch of extraterrestrials from Venus who arrived on Earth on a star-soaked night in 1953 and – according to Van Tassel – telepathically divulged to him the schematics for what would become the Integratron.

And, judging by the structure's meticulous configuration – requiring no screws or nails of any kind, right down to the perfect acoustics for which the space is perhaps best known – it's safe to say those extraterrestrials knew a thing or two about midcentury modernist design.

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Located amid the dusty desertscape of Landers, California, about an hour north of Palm Springs and just moments from the unique spike-leafed evergreens inhabiting the Joshua Tree National Park, the precise coordinates of the Integratron are as much a part of the way it functions as the structure itself. It's said that if you stand directly in the centre, you'll channel a significant spike in the earth's magnetic field which, when combined with the geometry of the building, generates a powerful connection between electrical energy and spirituality.

And while you may no longer have the opportunity to hitch a ride back in time, the good news is that the Integratron is open to the public thanks to the Karl sisters who have devoted more than 30 years to preserving the site in all its otherworldly magnificence.

Image: integratron.com

And magnificent it is. Inside the airy main chamber, 16 rectangular windows boast panoramic views of the desert as linear wood detailing spirals out from the dome's highest point. Like some kind of esoteric house of worship, the space feels undeniably sacred, the interior's wooden ribs reaching skyward in adulation.

But it's not only the look and feel of the space that has thousands of visitors making the pilgrimage each year. It's the Integratron's unusual acoustic properties that attract everyone from musicians and yogis to astronomers and scientists, and which makes the structure a sublime archetype for sound baths.

Image: Getty Images

For those unfamiliar with the relatively new modality of healing, a sound bath is an immersive experience that engages a series of quartz-crystal singing bowls to lull participants into a meditative state of stillness as the transcendental tones wash over them.

If it sounds like your kind of jam, it's recommended that you book your session at least a couple of weeks in advance as spots fill up fast. Arrive early for a stroll around the grounds, and settle into one of the many hammocks to absorb the view of the white dome as it rises out of the Mojave like a repurposed UFO.

The Integratron is located at 2477 Belfield Boulevard in Landers, and offers sound bath sessions for $34 per person on weekdays and $47 per person on weekends and holidays. Bookings can be made via the website. 

Alien News: Aliens Are Everywhere, Says Astrophysicist

ByDonald Acosta

An astrophysicist from the Columbia University claims that aliens are everywhere but we just could not see them. The scientist, Caleb Scharf, explains that the ancient alien life forms transformed themselves into the physical world and are causing mysterious forces like dark matter and dark energy.

“Perhaps hyper-advanced life isn’t just external. Perhaps it’s already all around,” astrophysicist Cale Scharf explained “In other words, life might not just be in the equations. It might be the equations.”

The scientist asserts that this is just a theory  his work has been published in an article on Nautilus.

Scharf adds that the aliens are so advanced that we cannot explain what they are using the laws of physics. He says that the theory is similar to how some people view some objects as magical because they are not familiar with it.

“What if life has moved so far on that it doesn’t just appear magical, but appears like physics?” the astrophysicist added.  “After all, if the cosmos holds other life, and if some of that life has evolved beyond our own waypoints of complexity and technology, we should be considering some very extreme possibilities.”

Recently, a video was uploaded on YouTube showing a fleet of unidentified flying objects taking off from the lunar surface. Alien believers claim that these UFOs, most likely of alien origin, are actually guarding the moon and trying to protect it from humans.

Meanwhile, the video has been questioned by others. A photographer explains that the objects are not aliens but are simply a product of optical illusion.

“UFO’s are NOT what you’re seeing. It is a phenomenon seen any time you look at the moon’s edge. I have lots of telescope time. You see this all the time. It’s called Chromatic Aberration. (Google it)  You see it more when the lens is out of focus as well, such as in this video,” explains photographer John Biondo.

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WHY STEPHEN HAWKING IS RIGHT TO URGE CAUTION BEFORE CONTACTING ALIEN CIVILIZATIONS

NASA

By Darren Orf

 

On October 25, 2006—ten years ago—NASA strapped two satellites onto a Delta II rocket and sent them skyward with an important mission—to figure out what our Sun is all about.

Given that it's the brightest object in our solar system and the big ball of fire that keeps us alive, you'd think humans would know all kinds of stuff about or friend, Sol. But, of course, for most of human history we've been staring at the Sun from one vantage point, and that's the soil beneath our feet. For the past decade, though, two satellites named STEREO-A and STEREO-B, part of the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory mission, have been traveling ahead and behind Earth's orbit to get a more complete picture of our sun than ever before.

The results have been stunning. Here's a brief history of STEREO and its many, many accomplishments.

STEREO B, In The Beginning

Although other missions, like ESA and NASA's SOHO satellite, have traversed space in search of answers to our Sun-related questions, the primary goal of STEREO was to capture the first fully 3D image of our Sun, a simultaneous rendering of our life-giving star, as well mapping coronal mass ejections (CMEs) more accurately. To achieve that feat, NASA needed to coordinate the orbits of two separate satellites, one just inside and one just outside of Earth's own orbit, to get data from three distinct areas in our solar system.

In this image, we see nearly completed Stereo B, the satellite destined to travel behind Earth's orbit, at NASA's Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland in 2005. These satellites come with an extreme ultraviolet imager, two white-light coronagraphs, and a heliospheric imager—all for studying the evolution of  CMEs  as they travel from the Sun through its atmosphere (the corona).

APL

STEREO Is Ready For Launch

This one-minute clip shows the Delta II launch from Cape Canaveral on October 25, 2006.

After the launch, scientists hailed the satellites as ushering "a new dawn for solar observation," with plans to also accurately measure and predict solar storms. The correct prediction of these storms could help protect future astronauts from radiation when humans finally make that long, perilous trek to Mars.

Getting Into Orbit

This is an extended animation of what STEREO's completed and planned orbit is until late 2019. By now, STEREO-A and -B have flown by each other on the other side of the Sun and are now on their return journey to Earth. You can see the satellite's current positions right here.

The Sun Gets Stereoscopic

This stereoscopic image of the sun, captured in April 2007, recreates what it would be like for two human eyes to stare at the Sun (albeit on a galactic scale). This data was captured during the early portion of STEREO's mission as its twin satellites were still near Earth. 

The Sun Now Comes in 3D

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This "Eye of Sauron"-like image is the exact moment when in 2011 STEREO-A and B were in the exact position to completely capture the Sun in nearly real-time. This is the first time scientists had ever seen the Sun all at once.

Strangely, it was the first time we could say without a doubt that the Sun was indeed a sphere (though we had a good idea that was the case already.)

NASA

Watch Out For Space Weather

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On July 23, 2012, the Sun unleashed a huge coronal mass ejection. Because NASA's "Heliophysics fleet" (which also includes the old SOHO satellite and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory) comes with these twin STEREO satellites, NASA was able to capture the CME from a couple vantage points and with images from coronagraphs, which blocks the solar disk so the Sun's atmosphere is more visible. Because of this technique and all these different points of data, NASA was able to model this particular coronal ejection and learn more about what makes the Sun tick. Here's a good explainer on how to read STEREO's chronograph images.4

A 2014 Crisis

After eight years of successful operation, STEREO hit a snag. On October 1, 2014, NASA lost contact with STEREO-B after a hard reset. For 22 months, crews worked to re-establish connection with the wayward craft and were finally successful on August 21, 2016. As of today, both STEREO-A and B are operating normally as they slowly inch their way back toward Earth.

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'ALIENS ARE REAL', SAYS THE FOUNDING FATHER OF THE INTERNET DR. JACQUES VALLEE

STRANGE UNKNOWN OBJECTS FOUND INSIDE HUMANS HAVE EXPERTS BELIEVING THEY COULD BE EXTRATERRESTRIAL

Everything from the release of government documents, to high level testimonies from high ranking military and political figures has ignited a massive surge of interest in the UFO phenomenon from people all over the world. Unidentified Flying Objects (performing maneuvers that defy our understanding of physics) are now a confirmed reality. Official government documents prove that defence and government agencies have been examining this topic for a while.

For example, you can view the UK’s latest release of files from June 2013 here.  To find out what happens when the military tracks a UFO on radar, you can click here. You can find out more information about that from CE by clicking here. Ask yourself, why is there such a high level of interest from government and military agencies?

The question people are asking has changed from “do UFOs exist?” to “are UFOs extraterrestrial spacecraft?” Attributing today’s unknown aerial phenomenon to extraterrestrial craft might be a big mental leap to some, but the size of that mental leap continues to decrease. There are a lot of factors that are attributing to that decrease, and one of them comes in the form of body marks and extracted implants from people who’ve claimed to have extraterrestrial contact. I’m not saying all UFOs are extraterrestrial craft, I believe many of them are also made by humans from classified projects that come from the black budget world. I also believe that many of these implants could have been done by military agencies; but again, I’d like to reiterate that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is not one to take likely, you can read more about the extraterrestrial hypothesis HERE, or later on in this article.

“There are a great many photographs of such body marks, many of which are in an equilateral triangle pattern of red dots on the wrist or near the ankle. Also common are scoop marks,” in which it appears as if a small amount of tissue was removed from beneath the skin, leaving an indentation.” -Richard Dolan (UFOs and the National Security State, Volume 2)

The case of extracted implants is very fascinating, they are largely reported by abductees, and those who have had experience with UFOs.

Below is a clip of Dr. Roger Leir. a Doctor of Podiatric medicine, and arguably the best known individual with regards to extracting alleged alien implants. He has performed more than fifteen surgeries that removed sixteen separate distinct objects. These objects have been investigated by several prestigious laboratories, including Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico Tech, and many others. Unfortunately, he passed away in March 2014, but his legacy lives on. The clip was taken from the citizens hearing on disclosure, just like the one below, where you can find out more information about that.

He also spoke at the National Press Club in 2009, you can view that video here.

Throughout the years he described what he found in his work. Perhaps one of the most fascinating facts was that these objects were magnetic in nature, some gave off a radio frequencies of 14.7 MHz. According to doctor Leir, they were “fixed, or mobile deep space frequencies.” This is a very large amount for a very small object only millimetres in length, roughly the size of a pencil lead.

Lear also worked with Dr. Alex Mosier, a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Some of the objects they examined had commonalities with meteorite fragments, metals such as Gallium, Germanium, Platinum, Ruthenium, Rhodium, and Iridium.  They also noted a “deviation of nickel from terrestrial ratios that the analysis lab couldn’t explain.” Some of these implants contained nickel with an isotopic ratio not found on planet Earth.

They also found nano fibres  very similar to carbon nano-tubes, which suggest that the fragments were engineered or manufactured. According to Dr Mosier, “you don’t find these things in nature. they have to be processed, engineered, and they’re not easy to make.”

All the individuals he studied had “no noted portal of entry” for any of the objects he removed. There was also no notable visible scar formation, and no disruption in the integrity of the skin. All the individuals tested positive to X-rays and CT scans showing metallic or lesser dense foreign objects, and there were no signs of inflammation at all which, according to Dr. Lier, would be impossible.

All of these surgeries and tests were done with an extremely limited budget, and to understand it further, more money would had to have been allocated to these findings.

One thing remains clear, there are many that believe the UFO topic to be directly correlates with the extraterrestrial phenomenon. There are reports all over the world from a large amount of people whose stories all seem to correlate. Whether it be through friendly contact or forced abduction, something is definitely going on, and there appears to possibly be multiple races of extraterrestrials interacting with humanity, and a very high level of interest from military agencies all over the world.

More On The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis

Just to clarify, ‘contactees’ are usually those who have reported ‘friendly’ contact experiences with extraterrestrials, ‘abductees’ are those who have had what they perceive to be fearful experiences, and experiencers are those who neither view the experience as ‘good’ or ‘bad,” but simply just an experience. It’s important to note this, because various people have reported different types of experiences with different types of beings.

“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered… We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.” – Dr. Edgar Mitchell, ScD, 6th man to walk on the Moon (source) (source)

The reality is that some people who claim to have had contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings actually have.

John Mack, A Harvard professor, psychiatrist and Pulitzer Price recipient stresses that:

“Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off.” (source)

We published an article earlier this year regarding John Mack, and more than 60 school children witnessing non-human beings and a large craft landing. The children were interviewed by him, and it was quite a remarkable story with all of the children providing very similiar stories. Until this day these children have been speaking of it, an event occurred more than 20 years ago….

“They describe these events like a person talks about something that has happened to them. I can tell that these are people of sound mind telling me something…” (quote continued and taken from the video linked below) -Dr. John Mack, professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

You can watch THIS video of Mack Interview the children, and you can read THIS article that goes more into detail on that case.

According to retired McGill University professor in the Department of Psychology (research areas beings cognition and cognitive Neuroscience), Dr. Don Donderi:

“Some of what people report as UFOs are extraterrestrial (ET) vehicles. Some of those extraterrestrial vehicles actually have ET crews, and some of those ET crews catch and release humans.” (source)

Academicians like these, and others like Richard Dolan, David M. Jacobs and more have been studying this phenomena for decades, and the reports of beings and examining why they are here, what they are doing, what they look like and more has been documented by their (and others) research.

What I find most fascinating about these stories is how many of them seem to compliment each other instead of contradicting each other, which just adds to the mystery.

Other Examples Of Physical Evidence Associated With This Topic (UFO & Extraterrestrial – Despite That In Some Cases Both Are Not Related To Each Other)

“If it does indeed turn out that there is relevant physical evidence, if this evidence is carefully collected and analyzed, and if this analysis leads to the identification of several facts concerning the UFO phenomenon, then will be the time for scientists to step back and ask, what are these facts trying to tell us? If those facts are strong enough to lead to a firm conclusion, then will be the time to confront the more bizarre questions. If, for instance, it turns out that all physical evidence is consistent with a mundane interpretation of the causes of UFO reports, there will be little reason to continue to speculate about the role of extraterrestrial beings. If, on the other hand, the analysis of physical evidence turns up very strong evidence that objects related with UFO reports were manufactured outside the solar system, then one must obviously consider very seriously that the phenomenon involves not only extraterrestrial vehicles but probably also extraterrestrial beings.” (source)

The quote above comes from Peter Andrew Sturrock, a British Scientist, and an Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. Sturrock and a number of other notable scientists around the world came together during the 1990’s in order to examine the physical evidence that is commonly associated with the UFO phenomenon. One example used by Sturrock in his analysis, was a photo taken by two Royal Canadian Air Force pilots on August 27th, 1956, in McCleod, Alberta, Canada. (“Physical Evidence Related To UFO Reports” – The Sturrock Panel Report – Electromagnetic Effects) (source) (source)

The pilots were flying in a formation of four F86 Sabre jet aircraft. One of the pilots described the phenomenon as a “bright light which was sharply defined as disk-shaped,” that looked like “a shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal.” Another pilot managed to photograph the object, as you can see above.

The sighting lasted for a couple of minutes, and this specific case was analyzed by Dr. Bruce Maccabee, who estimated (from available data) that the luminosity of the object (the power output within the spectral range of the film) to be many megawatts. The Sturrock Panel also found it to be the case that a strong magnetic field surrounding the phenomenon or object was a common occurrence.

Maccabee published his analysis in the Journal of Scientific Exploration (“Optical Power Output of an Unidentified High Altitude Light Source,” published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 13, #2, 1999).  He also published one in 1994 titled “Strong Magnetic Field Detected Following a Sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object,” in the same journal (8, #3, 347)

Dr. Jacques Vallee, notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA, and for his work at SRI International on the network information center for ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, also published a paper in the Journal of Scientific Exploration titled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Ariel Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics.” (source)(source)

This particular case is also referenced in this paper.

One thing is for certain, it’s one of multiple strange phenomena that has and continues to interest a large portion of the scientific community.

Here is a video of former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer speaking about the fields around these objects, and what some of them were doing to military planes.

Let’s just be clear, these objects are commonly seen, tracked on air radar, and tracked on ground radar simultaneously. This is something that has happened hundreds, if not thousands of times. This is information that’s been made public over the past few years.

For example, a declassified Defence Intelligence Agency document shows one (out of thousands) great example. It details how two F-4 interceptor pilots reported seeing an object visually, it was also tracked on their airborne radar. Both planes experienced critical instrumentation and electronics going offline at a distance of twenty-five miles from the object. Here is an excerpt from the report:

“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4. ”   (source)

The report also described how a smaller object detached from the bigger object, turned inside the arc of the F-4 itself, and then rejoined the original object. This incident lasted for several hours. I decided to use this example because it has a number of declassified supporting national security documents, which goes to show how seriously this event was taken.

“Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former head of the CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960 (source, NY Times)

It’s only now that more people are starting to become aware of this information. Here is a quote from Senator Barry Goldwater before the de-classification of all of these files:

“This thing has gotten so highly-classified… it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified.” – Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (source)

Below is a great clip from author and researcher Richard Dolan, taken from The Citizens Hearing On Disclosure summing it all up in one short speech.

Interesting Quotes About The UFO Phenomenon (A Few Out Of Many)

***Please keep in mind, the documentation regarding this phenomenon can be found from links that were mentioned in the very first paragraph of this article

” Everything is in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data.” – General Carlos Castro Cavero (1979). From “UFOs and the National Security State, Volume 2,″ written by Richard Dolan.

“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source) – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee

“There is another way whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.” (source) – Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of physics, University of Nebraska.

“This thing has gotten so highly-classified… it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified.” – Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (source)

“Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off.” – John Mack,Dr. John E. Mack, a Harvard University psychologist and Pulitzer prize winner” (source)

“An extraterrestrial influence is investigating our planet. Something is monitoring the planet and they are monitoring it very cautiously.” —  2008 Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel (source)(source)

“Some of what people report as UFOs are extraterrestrial (ET) vehicles. Some of those extraterrestrial vehicles actually have ET crews, and some of those ET crews catch and release humans.” — Dr. Don Donderi, a retired McGill University Professor of 40 years in the Department of Psychology (source)

“Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, Et’s, etc…They are visiting Earth now; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking. – Theodor C. Loder III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire (source)

“Decades ago, visitors from other plants warned us about where we were headed and offered to help.  But instead, we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.” – Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defense Minister (source)

My people tell of Star People who came to us many generations ago. The Star people brought spiritual teachings and stories and maps of the cosmos and they offered these freely. They were kind, loving, and set a great example. When they left us, my people say there was a loneliness like no other.” – Richard Wagamese, Ojibway Author (source)

I’m skeptical about many things, including the notion that government always knows best, and that the people can’t be trusted with the truth. The time to pull the curtain back on this subject is long overdue. We have statements from the most credible sources – those in a position to know – about a fascinating phenomenon, the nature of which is yet to be determined. John Podesta, for example — former White House Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton, Barack Obama’s right hand man (councillor), and the current head of Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign,Taken from Leslie Kean’s 2010 New York Times bestseller, UFOs: Generals, Pilots, And Government Officials Go On The Record, in which Podesta wrote the forward

“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered… We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time…I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.”  – Doctor Edgar Mitchell, 6th man to walk on the moon(source) (source)(source)

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CIA CONTRACTOR SHARES HIS UNBELIEVABLE STORY ABOUT A UFO SUCKING UP WATER & THREE “MEN IN BLACK”

Every single year the topic of UFOs continues to gain traction with regards to credibility and evidence. A lot of information has emerged over the past few years that has taken these subjects out of the ‘conspiracy theory’ realm and into ones of serious inquiry.

This particular story originates from the US governments Stargate Program, which lasted more than two decades. The program studied various topics within the dimensions of parapsychology, such at telepathy, psychokensis, remote viewing and more.

It’s an excellent example of unacknowledged and waived Secret Access Programs. These programs do not exist publicly, but they do indeed exist. They are commonly referred to as ‘deep black programs.’ A 1997 US Senate report described them as “so sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress.” (source)

A gentlemen by the name if Ingo Swann (seen in the picture above) was one of multiple main participants within the program within ‘special abilities.’ (source)

Before we go any further, it’s important to note that US intelligence agencies have had a heavy interest in this type of thing for a long time. Here and here are a few more examples that illustrate this point further. You can learn more about how they link to the CIA here.

Ingo Swann

Swann was able to successfully describe and view a ring around Jupiter before scientists had no idea it existed.

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190 Meter Crashed UFO Found On Mars, May Still Fly If Retrieved! Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Nov 2016
Location of discovery: Mars
Source NASA photo:

 http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/images/M11/M1101534.html

Here is a crashed UFO in the shape of heart, and its got a control bridge on its top center domed area. You can see a long black window going across it, which is proof its the bridge of the ship. The long and turned landing tracks left behind from the craft show that the ship crash landed as gently as it could. This means the ship still flies, but would need a lot of repair to make it safe, something the US, Russia and China would all love to get their hands on. The craft is about 190 meters across since the photo does have a size chart on it. 

This was brought to my attention by UFOvni2012 of Youtube. Awesome channel with all real discoveries. 
Scott C. Waring

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Glowing Alien Orb Appears And Disappears In Just 3 Seconds On NASA Space Cam, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: Nov 16, 2016

Location of sighting: Near Sun

 

This is just crazy. This this planet is gigantic like our sun, but if you watch it carefully, its rotation is incredibly fast, unlike our sun. Which means this is not our sun or a reflection of it. This is another object. 

 

Brought to my attention by Streetcap1 of Youtube, this is crazy cool, and yet bewildering at the same time.

 

There is no doubt in my mind that this is very close to the satellite taking the videos, so this is probably just 100 meters across about. It is either a energy ship...not solid at all, or an alien entity orb. Remember the alien entity over Dome of Rock? It was about 15-20 meters across and pure white light. Thats what we see here, but ITS LOOKING RIGHT AT THE SATELLITE!!!  Notice the giant face yet? Two eyes, a nose, mouth, chin? Yeah...its a live and its eternal because its in energy form. I call this an alien...others might call it an angel, demon or god. It doesn't matter. Its alive! In the video, the face slowly rotates as if its turning to look at the NASA satellite. 

Scott C. Waring

Streetcap1 states: 

I have never seen a Planet appear and disappear before. For NASA to pretend it's the Sun is just nuts. The Sun's CME's are still visible at the left of the picture even when this object appears. Also the ufo fleet is on one frame just prior to all this happening. Streetcap1.

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UFO Over Liverpool, UK Causes Excitement That Aliens Are Visiting The Area, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 2016
Location of sighting: Liverpool, UK
News source: goo.gl/AaeWrN

These two dark UFOs are moving back and forth from each other and as they do, a jet is seen in the sky above them, possible investigating the UFOs if they were seen on radar. These look more like alien drones that explore, record and take samples. 
Scott C. Waring

Daily Mail UK News states:
A pair of UFOs were spotted in UK skies over the weekend with no explanation as to what they were.

The two blue shapes were seen flying ‘in tandem’ on Saturday afternoon in Halewood, near Liverpool.

After hovering in the air for around 30 seconds, the objects suddenly blur and vanish from the screen, with the camera moving around to try to spot them, only to focus on a plane. (More at source)

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Medellin, Colombia UFO Sighting

Location: over Envigado near Medellin,Colombia
Date: November 6-2016 at 7:45 pm
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Witness report:

8 pulsing yelow V lights with a red at the center, no sound, moving very slow to the north. Two green lights at the end only detected in the PC after the sigtsing.

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Watch Mysterious Aerial Things Caught On Camera Above Halewood

Mysterious objects flew parallel to one another before disappearing without apparent reason. They were observed hovering in the sky above Halewood on Saturday afternoon. The witness used a digital camera to record his UFO sighting on video.

The footage shows apparent UFOs moving parallel to one another before racing off and gone.

Witnesses of the strange phenomena were left baffled as no official explanation yet to it.

The unusual aerial objects were observed over Halewood at around 4 pm on Saturday afternoon.

Enchanted LifePath Tv Alternative News & Media staff, Carl Nichols, 33, was looking out of the window when he saw an object. At first, he believed it was just a balloon, but he saw another one next to it. It appeared to him that the two flew in tandem.

M. Nichols, a student journalist, needed to jump out of the window to get the video of the UFO sighting.

Investigators who analyzed the footage could not determine both objects’ identity. They were certain, however, that the pair were not drones, which raised speculation online that they might be alien UFOs.

Some YouTube viewers agreed that they were not drones but two UFOs. Others said that it was a nice catch whatever they were in the videos.

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UFOs seen and filmed over British Columbia, Canada 19-Nov-2016

Here’s one new interesting video of a bright unidentified flying objects hovering in the sky above Fort St John, BC, Canada. This was filmed on 19th November 2016.

Witness report: 

Was putting to dig out back when I seen a guy in his truck stopped on the street and had his phone out videoing towards the sky, I looked up and there were 2 bright lights moving slowly in the sky. I quickly went in the house and grabbed my phone and started videoing these lights moving in the sky. At first there were just 2 and then another appeared and about a min later another appeared. They were very bright orange and red lights almost seemed to shimmer, I videoed them for 3 min then my phone wouldn’t focus anymore, on anything I tried to get it to focus on the house across the street and it wouldn’t even do that . Not sure what happened there. Then watched these objects move until they eventually went above the clouds 

Author (source: MUFON)

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Two triangular UFOs over Levittown, Pennsylvania 4-Nov-2016

Here’s one interesting footage of a two triangular-shaped crafts hovering in the sky above Levittown in Pennsylvania. This happened on 4th November 2016.

Witness report: 

I was walking down the road with a couple of my friends in thornridge. I happened to look just over the trees to see two objects sitting in the air. At first i was unsure of what i was looking at and then it hit me this object may be a ufo. As soon as i grabbed my phone to take a video i got chills and the object started to move as if it knew i was looking at it. I took a 50 second long video of the craft before it disappeared behind the trees. A few minutes later i saw two more of the objects but did not get another video.

Author (source: MUFON)

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UFO Launches Two Triangles In The Sky Over Wisconsin

Two triangular-shaped craft was spotted in Hudson, Wisconsin hovering with lights on each corner and exhibiting rapid movement. The witness filed a report to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which filed it as case 80030 in the witness reporting database.

The witness first saw a UFO from a distance while outside smoking a cigarette. He saw the craft in the southern sky near Houston launching two small, triangular objects.

The witness noticed a light on each corner of the two UFOs. He saw the two moved very rapidly from south to east, hovered and moved back and forth rapidly in the eastern and southern sky. The strange aerial activity reportedly lasted more than one-and-a-half hour to two hours.

According to the witness’ estimate, both of the craft were over 2,000 feet up and looked to be around 50-100 feet across.

The witness claimed to have made an attempt to get a closer look with binoculars, but they just moved too fast. According to his report, he is a trained Navy look-out but could not just track the UFOs because of their speed. The witness noted that cloud cover limited constant observation, but he clearly saw the unusual objects went in and out of clouds, hovered, and glided rapidly back and forth.

The witness only saw one light as they moved, but observed a light on each corner when they hovered. He is hesitant to share what he just saw because of fear of being ridiculed. However, he was very confident that he knew what he had seen and felt excitement about it. The witness heard no emission or sound during the entire sighting.

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Several UFOs Flying Through The Sky Above Barcelona

A man claimed to have seen hundreds of UFOs and caught some of them on video moving in a blue sky. Celebrating his 40th birthday, British holidaymaker Paul Zinger said he managed to get a video of the UFOs over Barcelona.

He reportedly saw the white orbs flying above the BBVA building nearby.

Originally from Clitheroe, Lancashire, the painter and decorator estimated he saw at least 100 objects moving in different directions.

While the footage he recorded doesn’t reveal the numbers of the orbs, he said that there were at least 100 of them if not more in the sky.

He was amazed to see those flying things in a holiday that was a surprise from his girlfriend for his 40th birthday.

According to the boyfriend, they both experienced food poisoning and the only time they spent outside was a few of hours on La Rambla.

Paul said that the experience of seeing UFOs changed the way he viewed the world.

UFO expert Gary Heseltine, who was also a detective, described the objects as anomalous, which means no concrete conclusion was reached.

The editor of UFO Truth Magazine ruled out lanterns as a possible explanation of the orbs in the video as he saw no orange glow. He also did not think they were balloons.

Heseltine saw 7 to 8 white objects in the clip. In another aspect of the footage, he noticed a very fast flashing to the left edge of the building at 38-39 seconds. When he went frame by frame, he observed a brilliant white object moving through the shot. He further speculated that this bright white object might be rotating as the sequence went black, white, black, white.

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Wiskundeprof berekent: "13 procent kans dat de mensheid het einde van de eeuw niet haalt" - HLN.be 

  Bron: The Independent

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Een wiskundige van de universiteit van Barcelona heeft berekend dat het wel eens vroeger met de mensheid gedaan zou kunnen zijn dan gehoopt. Volgens dokter Fergus Simpson van het Institute of Cosmos Sciences is er een kans van 1 op 500 dat de mens het komende jaar uitsterft en een kans van 13 procent dat dit voor het einde van de eeuw gebeurt.

De berekening is gebaseerd op het zogenaamde Doomsday Argument, dat het toekomstige aantal mensen kan voorspellen op basis van het aantal dat tot nu toe werd geboren. Volgens Simpson is er elk jaar van de 21ste eeuw een kans van ruim 0,2 procent dat er een wereldwijde catastrofe gebeurt. Hij schreef zijn bevindingen in een paper 'Apocalypse Now? Reviving the Doomsday Argument'. 

"In een tijd dat op zijn minst acht soevereine staten nucleaire wapens ter beschikking hebben, mogen we onze kop niet in het zand steken", aldus Simpson. "Misschien zullen we het onvermijdelijke niet kunnen afwenden, maar misschien kunnen we het wel uitstellen."  

Klimaatopwarming
Ook de klimaatopwarming kan een rol spelen. Nieuw onderzoek in het tijdschrift Science Advances waarschuwde er al voor dat als de mens fossiele brandstoffen blijft gebruiken, de temperatuur op aarde in één levensspanne tot zeven graden kan stijgen, met rampzalige gevolgen voor de mensheid.   

Volgens een rapport van Living Planet zou tussen 1970 en 2020 de populatie aan gewervelde dieren overigens al ingekrompen zijn tot een derde van de soorten. Dat zou gelijk staan aan een graad van uitsterven die honderd keer sneller gaat dan normaal.   

Positief
En dat zijn nog positieve inschattingen. Volgens een boek dat de Britse astronoom Sir Martin Rees schreef in 2003 is er een kans van 50 procent dat de mensheid 2100 niet haalt.  

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NASA gaat uitzoeken hoe we kunnen vermijden dat een megameteoor de mensheid wegvaagt - HLN.be

Bron: NASA; Washington Post

© Kevin M. Gill.

Wat als wetenschappers ontdekten dat een gigantische asteroïde in 2020 met onze aarde zou botsen? Wat zouden wij kunnen doen? Niet al te veel, zo bleek uit een test van NASA en FEMA vorige maand. Zij gingen uit van een hypothetisch rampscenario waarbij een meteoriet zou inslaan op Los Angeles en zochten uit hoe snel we een uitgestrekt gebied als Californië kunnen evacueren. De belangrijkste conclusie die de wetenschappers trokken: we moeten écht uitzoeken hoe we een inslag kunnen vermijden.

In het hypothetische scenario die wetenschappers van NASA en FEMA voor ogen hielden, zou een reusachtige meteoriet op ramkoers liggen met de aarde. De ongeveer 100 meter brede rotsblok zou te snel op de aarde afstevenen, zodat we hem onmogelijk nog kunnen doen afwijken. In dat scenario zit er niets anders op dan miljoenen Californiërs te evacueren. Een humanitaire ramp zou zich voltrekken.

Gelukkig ging om een hypothese die de wetenschappers gebruikten om te testen hoe een dergelijke evacuatie zou moeten verlopen. Hopelijk een volledig nutteloze test, maar je weet nooit. NASA heeft namelijk 15.000 gevaarlijke objecten nabij de aarde gevonden die de mensheid mogelijk zouden kunnen bedreigen. Het is dus geen slecht idee om na te gaan hoe we een dergelijk gevaar zouden kunnen afwenden, mocht die op de aarde afsteven.

Lees ook

• Van alle gevonden asteroïden riskeren er 15.000 ooit in te slaan op aarde

Van koers doen afwijken

De onderzoekers van NASA wachten niet tot een meteoriet tóch op de aarde inslaat. In samenwerking met ESA zochten meer dan 100 wetenschappers naar manieren om een asteroïde die onderweg is naar de aarde van zijn koers te doen afwijken. 

"In tegenstelling tot andere natuurrampen, kunnen we een meteorietinslag vroeg voorspellen en dus mogelijk vermijden." Dat staat te lezen in het verslag van het onderzoek. Met AIDA (Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment) kunnen wetenschappers nagaan hoe groot het gevaar voor onze aarde is en welke maatregelen nodig zijn. 

Samen met ESA zal NASA in 2020 een ruimtetuig lanceren om het vervolgens van koers te doen afwijken. Op die manier kunnen we nagaan of een dergelijke techniek succesvol zou zijn mocht er ooit een asteroïde naar de aarde onderweg zijn. Het project zal zo'n 250 miljoen dollar (236 miljoen euro) kosten, dat is erg weinig naar NASA-normen. 

Of we het onderzoek ooit zullen nodig hebben, valt nog af te wachten. Maar NASA neemt alvast het zekere voor het onzekere.

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Video – 1,500 light years away from Earth, there could be an Extraterrestrials Megastructure

Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of Earth, is blocking the light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852, and nobody is quite sure what it is.

As astronomer Tabetha Boyajian investigated this perplexing celestial object, a colleague suggested something unusual: Could it be an alien-built megastructure? Such an extraordinary idea would require extraordinary evidence. In this talk, Boyajian gives us a look at how scientists search for and test hypotheses when faced with the unknown.

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Onmogelijke NASA-motor lijkt toch te werken: straks in amper 70 dagen naar Mars? - HLN.be

 Bron: forbes, dailygalaxy.com, ibtimes.co.uk

© NASA.

Voor het eerst is er een peer-reviewed wetenschappelijk artikel over een prototype van de zogenaamde EmDrive gepubliceerd. "Een mijlpaal om dit werk serieus te nemen", beweert Forbes. Als die fysisch onmogelijk geachte motor toch écht zou kunnen bestaan, dan zouden astronauten na een reis van amper 70 dagen op Mars kunnen staan, in anderhalf jaar op Pluto en in amper vier uur op de maan.

Sinds de Britse uitvinder Roger Shawyer eind vorige eeuw voor het eerst met de Electromagnetic Propulsion Drive - kortweg EmDrive - afkwam, botste hij op enorme wetenschappelijke scepsis. De controversiële voortstuwingsmotor druist dan ook in tegen de derde wet van Newton, die zegt dat actie gelijk is aan reactie. Met andere woorden: om vooruit te komen moet een voorwerp een tegenkracht kennen. Voor een motor komt die kracht van buitenaf uit de energie opgewekt door brandstof. Welnu, de EmDrive doet het helemaal zonder en dat kan dus volgens de fysica niet.

Sciencefiction

Het leek van in den beginne dan ook sciencefiction: een ruimtevaartuig met een motor die geen mee te voeren brandstof gebruikt maar die gewoon haalt uit het vacuüm van de ruimte zelf. Maar het Eagleworks Laboratory - een experimenteel labo van de NASA - heeft de EmDrive getest en die blijkt een voortstuwing van 1,2 millinewton per kilowatt te kunnen opwekken in een vacuüm. Dat is ongeveer evenveel als de gemeten stuwkracht in een niet-luchtledige ruimte. 

De voortstuwing wordt veroorzaakt door microgolven die, opgesloten in een kegelvormige kamer, tegen de reflecterende wanden in het rond botsen. Aan het bredere uiteinde van de kegel bereiken de microgolven hun topsnelheid, waardoor er een enorme druk ontstaat die voor voortstuwing zorgt.

Het fenomeen plaatst wetenschappers al jaren voor een raadsel en het was lang wachten op het peer-reviewed artikel dat nu pas gepubliceerd werd in het Journal of Propulsion and Power van het Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Peer-review betekent dat 'gelijken' - peers, in het Engels, of onafhankelijke collega's met een degelijke wetenschappelijke kennis over de specialisatie - de gebruike testmethodes en -metingen met een erg kritische blik bekeken hebben en dat ze daarin geen fouten hebben aangetroffen en ze dus aanvaardbaar vonden. Dat wil niet noodzakelijk zeggen dat ook de conclusie van de auteurs klopt, en dat een voortstuwingsmotor zonder tegenreactie echt bestaat. Ook de peers kunnen immers iets over het hoofd gezien hebben. Het betekent wél dat wetenschappers op iets gebotst zijn dat ze voorlopig nog niet kunnen verklaren. De externe kracht is er bijvoorbeeld misschien wel, ook al kan ze (nog) niet benoemd worden.

Ultieme test: de ruimte in

Een van de belangrijkste kritieken was dat de motor opwarmt als hij in werking wordt gesteld, dat zo ook de lucht rondom warm wordt en dat de bewuste kleine voortstuwing daardoor zou ontstaan. De test die het artikel bespreekt, maakt daar nu komaf mee omdat die werd gehouden in een bijna-vacuüm.

Maar stel nu even dat het zomaar kán, voortstuwing zónder brandstof. Dan zouden niet alleen het klimaat maar ook de ruimtevaart daar wel bij kunnen varen. Ruimtevaartuigen zouden geen liters en liters brandstof meer moeten meezeulen, wat ze een essentieel pak lichter zou maken. Ze zouden gewoon kunnen blíjven vliegen, bovendien ook nog eens aan extreem hoge snelheden. Op enkele maanden tijd zouden ruimteschepen zo de uitersten van ons zonnestelsel kunnen bereiken. De elektriciteit, die ook de EmDrive nodig heeft voor zijn werking, kan gegenereerd worden door zonnepanelen.

Het gepubliceerde artikel - na intussen alweer maanden van verhitte debatten door het vroegtijdig uitlekken van de mogelijke peer-review - maakt het voor alle experten ter zake nu alvast mogelijk om de studie minutieus onder de figuurlijke microscoop te leggen. Feit is dat experimenten die fundamentele fysische wetten lijken te schenden in het verleden op het einde bijna altijd fout bleken te zijn.

Zoals wel vaker ligt 'the proof of the pudding in the eating'. Of, zoals de Australische deskundige, dr. Patrick Neumann, het zegt: "Uiteindelijk zal de grote test erin bestaan om de motor de ruimte in te sturen". De onderzoekers zouden inderdaad van plan zijn hun volgende experiment in de ruimte te doen. Spannend afwachten wat dat wordt.

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'Arrival', AI and Alien Math: Q&A with Stephen Wolfram

"Arrival" (November 2016) explores how humanity would discern aliens' purpose on Earth.

Credit: Arrival Movie via Facebook

In the new film "Arrival," based on Ted Chiang's novella "Story of Your Life," alien visitors appear all around Earth and humankind scrambles to understand their purpose in visiting.

The movie's creators initially approached the computation company Wolfram Research — creator of the math programming language Mathematica, the online problem-solver Wolfram Alpha and more — to produce some charts for use in the movie. Instead, they wound up with a consultant: company founder and CEO Stephen Wolfram, whose ideas about interstellar travel, alien communication and the progress of science informed the entire movie (even if not much made it onscreen). His son, Christopher, generated visualizations for them to use.

Wolfram explained many of the ideas he came up with, and his experience creating "scientific set dressing," on his blog. As he told Space.com, "Who's to know? Maybe something that I invented for science fiction will turn into some real physics." [8 Modern Astronomy Mysteries Scientists Still Can't Explain]

Space.com talked with Wolfram about the way science fits into movies, how aliens are like artificial intelligences and whether math is invented or discovered — and what that would mean for alien mathematics and alien thought.

Space.com: How were you approached to work on the project?

Stephen Wolfram: Because a lot of scientists use our software systems and we produce a lot of interesting graphics, we have a pretty regular stream of requests from moviemakers of various kinds saying, "Can we show this graphic in our movie." This one was kind of amusing, because it was like — we're about to start shooting this fairly big-budget movie, and we need these screens that should look realistic and can you help us do this? We're starting to shoot in two weeks.

The only way one can do that is to say "show us the script," because otherwise you don't know what on Earth you're trying to dress [the set] for. I don't think the people who approached us for the movie were particularly expecting that I was going to look at them. It's just that in a company like ours, if the request is sufficiently bizarre it eventually winds up at me.

Space.com: What parts of the science were already there before you joined on?

Wolfram: There are three levels that one could take the science at. One is the "what the aliens are really doing" type thing, which is future science we don't know yet, at the other end there's the high-school level physics, and in the middle is the leading edge of what physics might have to say about it if a great big black spaceship showed up in your backyard today. I was trying to channel the last of those things, what the high end of physics today would say about these, and they had ended up quite a lot with what the high school physics version would be, which didn't seem like such a good fit.

They hadn't really thought about it. Movies are made or broken by the personal stories, and the science is mostly just dressing. It's fun for science-types to see the science as right or wrong. There's some movies where the science is close enough to what we have that what you can do in the movie really makes a statement about where science can go today. This movie, the science is far enough away from what we have today that it doesn't point us in any particular direction. I had fun figuring out a few things I hadn't figured out about interstellar space travel, and so on, but this movie is much more about alien communication, which happens to be a topic that I've thought a lot about, than it is about some space travel.

Space.com: What are your thoughts on the challenge of communication?

Wolfram: I think that the basic notion of "what do we mean by intelligence" is — it's very hard to have an abstract definition of intelligence that goes beyond just saying it does sophisticated computation. There's an awful lot of stuff that does sophisticated computation, my favorite example being the weather — which many people would say has a mind of its own, so to speak.

In modern times, there's a lovely parallel between extraterrestrial communication and AI [Artificial Intelligence] communication. They're both cases where we're dealing with an intelligence that doesn't have the same historical lineage that ours does.

You've got a neural net and it's learned to recognize 10,000 kinds of things in the world. Cats and dogs and telephones and chairs and who knows what else. And you look inside the neural nets and it's made all kinds of distinctions about how to describe the world [which] we can think of like descriptive words for aspects of those objects. But they're not words that exist in our historically derived language.

In the "Arrival" movie, the fact that the question of greatest interest is "what is your purpose here" — that has a fascinating resonance with probably what is in many ways what is one of the most important questions for AI, which is, you built an AI, what is it supposed to do, what is its purpose supposed to be. … Among the purposes we don't want is "take over the world and get rid of the humans" type thing. But there's a question of how do you get to the point where you can represent purpose in this kind of way that we humans think about purpose. [SETI: All About the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Infographic)]

An image analysis of the aliens' writing in "Arrival," as generated by Wolfram Research

Credit: Wolfram Research

Space.com: Did you come to any conclusion about the best way to do that?

Wolfram: One thing I thought about for the "Arrival" movie was what do you use to communicate? Do you use math-like stuff or do you use more computation/programming language type stuff? I think the computation/programming language type stuff is actually better than the math-type stuff, but people don't know the words for that so it's not very useful for dialogue in the movie.

[An interesting question] about math and aliens is how much of math is invented by humans as a specific historical accident and how much of it is really just out there and merely discovered by humans. And that's an important question if you're thinking about "Did the aliens make the same math we made?" I think that an awful lot of math is very much in the invented by humans [category].

Space.com: What makes you think that?

Wolfram: The first fact familiar to all kids is that math is kind of hard. It could be the case that once you set up the axioms of math, every question that could be asked would then be easy to answer. That is true for certain kinds of axiomatic systems; it doesn't happen to be true for mathematics. In other words, the fact that there are hard questions in mathematics is the first interesting metafact about mathematics. And as we know from Gödel's [Incompleteness] Theorem, there are in a sense infinitely hard questions in mathematics.

So one of the questions is, how come math is doable but hard, as opposed to being essentially infinitely hard and just full of undecidable questions. I think the answer to that is because human mathematicians have carefully walked along those little pieces of land in this ocean of undecidable, infinitely hard math. Did they walk along the unique such paths? Or did they walk along paths that were just the ones that happened to be historically explored? You could ask the same thing about biological evolution. Are the organisms that exist today the inexorable organisms that have to exist after 2.5 billion years on a planet with this chemistry? Or are they the organisms that are simply the result of a series of historical accidents. The question in both cases of how much historical accident, how much inexorable consequences of the situation.

My guess, for math — I've gradually changed my views, a little bit, about this. I'm softening a little bit in my point of view. I had believed that it was really, deeply historical accident, but I think some aspects, I'm becoming a little bit convinced might be slightly more inexorable than I had imagined.

A still from the 2016 sci-fi film "Arrival.” In the movie, 12 alien spaceships land on Earth in different locations around the globe.

Credit: Paramount Pictures

Space.com: So some aspects of mathematics might be common for aliens and humans, but a lot wouldn't overlap?

Wolfram: [Take] binary, base 2 numbers. The I Ching, from ancient China, kind of uses those — and there are places where they'd been kind of invented a long time ago, but really nobody cared until modern times, as computers and the whole wave of technology that makes good use of binary numbers. Would the aliens care about binary numbers? Well, if you'd gone back 500 years in human mathematical history and you'd been talking with [François] Vieta, the inventor of algebra, about binary numbers, he wouldn't have had a clue, probably. And yet, today, binary numbers look to be fundamental, simple, it's-obvious type aspects of mathematics. That's an example of a historical accident. … I think that the challenge in all these cases with alien intelligence of any kind is there's a big computational universe of possible things you can compute about out there, and the particular ones that one has sampled are very dependent on the detailed history of a civilization.

Space.com: Is there any concept you invented for this movie that you're thinking about exploring more?

Wolfram: [One] thing that I did think about for this movie is the following question: Is there an infinite frontier of technology? If we know the fundamental theory of physics, are we done, or is there always more to discover? What you realize is it's very similar to the problem of axioms in mathematics and how math is hard, and ideas like Gödel's Theorem — it's an almost theoretically necessary fact that there is an infinite frontier of technologies to discover. You can always build a more complicated program.

Another question is, is there more interesting stuff to discover? We can write down an infinite number of theorems in some area of mathematics, but we might say we've gotten all the interesting ones. All the other ones are ornate, uninteresting things. That's a really interesting question I don't really know the answer to.

The question of interestingness is very closely related to these questions about purpose and cultural context, because what counts as interesting [depends on] what are you trying to do. A good example of this, coming from the Pythagoreans: They were really into the fact that 1+2+3+4=10, something that we consider now to be just, who cares. But for them, that was a profound fact. And I think that's an example of, is it interesting, or is it just some trivial arithmetical fact? It depends a lot on context.

It's far from obvious that as an alien you are going to be at all into trying to find out as much as possible. That might not be the point. 

This interview has been edited for length.

Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com. 

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Here's How Extraterrestrial Farming Will Work on Mars

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Landing humans on Mars would be a momentous event in human history. To live beyond Earth's biosphere is a dream to many, but establishing a sustainable presence on the Red Planet will require mastering its environment. We would need to devise ways of producing food where none exists, because depending on supplies from Earth would neither be sustainable or practical.

In the 2015 blockbuster movie "The Martian," Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is famously depicted planting potatoes in a makeshift greenhouse after getting stranded on Mars during an epic storm that forced the rest of his crew to abandon their mission. Using vacuum-packed potatoes from the mission's base, Watney planted them using the planet's "soil," produced water from chemical reactions and fertilized his burgeoning potato crop with the crew's freeze-dried poop.

It seems like a pretty straightforward method of cultivating plants on Mars — but deceptively so.

"It's nowhere near that easy," Ralph Fritsche, senior project manager for food production at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, told Seeker.

NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030s, and Elon Musk's SpaceX has proposed an aggressive Mars colonization effort based on the Interplanetary Transport System (ITS). But while SpaceX may have the expertise to transport people to Mars, there is no consideration as to how they might stay there and "live off the land" to produce food.

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Considering that it would cost an estimated $1 billion per person per year just to send food from Earth to Mars, it quickly becomes clear that we need another plan for feeding future Mars explorers.

"Elon Musk has presented the world with a challenge," said Daniel Batcheldor, professor of physics and space sciences at the Florida Institute of Technologyand project lead for the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute. "Right now, we know that we cannot deliver the mass needed to the surface of Mars purely from stuff sent from Earth. We have to create a sustainable colony on Mars that is not dependent on resupplies from Earth."

Whether we're thinking about setting up our first Mars colony or supporting a small team of NASA astronauts, researchers are currently developing novel strategies for growing plants beyond Earth.

Fritsche and his NASA colleague Trent Smith have teamed up with scientists at the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute to investigate how we might really grow food on Mars. Though using astronauts' physical waste for fertilizer might play a role, everything from toxin removal to "designer bacteria" will be needed to create a Martian version of the soil that we take for granted here on Earth.

"There shouldn't be any organic matter in Mars regolith" — powdered rock on the planet's surface from eons of meteorite impacts — "and, in order to recycle the nutrients, you need to have decomposers to break down what's there to make it available, in the right form, for plants to use," said assistant professor Brooke Wheeler, of Florida Tech's College of Aeronautics. "That would be one potential strategy of making a colony more sustainable to recycle waste, whether that's human waste or leftover food for composting, or any other [organic] waste products to help build that into the design of the habitat."

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Wheeler and her colleague Drew Palmer, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Florida Tech, are using a Mars regolith simulant in hopes of investigating how we might use native resources when we eventually land a human mission on Mars. The simulant, which is essentially powdered volcanic rock from Hawaii, contains none of the nutrients necessary for plants to grow, but it's the closest thing we have to approximating Martian regolith.

The lettuce that was only grown in Mars only simulant (without added nutrients) produced only small leaves in the lab.

Credit: FIT/Buzz Aldrin Space Institute

Though the regolith simulant is a good start, Wheeler and Palmer are realistic about its limitations. One of the biggest challenges is how future Mars astronauts will "remediate" the regolith of toxic chemicals that are known to be present on the planet. As confirmed by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity, Martian regolith is packed with salts called perchlorates, which are used in industrial processes on Earth and are known to trigger serious thyroid problems. The removal of perchlorates from Mars regolith is essential to making the plentiful resource appropriate for agriculture on Mars.

"One of the things we're keenly interested in is when we start to introduce microbes, we'd like to use engineered microbes that could eliminate things like the toxic perchlorates that will be in a lot of the soil," said Palmer. "You can engineer bacteria now, already on Earth, to do that."

But it doesn't stop there. As Mars doesn't have the soil microbes that form the backbone of the vital cycles that drive Earth's biosphere, we will need to introduce the bacteria and strategic plant life to the Martian regolith to ensure the plants receive the necessary nutrients.

"We believe that, in the long term, by reincorporating the microbes and organisms that co-exist with plants [on Earth] will be able to create sustainable nitrogen and phosphorus cycles [on Mars]," said Palmer.

The raw material behind these cycles is fertilizer, so when planning Mars agriculture, we need to consider how that will be sourced. Will it be shipped from Earth? Or will it be produced on site to reduce cost and the dependence on Earth?

"That's just more structures you have to build to supplement this [system]," Palmer added.

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The researchers suggest that before a human even sets foot on Mars, a robotic mission could land months in advance with the sole purpose of preparing the Martian regolith for agriculture. Farm bots could extract the regolith and perform perchlorate remediation tasks while introducing the necessary biology to set up the cycles necessary for plant life to thrive. The idea is to establish a viable Mars farm ahead of a human mission that's ready for the astronauts to take over as soon as they land. Not only will there be fresh food waiting for them in their habs, but such a farm could also be supplementing life support systems with oxygen while regulating toxins in the air.

Lettuce grown in Mars simulant with added nutrients produced healthy leaves.

Credit: FIT/Buzz Aldrin Space Institute

The challenges of producing food on Mars are rich and varied, but one of the biggest benefits of physically growing plants on Mars would be a psychological one. As the project lead for the International Space Station's "Veggie" experiment — which uses hydroponics to supply plants with the necessary water and nutrients in a microgravity environment Trent Smith realized that the astronauts on the orbiting outpost took great joy in growing plants on an otherwise sterile environment away from home.

"Because they're on the space station, in a really hostile environment, with all these wires and cables and metal and plastic... when they have these little growing plants that they care for, it's their little piece of home, their little piece of nature," Smith remarked. "When we go to Mars, this is going to become really important."

The Veggie demonstration system famously produced lettuce that was consumed by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly during his year-long mission aboard the space station with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, but it cannot sustain astronauts in orbit alone — they remain wholly dependent on Earth for food. Though hydroponics will likely have a role to play in supplementing the diets of Mars explorers, we will ultimately need to depend on the resources the Red Planet has on offer to create and maintain a sustainable presence.

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"Initially, as we go for months at a time, we might just do hydroponic farming… hydroponics are incredibly efficient," Smith noted. "But if you're going for an extended amount of time, then it makes sense to switch over to a regolith-farming system. You'll have these two different ways to grow plants for food."

Whichever way you look at it, we will need to use our technological prowess to re-learn how to farm in an inhospitable environment.

"It will basically be like going back to an early agrarian society, when we were learning how to farm the earth," said Batcheldor. "But instead of using fertile soil, we've basically got to make the soil on Mars."

"Establishing a permanent colony on Mars is going to be the ultimate act of sustainability for humanity," he added.

Originally published on Seeker.

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Holes in the Sun! One's Real, the Other Not So Much (Video)

Last week, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft captured an image showing a white sphere covering a small part of the sun. The photo went viral over the weekend, with some media outlets breathlessly describing the feature as a UFO or a "mystery sphere."

But there's no mystery, scientists explained.

"Just combination of 2 @NASA STEREO images (1 of sun, 1 of space) caused by computer error. Happens sometimes," C. Alex Young, a heliophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said today (Nov. 21) via Twitter, where he posts information about the sun and space weather using the handle @TheSunToday.

There is an actual hole in the sun at the moment, but it doesn't look anything like the white dot in the image taken by STEREO-A (whose name is short for Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory). Rather, it's a gigantic, dark feature called a "coronal hole" — a relatively cool region where the sun's magnetic field lies open to interplanetary space, allowing the flow of charged particles known as the solar wind to stream forth.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft captured this image of the sun's huge, dark coronal hole on Nov. 21, 2016.

Credit: NASA/SDO

Solar wind particles that hit Earth can spark geomagnetic storms on this planet, which can temporarily disrupt power grids and satellite operations. These storms also sometimes supercharge the gorgeous auroral displays known as the northern and southern lights.

Indeed, dramatic Arctic auroras occurred late last month when this same coronal hole — which scientists have been tracking with NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft — was facing Earth. And a similar display could begin tomorrow night (Nov. 22), because the hole has rotated around toward this planet again.

"Since our last encounter with this hole, in late October, it has been transiting the far side of the sun, carried around by the sun's 27-day rotation," Spaceweather.com reported today. "Now that it is back, we can see that the hole is not quite as large as it was a month ago — but it is still impressive, covering more than one-fourth of the visible solar disk."

It would hard for the conspiracy theorists to argue that this hole is an alien spaceship — the sun is more than 860,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers) wide, after all…

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Space exploration: Kickstarter could fund our first steps to Alpha Centauri

The project team hopes to raise at least $1 million through the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter by December 21, 2016

The elevation of Donald Trump to the Oval Office may give NASA the boost it needs to head back to the stars, but other astronomy projects still have to find novel ways to get the funding they need to keep their stellar dreams alive.

One such initiative is Project Blue, which looks to directly image planets around the double suns of Alpha Centauri.

The project team hopes to raise at least $1 million through the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter by December 21, 2016, to lay the technical groundwork for the project, representatives said in a statement.

According to Space.com, the initiative would launch a small space telescope designed specifically to look at Alpha Centauri, which, along with Proxima Centauri, is the nearest stellar neighbour to Earth's solar system.

Because of the star system's closeness, that small telescope would be able to take a "pale blue dot" image of any potentially Earthlike planets orbiting there — a photo of a small blue speck like the one the Voyager spacecraft 1 took of Earth from afar. A blue hue would indicate potential oceans or atmosphere surrounding the planet.

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The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute and the University of Massachusetts Lowell have already signed on to collaborate on the project.

The entire mission would cost between $10 million and $50 million, Jon Morse, mission executive for Project Blue told Space.com when the project was announced in October.

The project's first $1 million raised will go to "crucial analysis, design and simulations that form the foundation of the mission," the Kickstarter page reads.

If more money is raised, the researchers also have stretch goals: $2 million will allow them to test the coronagraph that lets the telescope spot planets around the bright glare of Alpha Centauri's stars, and $4 million will let them finish the telescope's design, start building components and incorporate interested students and universities into the building process.

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US Air Force veteran's UFO video sent to NASA for analysis after supersonic object filmed

NASA has been sent a video of a speeding UFO for analysis after experts were unable to conclude what it was.

1946 - ‘Ghost rockets’ over Scandinavia

 

In 1946 just one year after the Second World War ended another wave of UFO sightings was witnessed, this time in Europe over the Scandinavian countries where they were called Ghost Rockets.

The UFO sightings did not start in America with the 1947 sighting by Kenneth Arnold. A year earlier, waves and wave of UFOs were seen in the Scandinavian countries like Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. But they were not referred to as Flying Saucers or UFOs because the terms came into existence only in 1947 and the latter in 1952 respectively, courtesy, the American Air Force.

During the Second World War, UFOs were seen all over the world, especially over the European and Far East theatre, where they were referred to by the allied pilots as Foo Fighters.

In 1946 just one year after the Second World War ended another wave of UFO sightings was witnessed, this time in Europe over the Scandinavian countries where they were called Ghost Rockets.

The Swedish government covered up the entire incident and started releasing information only 40 years later. One interesting incident happened on the night of June 9, 1946. A brilliant light streaked over Helsinki, Finland, with a smoke trail and the sound of thunder; its luminous trail persisted for ten minutes and the same incident repeated the next night, except in this case the Ghost Rocket turned and went back in the direction from which it had come which certainly ruled out the possibility of it being a natural phenomenon like meteor or asteroid.

The "classic" 1946 photo of a "ghost rocket" in Sweden

A ghost rocket or a meteor. Photographer Erik Reuterswärd suspected a meteor was depicted in his widely circulated photo. The Swedish Army, who released the picture, was less certain.

On June 12, the Swedish Defense Staff asked military personnel to report their sightings through official channels, admitting that they had been aware of the phenomenon since May. On July 9 alone, more than 200 Ghost Rocket sightings were reported, many of them being described as tubular or spindle shaped objects flying low and slowly, with little or no sound. Soon the Swedish government established a special "ghost rocket" committee to look into the matter. A week later American Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, travelled to Stockholm to meet with the Swedish Secretary of War.

On August 11, 1946 more than 300 reports of strange sightings were observed in just the Stockholm area alone. Soon the Swedish newspapers started censoring most reports of ghost rockets. However, reports continued to come in from other Scandinavian countries like Norway which provided some of the best reports.

In 1984, when the Swedish Government finally opened its "ghost rocket" files, UFO researchers found more than 1,500 reports had been secretly collected during this period.

Common characteristics of these Ghost Rockets as described by both military and civilian eye witnesses were great speed, intense light frequently associated with missile, lack of sound, and approximate horizontal flight and none of these fit with any flying objects of natural origin like meteors, asteroids or comets. The interesting part was the Swedish government tried to blame the UFO sightings on Soviet Union accusing the Soviets of testing the captured German V 2 rockets. A good diversionary tactic that many people believed, but years later it came out that the Soviets had immediately moved the captured German V2 rockets to Poland.

Forty years later Swedish Air Engineer Eric Malmberg who was the secretary of Sweden's Defense Staff committee that dealt with this matter during 1946 stated that everyone on the committee including the chairman knew that these Ghost Rockets did not originate from the Soviet Union. No evidence pointed towards that. On the other hand, based on the reports acquired it appeared that some kind of a cruise missile was fired on Sweden. But the problem was no nation had sophisticated cruise missile technology in 1946. By the end of 1946 as reports of Ghost Rockets from Scandinavia began to diminish but reports of similar sightings from Hungary, Greece, Morocco and Portugal started coming in, making this a truly global phenomenon.

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Heretic Among Heretics: Jacques Vallee Interview

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Summary: In-depth interview with leading UFO researcher, Jacques Vallee.

PART 1 

Jacques Vallee hesitated before agreeing to be interviewed about the subject for which he's most famous: UFOs. It's not that he's reluctant to discuss the topic, or tussle with the skeptics. After all, he's written close to a dozen books on UFOs, several of them best-sellers, analyzing a notoriously ethereal subject as a hard-headed physical scientist, folklorist, and sociologist. He believes there is more than enough solid evidence to make a compelling case for the existence of UFOs, and he doesn't shy away from an honest debate. 

It's the hard-core believers who give Vallee pause. Anyone who has observed the semi-academic cockpit known as "UFOlogy" knows that close encounters of the UFO expert kind shed little light and much heat, dogma and territorial sniping. Vallee's views about UFOs are far more exotic and far stranger than what he calls the reigning "nuts and bolts" approach to the subject. Consequently, he's been attacked by believers so often that he jokingly refers to himself a "heretic among heretics." As Vallee puts it, "I will be disappointed if UFOs turn out to be nothing more than spaceships." 

In his recent autobiographical book, Forbidden Science, Vallee summed up his views about the provenance of UFOs, a viewpoint that he's developed through decades of research: "The UFO Phenomenon exists. It has been with us throughout history. It is physical in nature and it remains unexplained in terms of contemporary science. It represents a level of consciousness that we have not yet recognized, and which is able to manipulate dimensions beyond time and space as we understand them." So much for anti-gravity-powered starships ferrying Big Brothers from outer space. Vallee thinks UFOs are likely "windows" to other dimensions manipulated by intelligent, often mischievous, always enigmatic beings we have yet to understand. (60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time covers Vallee's theories in detail.) 

No other UFO researcher has contributed more to an admittedly controversial field. But Vallee commands a measure of respect that must leave his colleagues feeling a bit envious. Even Philip Klass, the avionics expert and the media's favorite UFO-debunker, calls Vallee "one of the more distinguished members of the pro-UFO community." Vallee, he adds, "is one of the brighter physical scientists who believes in UFOs." 

Vallee moved to America from his native France in the early 1960s, as young astronomer-turned-computer scientist. Vallee pioneered the use of computers to analyze and categorize the UFO phenomenon, and his 1965 book, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, is still considered one of the most scholarly books on UFOs ever written. At Northwestern University, Vallee assisted Prof. J. Allen Hynek, the academic consultant on the Air Force's infamous Project Bluebook, now seen by most saucer students as either a half-hearted government effort to address the UFO craze of the 1950s and 1960s or a full-blown coverup. While working with Hynek, Vallee and his wife, Janine, compiled the first-ever computer database of UFO sightings. 

In 1969, Vallee published another groundbreaking book, Passport to Magonia, in which he collected a body of folkloric "myths" that read remarkably like modern UFO encounters, from Celtic tales of fairyland abductions to Biblical passages and medieval chronicles of "visitors" from beyond. Building on Carl Jung's thesis that UFOs are a sociological phenomenon, a product of the collective unconscious, Vallee forever left behind the space-bound E.T. theorists. But his folklorist's approach to the problem would influence a number of later researchers and writers who continue to echo his ideas about other-dimensional forms of consciousness. Best-selling author Whitley Strieber, Harvard "abductee psychologist" John Mack, and journalist Keith Thompson (author of Angels and Aliens all owe a debt to Vallee. Stephen Spielberg paid homage to Vallee in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, basing his French scientist character (played by Francois Truffaut) on the real French UFO theorist. 

We recently had lunch with Vallee in San Francisco at restaurant around the corner from the offices of his high-technology venture capital firm. Part 1 of that interview covers Vallee's theories about UFOs and his belief that science can penetrate mystery of flying disks and alien beings. In Part 2, which we'll publish later this month, Vallee discusses the second sphere of his researches: The connection between the UFO phenomenon and the religious impulse. Vallee believes that the intelligence guiding UFOs is a kind of control mechanism, an invisible hand shaping the development of human consciousness over a period of eons. In the second installment he also talks about the theory that from time to time governments have manipulated public opinion through UFO mythology--in some instances constructing elaborate hoaxes for propagandistic purposes. 

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60GCAT: Why are Americans obsessed with the idea that outer space aliens are the pilots of UFOs? 

Vallee: I think Americans, if they are interested in the subject, are very literal. They want to kick the tires, which is a good American thing to do. They want to do reverse engineering on the propulsion system. And when I tell them, "Look, maybe those things don't have a propulsion system," you get a strange reaction. Just like, if you remember, in Close Encounters, the Truffaut character keeps going around saying this is a sociological phenomenon, not just physical. And he has a lot of trouble getting that idea across. 

60GCAT: At one point you subscribed to the theory that UFOs might be extraterrestrial in origin. . . . 

Vallee: When I met Stephen Spielberg, I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials. If it was real, physical, but not ET. So he said, "You're probably right, but that's not what the public is expecting--this is Hollywood and I want to give people something that's close to what they expect." Which is fair. 

60GCAT: So what do we know for sure about the nature of UFOs? 

Vallee: There is a phenomenon. We don't know where it comes from. It's characterized by its physical [traces]. Eighty percent of all the cases have trivial explanations. But I'm talking about the core phenomena. It seems to involve a lot of energy in a small space; it seems to involve pulsed microwaves, among other things. There isn't much that is known about the effect of pulsed microwaves on the brain, so it's quite possible that some of the stories that you get from people are essentially induced hallucinations in sincere witnesses--the witnesses are not lying. They really have been exposed to something genuine but there is no way to go back to what that thing was, based on their description, because their brain has been affected by proximity to that energy. 

Having said that, I have plenty of colleagues in science and technology I respect who tell me this could be a natural phenomenon--this could be an undiscovered form of energy in the atmosphere. We don't know much about the effect of electromagnetic fields on the nervous system. We're going to be discovering that as we go. So, it's quite possible that there could be a phenomenon like that, a very spontaneous thing. Or it could be artificial. If it's artificial it could come from another form of consciousness, which may or may not be extraterrestrial. It's a big universe out there. Who are we to say where it comes from? We can only speculate on that point. 

60GCAT: How can we use our own comparatively backward technology to investigate this mystery? 

Vallee: Where I think that technology can be of help is in looking for patterns. And I did as much of that as anybody else. I built, with my wife, the first computer database of UFO sightings. But where I think computers could be used much better is in applying artificial intelligence, reason, and inference to eliminating the reports that have natural causes. I developed a software prototype of that, which was called OVNIBASE, which I turned over to the French CNES; presumably they are developing a next version of it, and running it on their database. 

60GCAT: What about other technologies that can help us analyze evidence better than we could, say, 10 years ago? 

Vallee: Digital enhancement of photographs is very useful. In my book, Confrontations, I mention the photograph that I brought back from Costa Rica, which was unusual because the object was over a lake [Lago de Cote], so there was a uniform black background. Everything is known about the aircraft that took the photo. At the time the picture was taken [in 1971], nobody on the plane had seen the object. It was only after the film was developed that the object was discovered. The camera used was exceptional: It produced a very large negative--ten inches, very detailed. You can see cows in the field. The time is known; the latitude, longitude and attitude of the aircraft is known. So we spent a lot of time analyzing that photograph, without being able to find any obvious natural answer to the object. It seems to be a very large, solid thing. 

I obtained the negative from the government of Costa Rica--if you don't have the negative, analysis is a waste of time. I also obtained the negative of the picture taken before and the picture after, all uncut. I took negatives to a friend of mine in France who works for a firm that digitally analyzes satellite photographs. They digitized the entire thing, and then analyzed it to the extent that they could, and could not find an explanation for the object. 

60GCAT: It's hard for Americans to grasp the idea that UFOs might be a manifestation the other-dimensional. . . . 

Vallee: You have to keep an open mind. What I try to do is what any cop would do: I try to listen to the witnesses instead of printing my own theories. Theories are a dime a dozen. They don't do any good. It's much more useful, I think, just to listen to what people are telling you, and I've been trying to do that not just in the U.S., but also in Europe and other places I've visited, like Brazil and Argentina, and try to look for patterns. 

60GCAT: You're a bit of a controversial figure among UFO researchers, mainly because you entertain theories more exotic than the UFOs-are-from-outer-space paradigm. 

Vallee: I've antagonized a number of the believers in UFOs. Number one, because I'm not ready to jump to any conclusion that it's necessarily extraterrestrial--we're not smart enough to know what they are at this point. And the research has not been done. I certainly remember enough of my training in astronomy to tell you that the universe is big enough to have other forms of life than us; at least we hope that it does. But so far we cannot prove it. So we cannot see how they would come here--they probably would be much advanced with respect to our physics, and they would have found a way to do it. But that does not explain UFOs. 

I've also antagonized a lot of people because I think that the way abductions are being handled is wrong. It's not only wrong scientifically, it's wrong morally and ethically. I've been telling people, don't let anyone hypnotize you if you've seen a strange light in the sky. I think a lot of those people prominent in the press and in the National Enquirer and in the talk shows and so on are creating abductees under hypnosis. They are hypnotizing everybody who's ever had a strange experience and telling them they are abductees by suggestion. And they are doing that in good faith. They don't realize what they are doing. But to my way of thinking, that's unethical. 

60GCAT: What do you think of John Mack, the Harvard psychologist who believes that alien abductions are a real phenomenon? Of course, he uses hypnosis on his patients to liberate "repressed memories" of those abductions. 

Vallee: I respect him for his courage in addressing the issue, but I don't agree with his methods. 

I've taken some witnesses who wanted to be hypnotized, taken them to specialists in two cases out of maybe 70 cases of abductions that I've studied. And usually the specialists tell me that hypnosis is not necessarily the best way of helping these people. Nor is it the best way to recover memories. It may help in very specific cases. But I've never hypnotized anybody--I'm not qualified to do it. 

60GCAT: How did you first become interested in UFOs and paranormal phenomena? 

Vallee: I started out wanting to do astronomy and I ruined essentially a perfectly good career in science by becoming interested in computers. This was in France in the early days of computing and the earliest days of satellites and space exploration. So I took some of the earliest computer courses at French universities. 

My first job was at Paris observatory, tracking satellites. And we started tracking objects that were not satellites, were fairly elusive, and so we decided that we would pay attention to those objects even though they were not on the schedule of normal satellites. And one night we got eleven data points on one of these objects--it was very bright. It was also retrograde. This was at a time when there was no rocket powerful enough to launch a retrograde satellite, a satellite that goes around opposite to the rotation of the earth, where you obviously need to overcome the earth's gravity going the other direction. You have to reach escape velocity in the direction opposite the rotation of the earth, which takes a lot more energy than the direct direction. And the man in charge of the project confiscated the tape and erased it the next morning. 

So that's really what got me interested. Because up to then I thought, Scientists don't seem to be interested in UFOs, astronomers don't report anything unusual in the sky, so there probably isn't anything to it. Effectively, I was in the same position that most scientists are in today--you trust your colleagues, and because you don't see any reports from credible, technical witnesses, you assume that there is nothing. And there I was with a technical report--I don't know what it was. It wasn't a flying saucer--it didn't land close to the observatory. But still, it was a mystery. And instead of looking at the data and preserving the data, we were destroying it. 

60GCAT: Why did he destroy it? 

Vallee: Just fear of ridicule. He thought that the Americans would laugh at us, if we sent it--all of the data on satellites was being concentrated in the U.S. And we were exchanging our data with international bodies. And he just didn't want Paris observatory to look silly by reporting some thing that he could not identify in the sky. [This was in] 1961. Later I found out that other observatories had made exactly the same observation, and that in fact American tracking stations had photographed the same thing and could not identify it either. It was a first magnitude object: it was as bright as [the star] Sirius. You couldn't miss it. It didn't reappear in successive weeks. It's just a little anecdote, but to me that fact that we destroyed it was more important than what we saw. And that reopened the whole question for me: Are there things that scientists are observing and not talking about? And then I started extending a small network of scientists, which is still active, and found that there was a lot of data that was never published. In fact, the best data has never been published. I think a great deal of the misunderstanding about UFOs among scientists is that the scientists have never had access to the best data. 

60GCAT: Why has the best data never been published? 

Vallee: I talk to a lot of technical companies where the executives are aware of my interests, and I've had a lot of reports under seal of confidentiality from people in science and in business who had seen things. About a year ago, a vice president at IBM took me aside after a conference and said, "Are you the same Jacques Vallee who is interested in UFOs?" And he described a perfectly classic UFO close encounter story that he and his family had in upstate New York. This is not something that is going to be in the National Enquirer. 

I met a man who is president of a technical company in Silicon Valley; he wanted to tell me about his experiences. He had been a very-high ranking naval officer in command of a large ship, and he had three experiences with UFOs, two of them in the service in very sensitive positions--and at one time when he was a test pilot. He has never reported any of the encounters, even when he was a pilot. I said, "Weren't you under obligation to report it?" And he said, "Maybe I was, but if they have the slightest doubt about what you are seeing up there, you are [considered to be] crazy--they won't let you near the cockpit of an experimental plane." And he said, "If you're a pilot, you want to fly. You don't want to spend the next month filling out forms for a bunch of psychiatrics." Which is what will happen. I think any pilot will tell you the same thing, you know, over a beer. So those are the cases that I'm interested in. The cases that have not been reported in the press, haven't been distorted in the retelling. When I have time, I follow up on those cases with my own resources basically out of curiosity, with no preconceived idea. 

60GCAT: But skeptics always argue that even though there may be anecdotal evidence, there's no hard scientific data. . . . 

Vallee: There is plenty of data--and it should be analyzed further. But I do not think it's going to be a propeller from a flying saucer. I think it is going to be things that would be interesting if you could find a pattern to the material. I'm skeptical about stories of crashed saucers; I have an open mind about it, but I've heard those stories for so many years and they never really amount to anything tangible. Also, I am skeptical for another reason: We build technologies now that are extremely reliable where there is the need. How often does your hard disk crash? I mean, if you keep your computer for 15 years, eventually the hard disk is going to crash. But you don't expect that to happen. If you were going to build a technology that takes you across interstellar space, it would have to be extremely reliable. 

60GCAT: In your books, you detail the hard data turned up in European investigations. 

Vallee: There is a small unit of the CNES, which is the French equivalent of NASA, that has permission to investigate any cases of UFOs. They were set up in the mid-'70s and they've been going ever since. They found a number of cases that couldn't be explained, and some cases were never published with all the data. Cases where there were traces on the ground, where there was evidence of heat, evidence of radiation, including pulsed microwave radiation, and evidence of plants being affected. Again, that doesn't prove anything. It just proves that there was something there. It doesn't tell you what it was. But it certainly is a valid technical issue. 

This data doesn't tell you if the phenomenon is natural or not, because it doesn't tell you enough about the conditions where that happened. And that's where I think a lot more research should be done. People have come to me saying, "Look, I was a pilot or in a radar station in Alaska, and we were tracking UFOs--we recorded the data, and I was a pilot and followed one of those things and got gun camera footage of it. When I landed there was a guy waiting for me, in blue jeans and a sweater, who said, 'You didn't see anything up there.'" Meanwhile, a guy with a screwdriver is unhooking the camera from the fuselage. Usually witnesses have no idea where those guys come from. But somebody has a lot of data; and I think that this hard data should be turned over to science, certainly the stuff from 20 years ago--I mean, how classified can it be? By now, we should have known if it was an enemy, so we should turn over the data to the scientific community. Let the skeptics analyze it from their point of view and let anyone else analyze it from their point of view. That's the way science should be done. 

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PART 2 


EDITOR'S REVELATION: In Part 1 of our interview with UFO sleuth/computer conferencing pioneer Jacques Vallee, we looked at some of the scientific evidence bolstering the contention that UFOs are a real, measurable phenomenon. In Part 2, below, Vallee continues this theme as he talks about his samples of "liquid sky"--the metallic debris occasionally seen ejected from flying disks. 
Then hold on to your propeller beanie as we depart four-dimensional time space and look at some of Vallee's more exotic theories about the origin of UFOs. As Vallee puts it, "The UFO phenomenon exists. It has been with us throughout history. It is physical in nature and it remains unexplained in terms of contemporary science. It represents a level of consciousness that we have not yet recognized, and which is able to manipulate dimensions beyond time and space as we understand them. It affects our own consciousness in ways that we do not grasp fully, and it generally behaves as a control system." 

Vallee refers to this complex system of control--which is shaping human society over the course of thousands of years--as an "interface of reality with consciousness." It sounds a lot like Arthur C. Clarke's science fictional theme in 2001: A Space Odyssey--an alien intelligence subtly directing the course of human development, toward mysterious ends. Talk about your cosmic conspiracies! 

But Vallee also has controversial ideas about human-made UFO conspiracies. "I was investigating some cases that were physically real," he says, "but they were hoaxes--yet not hoaxes on the part of the witnesses." 

The two most stunning cases of faked UFO events that Vallee has uncovered occurred rather recently in the history of saucer sightings. In 1980, a strange object purportedly "crashed" in England's Rendlesham Forest, a few miles away from an American Air Force Base. Dozens of military personnel were dispatched into the forest, without weapons, before the supposed crash of a luminous object. After the incident conflicting stories leaked to the press and to civilian investigators, some of the leaks apparently originating from the front office of the military base. Vallee's conclusion--controversial among UFO believers who insist that aliens touched down in Rendlesham Forest--is that "the event had all the earmarks of being staged for the benefit of the witnesses, perhaps so that their psychological reactions could be studied." 

Even more bizarre is the information turned up by French investigators in the wake of a bizarre 1979 abduction case. An unemployed young man named Franck Fontaine disappeared outside of his apartment one morning, reportedly after his friends saw him enveloped in a luminous fog. After a week of frenzied press coverage and a fruitless search by the authorities, Fontaine turned up in a field outside the apartment--with no memory of his unusual experience. His friends insisted he had been abducted by a UFO, and police investigators, though they doubted that claim, found no other satisfactory explanation. 

But as Vallee reports, investigators from GEPAN, the French government's aerial phenomena study group, were led to an official in the French Ministry of Defense who willingly described the so-called UFO abduction as an "Exercise of General Synthesis." What happened to Fontaine? "We put him to sleep and he was put under an altered state of high suggestibility," replied the official. When asked if the "exercise" was intended to test the investigative abilities of local law enforcement agencies, the official said, "That would be a fair way to describe it." Then he added, ominously, "If this operation had been completed, the next phase would have been far worse." As Vallee notes in his best-selling book, Revelations, "It would be fair to assume that the [Fontaine] operation could have been a test, perhaps a prelude to an experiment of wider scope." 

Vallee says he knows the name of the French official, an Air Force officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity. 

So what on earth--to pick an appropriate planet--is going on? Vallee has several theories that might explain such UFO flimflam. The military may be experimenting with psychological warfare techniques, as the Germans did in World War I, when they projected images of the Virgin Mary on banks of smoke in an effort to spook the French into saying their Rosaries instead of killing Germans. Vallee also thinks that sham UFO reports might be used as cover for tests of new military stealth technology. 

But the most troubling "deception theory" Vallee poses is that from time to time, the target of UFO hoaxes might be the general public, or a segment thereof. 

"In some cases," he says, "the community of ufologists may simply be used in a sociological experiment because they are a convenient group of people to test, to see how they react to different rumors." 

Sounds a bit improbable, but Vallee's research into the growth of UFO "contactee" cults is suggests that such manipulation occurs. In his book, Messengers of Deception, Vallee explored the rise of a new kind of religious movement throughout the world: the UFO Messiah cults, in which believers await the coming of bubble-headed saviors in saucers. You can find these groups in Europe and the Americas, in increasing numbers. Want a glimpse of this otherworldly subculture? Just buzz into any of the alt.alien Usenet groups or enter the magic word "UFO" into any World Wide Web search engine and see how fast you're channeled into one of the most heavily trodden alternate dimensions of online obsession since Big Brother went digital. 

Listen to "Seth," the channeled alien being from beyond; hear the Venusian commander known as Val Thor, who parks his spaceship on Lake Mead near Las Vegas as if it were an extraterrestrial houseboat (when he's not advising the Pentagon); heed the warnings of the well-heeled "Rael," who speaks through a French contactee and runs a worldwide organization. 

According to Vallee, the French press has recently reported that the notorious Order of the Solar Temple--in the news last year after 53 members committed suicide in Switzerland and Canada--told its followers that the highest levels of initiation involved meetings with extraterrestrial beings. The cult used holographic projectors purchased in the United States to fool its members. "As you may recall," says Vallee, "members of the cult were educated people and professionals--not crazy kids on drugs." 

So without further ado, we present Part 2 of the Jacques Vallee interview: 


Liquid Sky 

60GCAT: Let's talk about some of the other forms of hard evidence that scientists can look at when studying the UFO problem. For instance, chunks of molten metal, the so-called "liquid sky" samples. 

Vallee: On their own, these metal samples are not compelling evidence. But the existence of this material does show that there is data that scientists can look at. When we received the Bogota, Columbia, sample [supposedly the remnants of a plume of liquid slag ejected from a flying disk over the University of Bogota in the mid-1970s] we sawed off one little corner for analysis. It turned out to be mostly aluminum. Again, this doesn't prove anything: you could make a hunk of this stuff in your backyard by pouring molten metal into a pool of water. Metallurgically, the Bogota sample is not that unusual--except that it has gone through a violent heating, not just up to a boiling point, but beyond. My point has always been that it is interesting to see what patterns emerge from analysis of enough of these samples. If you kept picking up specimens like that, it might move your research into a particular direction. 

60GCAT: One theory is that this liquid metal is part of the UFOs' propulsion system. 

Vallee: There are [man-made] motors that use liquid metal--usually mercury--for liquid contact. But the temperatures necessary for molten aluminum and other metals would have to be quite extreme. 

60GCAT: What about liquid sky samples that are of a slightly more exotic makeup than the aluminum slag? 

Vallee: The only one that's unusual is the one that Prof. Peter Sturrock (a plasma physicist at Stanford University) has. It comes from Ubatuba, Brazil. In the early 1930s, an object exploded over a beach in Ubatuba. [In 1957, an alleged fragment from the explosion turned up; its precise origin is uncertain.] Subsequent analysis at the University and Colorado and Stanford confirmed that the material was magnesium and magnesium oxide, with a very minute amount of impurities. If the metal really did originate in the 1930s, it would be very unusual because given the technology of the day, someone would have had to go to a lot of trouble to get it that pure. 

The Cosmic Database 

60GCAT: Let's talk about some of the implications of your research. If the UFO phenomenon is real, but is not aliens from outer space, we're talking about new ways of thinking about reality and cosmology, aren't we? 

Vallee: Yes. In that sense, phenomenon is much more important than visitors from another planet would be. Because it fundamentally challenges the nature of reality. If UFOs are a physical reality, they certainly violate everything we think we know about reality. There are reliable reports of material UFOs that become immaterial and disappear on the spot. 

60GCAT: Your theories about UFOs and other "paranormal" phenomena involve your metaphor of the "informational universe," where time and space and whatever other dimensions there might be act as a kind of cosmic computer database. What do you mean by that? 

Vallee: You can get a consistent representation of reality if you look at the world as a collection of events, or 'instances' (as the philosophy of Occasionalism did in the eleventh century), rather than as a collection of material objects moving in 3-dimensional space as time flows. In virtual reality, of course, you can't tell the difference. In the real world information and energy are actually the same physical quantity. In a universe viewed as 'informational events' you should expect coincidences, telepathy, time travel, multiple realities--all those things that seem impossible in the 4-D energy universe. To me that's why puzzles like UFOs are interesting. I don't have a personal theory to "explain" them, but I see them as an opportunity to pose new questions. If it's true that information resides in the questions we ask, coming up with novel problems may be more important than having answers, at this stage of our very limited understanding of the universe. 

60GCAT: So reality is like a computer database in that the right search word or "incantation" might cause a piece of information--a UFO or ghost or other anomaly--to materialize. 

Vallee: If you think of [reality] as the software for the universe, all it would take is for someone to change a comma in the program and the chair you are sitting in wouldn't be a chair at all. The major benefit from this model is that it handles anomalies very well. Coincidences would be a normal expectation. If you address a database with a request for anything with the word "pool" you will get ads for sunscreen, lotions, billiard balls and an investment prospectus or two. In parapsychology gifted subjects may be forcing similar coincidences between separate locations or separate minds. One way of testing the theory, by the way, is to create massive informational anomalies and see what happens when they collapse. You could enhance remote viewing experiments, for instance, by loading the site with large quantities of data about highly unlikely events or situations, then quickly erase that data to collapse the singularity. 

60GCAT: Of course, now we're talking about the intersection of science and mysticism. Do you consider yourself a mystical person? 

Vallee: I have never been comfortable with an arbitrary separation of the world into the physical universe (which is presumably what science studies) and the psychological, social and psychic side of life. To me that arbitrary separation is the major weakness of our intellectual system. 

Most scientists who decide to study astronomy at an early age, as I did, are probably motivated by something akin to a mystical desire to understand the night sky and to embrace the larger issues. As time goes on, of course, that desire gets eroded and trivialized. In my case I managed to keep that curiosity fresh because although I haven't had a "mystical" experience in a religious sense, I have always suspected that there was another level of consciousness and that it was accessible to the human mind. I have found similar feelings among many Net programmers, who were drawn to networking by the impression of operating outside the normal constraints of time and space, something akin to what mystics describe, although of course much more mundane. 

The Controllers 

60GCAT: You've said that UFOs represent a form of alien intelligence that is actively manipulating human society. How and toward what end? 

Vallee: A new computer analysis of historical trends, compiled in the 1970s, led me to plot a striking graph of "waves" of UFO activity that was anything but periodic. Fred Beckman and Dr. Price Williams of UCLA pointed out that it resembled a schedule of reinforcement typical of a learning or training process: the phenomenon was more akin to a control system than to an exploratory task force of alien travelers. There are many control systems around us, and some are a part of nature: ecology, climate, etc. Some are man-made: the process of education, the thermostat in your home. If the UFO phenomenon represents a control system, can we test it to determine if it is natural or artificial, open or closed? This is one of the interesting questions about the phenomenon that has never been answered. 

Chariots of the Frauds 

60GCAT: Speaking of control systems, some of your other avenues of UFO research have led you to suggest that from time to time human agencies--governments, cults, and other groups interested in manipulating people's beliefs--have engineered UFO deceptions and hoaxes. Now we're really getting conspiratorial. . . . 

Vallee: I think the place where ufology--the way it has developed today--meets with my interest in communications, and my interest in networks is in deception and manipulation. I think that is an area of which people should be aware. Because I think a lot of the things that are being discussed today, among people who believe in UFOs, are either mythical or a part of manipulation of some sort, which could include the stories of little aliens and the hybrids and abductions and so forth. A lot of that may be either material that cults have injected into the culture because it suits their own fantasy about the end of the world or the millennium and all that. 

Or, in a more sinister sense, in some of the cases I've investigated, the deception hides a mind-control experiment. Anybody who is aware of technology today should know that we have much more than a stealth fighter flying around. We have capabilities, theoretical or practical, to make all types of things. There is a massive development of nonlethal platforms going on that those platforms have to be tested somewhere, they have to be disguised as something else from time to time. There has been massive development of RPVs--remotely piloted vehicles--some of which are disk-shaped. There is massive development of low observable technologies that are used for reconnaissance and can be used for all sorts of other things. And in many cases, the UFO stories are not simply fantasies in the minds of a few witnesses, but may have been planted as part of a cover for some very terrestrial technologies that we are developing. 

'Messengers of Deception?' 

60GCAT: The UMMO cult, which you discuss at length in your books, Revelations and Messengers of Deception, has an impressive history of elaborate deception. Tell us about it. 

Vallee: I think that the UMMO myth was started by a small group of people, essentially cultists. What was intriguing about UMMO was all its pseudo-scientific revelations [supposedly handed down to earthling scientists like Vallee from UMMO-ites, beings who hail from a planet 14.6 light years away from our sun]. But these supposed revelations were not within the state of the art. They didn't come up with proof of Fermat's theorem or something like that, it was just perfectly good science fiction. 

60GCAT: What about the French theory that UMMO was a psychological experiment? 

Vallee: Yeah, they thought that the cult had been used or was manipulated by the KGB. Because for one thing, some of their ideas--some of the data that was supposedly channeled from the UMMO organization in the sky was very advanced cosmology. Very advanced cosmology about twin universes involving some data that was not stupid--it came straight out of the notes of Andre Sakarav, including some of the unpublished notes of Sakarav, some things that Sakarav was known to have worked on, but had not published. And so some people--and I don't know who's right--felt that somebody had to have access to those notes, to inspire those messages, perhaps the KGB. It wasn't just ordinary science fiction; it was somebody who knew what some of the more advanced cosmologists were thinking. 

60GCAT: Why would the KGB or any intelligence agency perpetrate such an arcane hoax? 

Vallee: Well, let me tell you a little story. About fifteen years ago there was a group that suddenly appeared in San Francisco. They had a big party downtown. And they invited everybody who was anybody in parapsychology. And they made a little speech saying, "We have all this money from somebody who wants to do good and help research, we know that there isn't much money in parapsychology; we will entertain proposals for research, give us your best ideas; we will send it to a panel who will review it and we will fund the best research." After the party, a lot of people rushed home to their computers and typed in all their best ideas, sent it on--but the organization never existed, was never heard from again. Somebody was fishing. 

So having a cover as a group sometimes, a completely weird group, can be a convenient way of getting technical intelligence. It's a good way of doing technological assessment. So some of those weird groups could be used for that. Now, that doesn't explain why they would do it for ten years. In the case of UMMO, why would you go on? I think that UMMO became sort of a goal in itself. It became self-propagating. because so many people got drawn to it, psychologically. They started writing things about each other and it became a self-sustaining myth. They're still sending me stuff. There is an index, catalogs; for some people it's become their entire life. Increasingly, we're seeing those kinds of cults appearing in net space, cyberspace. 

60GCAT: Is there something about online communications that helps foster myths and deceptions? 

Vallee: Because we live in a world where with communications media based on digital networks, a small group of people can have a tremendous impact on the belief of the masses. And we also live in a world where the belief of the masses is a strategic weapon. We have H-bombs but we can't use them. We have neutron bombs, but we can't use them. But if we found a way of influencing the beliefs of masses of people, that would have great strategic impact. The big problems in the world are the problems of fundamentalism and religion--whether it's Islamic or in other forms of religion. Those are the great destabilizing forces in the world today. Well, belief in Extraterrestrials coming here to save us can be induced in large masses of people with the technical means that exist today. 

The potential for contagion of absurd beliefs is a real one. In the hands of people who might deliberately use the Internet to create an epidemic of irrationalism we might see the emergence of a whole new class of very dangerous, powerful cults with all the trappings of high technology. 

And I think somebody has to pay attention to that angle. So I was led to that by finding-- I was investigating some cases that were physically real, but were hoaxes--but not hoaxes on the part of the witnesses. And the story about the object had in fact been planted. 

The Bentwaters case [in which American servicemen at an Air Force base in England observed a disk-shaped craft land in the forest] is a classic. At the landing site, they had a mix of ordinary guards, officers, sentries and so on--they all had orders to go to the site under a scenario. And that's not what would of happened if the encounter were real--if a strange object landed on the base you wouldn't be sending out a hundred people without weapons. The thing has all the earmarks of being staged for the benefit of the witnesses, so that they could be studied and the reactions of the different psychological types and of different ranks could be studied. And when you think about it, it's not that weird. If you were in charge of a project like that, you'd have to test it in conditions where nobody is danger and you can get the data you need. In cases like this one--not many but a few of them--that I investigated, I had to conclude that these were tests of virtual reality projectors. 

Psy-Ops from 'Beyond' 

60GCAT: So there might be military applications for this technology of deception? 

Vallee: Our gods have always come from the sky. And how would a god come from the sky today? He would come down in some kind of space ship. He couldn't just appear out of the clouds, I mean, that won't work. Although in World War I the Germans were using psychological warfare by projecting photographs, slides, along French lines. And I'm sure the French were doing the same thing to the Germans. And there are very sophisticated devices now being used in psychological warfare to create holograms, to create visions to influence people. It might not work with you and me today if we go out today and see something in the skies, it might not destabilize us. But if we were under a lot of stress--if you've been fighting for a month on some little island, and all of the sudden something like that happens-- 

I remember seeing a letter to the U.S. Air Force from a man who was finally reporting something he had seen during World War II in the Pacific. He said he was on top of a little island lookout point. They were expecting a Japanese attack. They had been fighting intensely on and off for several weeks. They were fairly isolated. They saw an object in the sky that was absolutely physical, that circled the island, was a disk, no means of propulsion, no noise. It circled the island and went off. And he said he had never reported it, not even to his wife. The reason he didn't report it at the time was that his men were under such stress that he wouldn't want them to think that their commander might be flipping. So the same kind of psychological means that won't work with ordinary people and ordinary things might work in exceptional cases. 

60GCAT: And therefore cultists and UFO true believers--who are under a kind of ideological stress--might be seen as ideal targets for such manipulation. 

Vallee: In some cases the UFO community may be simply used in a sociological experiment because they are a convenient group of people to see how they would react to different rumors. [Suppose the government loses a nuclear weapon over a foreign country.] You still have to go and recover that thing. And you can't tell people what you're doing, so you have to be able to very quickly plant a story. You might plant a story that this was a flying saucer from Venus. That would be so ridiculous that scientists wouldn't go check. You might have a few journalists there, but you can tell them whatever you want, and you can give them photographs of whatever. And so all you need is to distract everybody for two or three days, time to bring the equipment, get everything out, recover whatever was scattered and go away. I think there are cases where exactly that has happened. And those are sort of the great UFO stories that people still tell around campfire. 

But I think there was no UFO there. I think the UFO story was invented-- I was saying earlier it's healthy to be skeptical. I respect people who have a skeptical argument there. Jim Oberg, who is a specialist in the Russian space program, pointed out to me that some of the sightings that I published from the Soviet Union--a strange yellowish crescent seen going through the sky by many people in the Soviet Union--that those were rocket tests that were illegal under the Salt agreement; and obviously, they couldn't hide it in the sky. . . so the government planted the story that there was a flying saucer, and that got into the newspapers. 

Again, the UFO research community is a useful laboratory in which to observe the effects of propaganda and disinformation, since it is driven in large part by an intent to expose "the coverup." This creates an opportunity for people to masquerade as good guys and "reveal" all sorts of unverifiable rumors. They meet with a receptive audience because the context is one of "independent inquiry of original, bold, nonconformist ideas. Does that mean we should necessarily believe the man who claims he was in NATO intelligence and saw a classified document about the four humanoid races that live on the moon? I don't think so. 

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Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and new research: Q & A with Diana Walsh Pasulka and Jacques Vallee 

By Diana Walsh Pasulka

Unidentified aerial phenomena, commonly referred to as UFOs, has been the focus of research by sociologists, scholars of religion, anthropologists, philosophers, and astronomers. The information age now offers new and innovative ways to study the phenomena, and author Diana Walsh Pasulka sat down with astronomer and computer scientist Jacques Vallee to discuss how “big data” and information processing will influence the field of study.

Diana:

In a recent presentation you delivered in California in 2016, you described methods that you used to identify historical cases of sightings of anomalous aerial phenomena. Your methods were similar to those used by scholars of religion in that you locate primary sources and elaborate their historical contexts. You also utilized new research methods involving technology. You have been at the forefront of computer innovation since the 1960s, so I am intrigued on how you integrate historical research with digital technology. Can you discuss your methods and how they obtained the results that were eventually included in your book?

Dr. J. Allen Hynek (left) and Dr. Jacques Vallée (right).

Jacques:

The study we just concluded is the product of a group of specialists (scholars, historians, researchers of ufology, archivists) linked through the Internet in an exchange managed by my colleague Chris Aubeck. The work builds on the intersection of classical scholarship and modern computer media to assess historical cases of extraordinary phenomena. In that sense the process is very similar to research in the history of religions, with the added benefit that the emerging patterns of ancient UFO sightings can be compared to modern reports.

This is very much a work in progress: future versions may focus on a nucleus of only 100 cases rather than 400 or 500; or they may expand to over 1,000 if we can get better access to data from Middle-eastern or Asian records.

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NASA Specialist Discovered Weird Object On Mars Surface.. What Is It? Alien Craft? (Video)

(Before It's News)

The Medusae Fossae Formation is a large geological unit of uncertain origin on the planet Mars. It is named for the Medusa of Greek mythology. “Fossae” is Latin for “trenches”. Like many others throughout the Medusae Fossae Formation, the surface has been eroded by the wind.
 

In 2000 the Mars Global Surveyor captured many images of the Medusae Fossae formation and it was Steve Wingate, a NASA image specialist who discovered a very unusual object half buried in the martian soil what appears to be a crashed alien craft.

Despite frantic efforts to make his amazing finding public the image mysteriously disappeared several times from his site, but surprisingly the image (MOC narrow-angle image M11-01534) released on October 16, 2000 remained on the NASA servers till now.

If we take a look at the crash site we see that the UFO, which is approximately 190 meters wide, impacted the surface at a low angle ending up half buried in the Martian soil.

It seems the Medusae Fossae formation is a danger area for spacecraft as an image taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft on 2005 shows another possible crashed UFO.

The UFO which looks like a Stealth craft is located on another part of the Medusae Fossae formation.
 

An interesting detail is the fact that this mysterious area gives almost no radar return, for this reason it has been called a “stealth” region.

Link image Mars Global Surveyor:

 http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/images/M11/M1101534.html

Link image ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft: 

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express/The_Medusa_Fossae_formation_on_Mars

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Former Apollo Astronaut claims: ‘Their Ships Were Far Superior To Ours – Boy, Were They Big! [Video]

NAZI VLIEGENDE SCHOTEL GECRASHT OP MARS? ( VIDEO )

Dat de Duitsers heel ver gevorderd waren met hun techniek om daadwerkelijk “vliegende schotels” de lucht in te krijgen, is een bekend feit. 

Er zijn nu aanwijzingen dat ze zelfs zover gevorderd waren dat ze naar Mars konden reizen, alleen beperkte zich het tot een enkele reis. 

Het probleem met verhalen over wat de Duitsers nu wel of niet daadwerkelijk hebben weten te bereiken tijdens of vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog is gebrek aan bewijsmateriaal. 

Verhalen zijn er genoeg, maar bewijs is een andere zaak. Het beste waar we dan ook vaak op kunnen hopen, is wat men in Amerika “circumstantial evidence” noemt. Indirect bewijs zoals een vingerafdruk op de plaats van een misdrijf. 

Het verhaal gaat dat de Duitsers aan het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog zóver waren met het ontwikkelen van hun “vliegende schotels” dat ze daarmee zelfs een reis naar Mars zouden kunnen maken. 

Er waren verschillende types vliegende schotels ontwikkeld die bekendstaan onder de naam Haunebu en worden aangeduid met een Romeins cijfer. Zo was er als eerste prototype de Haunebu I, gevolgd door de Haunebu II wat een productiemodel zou worden, maar die vanwege het naderende einde van de oorlog nooit is gebouwd en je had aan het einde van die oorlog de Haunebu III, waarvan er ooit maar één prototype is gebouwd.

Het was een indrukwekkend schip met een diameter van 71 meter en het had een 32-koppige bemanning, kon snelheden bereiken van tussen de 7.000 en 40.000 kilometer per uur en wekenlang in de lucht blijven.

Nu zijn er onbevestigde verhalen dat er aan het einde van de oorlog, toen de vooruitzichten hopeloos was, een vlucht is gemaakt met dit schip naar Mars. Technisch gezien was dit haalbaar, maar dan alleen voor een enkele reis met de hoop dat er leven op Mars zou zijn, zodat de inzittenden daar een nieuw bestaan konden opbouwen. 

De volgende video start op het punt (01:04:20) vanaf waar je het verhaal kunt horen over hoe misschien toch die Haunebu III de planeet Mars heeft weten te bereiken. 

 

Misschien zou het ook wel een vaag verhaal gebleven zijn als niet iemand met een heel bijzonder opname naar voren zou zijn gekomen. 

Diegene zegt het volgende: 

Inderdaad een zeer opmerkelijk verhaal, zou dit hem zijn? 

Deze foto is echt en stamt van Mars, de grootte komt overeen.

De bronfoto is hier te vinden:

 http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/images/M11/M1101534.html 

Hebben we hier te maken met het prototype van de Haunebu III die naar Mars vloog in de wetenschap dat ze nimmer met dit schip terug konden keren naar de aarde? 

Zijn ze daar omgekomen of hebben ze contact weten te maken met een aldaar wonende beschaving en is er misschien zo een link ontstaan met de maan en Antarctica? 

Fascinerende vragen waar deze afbeelding ook geen antwoord op kan geven, maar duidelijk is wel dat dit nooit of te nimmer natuurlijk gevormd kan zijn.

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White Structure On Dwarf Planet Ceres Comes Into Focus...Its A Giant Base! Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Nov 21, 2016, photo taken Nov 15, 2016

Location of discovery: Dwarf Planet Ceres

NASA Source photo: 

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA21227.jpg

This is the dwarf planet Ceres and this photo was released by NASA just this week, so its as fresh as it gets. I noticed they had a great shot of the white spots on Ceres, so I decided to have a go at it. 

 

I only added shadow to the photo to bring it into focus. The white ceramic-like surface of the building is difficult to see unless its darker...so I made it darker. 

 

As you can see, the largest of the white spots came into focus and is really a massive building complex. There is a tall main part of the building that is like a mountain at its center. Around that building, there are a lot of small vining out buildings surrounding it. 

 

This is what NASA didn't want you to see. 

 

As I have said before, there are three main types of buildings on planets, moons and asteroids. The black non-reflective chaotic structures...appear to be grown instead of made. The smaller white ceramic bright white structures, clearly not grown, but made. And then the smallest of all the buildings, the grey metal structures which are often seen surrounding the edges of the tall black buildings. 

 

Ceres is controlled by a species that only uses the white ceramic structures...which means one main species is in control of it. Its my guess that the Tall White alien species who were given a small part of Nellis AFB to live, also are the inventors of this white ceramic material used for many structures. It just makes sense. 

Scott C. Waring

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UFO Fleet Easily Seen On Moons Horizon With Camera, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 13, 2016
Location of sighting: Earths moon

Its been known by a lot of astronomers that if the edge of the moon is observers well enough, you will see fleets of UFOs in orbit move around the moons horizon. These objects are clearly in orbit around the moon and may be there to protect the moon from humanity. 

We haven't been back to the moon since the Apollo missions, and there is no intention of going back. Many Apollo astronauts have stated that they saw UFOs near on and near the moon, so maybe these objects are a form of protection from future Apollo missions landing on the moon. It may be owned by a species thats not so friendly about sharing. 

The video was recorded by Geril Vigil of Youtube, but brought to my attention by Mister Enigma of Youtube. 
Scott C. Waring

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Case 74282 Update: the Canadian Barbell UFOs

In all due respect, what is looking at video wave form's telling us about the case. I was hoping to see the Barbell UFO's ?!!

Case 74282 - Witness full video - Ontario, Canada

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Revelation: New documentary explores the unknown

This full-length documentary was created by U.K. Assistant National Director Jack Turnbull. 

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Gigantisch supercluster van sterrenstelsels ontdekt

- Dorine Schenk | Astronomie

Een enorm cluster met meer dan duizenden sterrenstelsels die elk weer miljarden sterren bevatten. Je zou zeggen dat je zoiets niet zomaar over het hoofd ziet. Toch is dit supercluster pas net ontdekt door een internationale onderzoeksgroep van astronomen.

Het nieuw ontdekte Vela Supercluster (VSC) is een enorme verzameling van duizenden sterrenstelsels met op hun beurt weer miljarden sterren. Ook op de afbeelding staat de Shapley Supercluster (SC), de Grote Magelhaense Wolk (LMC), de Kleine Magelhaense Wolk (SMC) en de Grote Aantrekker (GA). Onze Melkweg is dwars over de foto heen geprojecteerd.
Beeld: Thomas Jarrett (University of Cape Town)

De wetenschappers uit Zuid-Afrika, Polen, Australië, Duitsland en Nederland ontdekten in eerste instantie acht kleine clusters in het sterrenbeeld Vela met de Southern African Large Telescope. Toen ze deze beter wilden bekijken met de Anglo-Australian Telescope in Australië, vonden ze duizenden andere sterrenstelsels die samen een gigantische structuur vormen. Dit is het nieuw ontdekte Vela Supercluster.

Verborgen structuur

Ons zonnestelsel behoort tot de Melkweg, die zelf deel uitmaakt van de Lokale groep. Die bestaat uit tientallen sterrenstelsels. Deze groep behoort weer tot Canes Venaticiwolk die een tiental van die groepen bevat. Tenslotte vormt de Canes Venatici wolk samen met het nog veel grotere Virgocluster de Lokale Supercluster. Die bevat meer dan tienduizend sterrenstelsels. Superclusters behoren tot de grootste en zwaarste bekende structuren van het heelal.

‘Toen ik de metingen zag binnenkomen, kon ik eerst niet geloven dat zo’n grote structuur tot nu toe verborgen kon blijven’, zegt onderzoeksleider Renée Kraan-Korteweg  van de universiteit van Kaapstad in een persbericht. Het Vela Supercluster bleef zo lang verborgen doordat het schuil ging achter stofwolken en wolken van sterren uit de Melkweg.

Supercluster en de Melkweg

Het Vela Supercluster staat op 800 miljoen lichtjaar afstand. Dat is zelfs voor sterrenkundige begrippen behoorlijke ver weg. Toch kan het invloed hebben op de beweging van de Melkweg waar ons zonnestelsel zich in bevindt. Dat komt doordat het zo enorm groot en zwaar is.

De bevindingen van de onderzoeksgroep verschijnen binnenkort in het wetenschappelijke blad Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.

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