The Walking Dead TV Show Presents A UFO In This Week Episode

UFOs show up to witnesses when they least expected it, but no one would have thought an unidentified flying object appeared on The Walking Dead set in this week’s episode. The UFO appears at 28:27 minutes of the show. Lampicka PSN of YouTube discovered the strange thing in the background of the video. The UFO seems to be a dark object moving from the right to the left of the screen.

Some UFO enthusiasts suggest that the dark disk showed up on purpose so that it could use its mind control methods on one of the most popular TV shows in the U.S. It is believed that UFOs have mind control to make people temporarily forget what they saw or even make people remember things. Many believe that the UFO shows up on purpose to reach a lot of viewers out there.

According to Elon Musk, if super intelligent aliens exist somewhere else, they probably already observing people on Earth. He added that it would seem quite likely and humanity is just not intelligent enough to realize it.

UFO hunters believe that aliens are everywhere, but to uncover the evidence before our very own eyes needs effort.

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NASA Exoplanet Discovery: Can These Planets Really Contain Alien Life?

Every question you have, answered.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 24 hours you might have noticed that NASA made a pretty huge announcement last night.

NASA announced that it had found not one, but seven Earth-like planets orbiting a single star.

What made things even more exciting was that it is just under 40 light years away.

While there has been a lot of hype surrounding the announcement and about what it could mean we thought we’d break things down into a simple Q&A that should hopefully put the discovery into perspective.

What Has NASA Actually Discovered?

NASA has discovered seven exoplanets, all that could be described as Earth-like, and all orbiting a single star.

The solar system is called TRAPPIST-1 and it’s located about 235 trillion miles away in the Aquarius constellation.

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What you may not know is that three of these planets are not new discoveries. Researchers first learnt about TRAPPIST-1’s exoplanets back in May 2016 when they announced that they had found three planets that could be Earth-like.

It was only after working with other major telescopes around the world including NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope that they were able to find all seven and determine what they were made of.

Why Is This A Big Deal?

Well any discovery of an exoplanet is a big deal because by very definition these are planets that share a similar composition to the planets we have in our own solar system.

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What makes TRAPPIST-1 really special though can be summarised in three points:

1. This is the largest number of exoplanets that we have found orbiting a single star.

2. Three of these seven planets are right in the middle of what we call the ‘habitable zone’ which means that they are the right distance from a star to potentially support an atmosphere that could contain life.

3. Despite the fact only three are in the ‘habitable zone’ astronomers believe all seven planets could theoretically support liquid water on their surface.

 

So Are There Aliens On Any Of These Planets?

Well this is the ultimate question, and it’s one that we just don’t know at the moment.

As Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington said of the discovery: “Answering the question ‘are we alone’ is a top science priority and finding so many planets like these for the first time in the habitable zone is a remarkable step forward toward that goal.”

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While we’re still a long way from being able to say conclusively whether there is life in TRAPPIST-1 or not, the discovery of so many exoplanets so close to home confirms what many astronomers now believe: That there are a lot of planets out there and far more than we expected could have the environmental conditions needed to create life.

What TRAPPIST-1 does give us though is a chance to explore these planets close-up. 

“The TRAPPIST-1 system provides one of the best opportunities in the next decade to study the atmospheres around Earth-size planets,” said Nikole Lewis, co-leader of the Hubble study and astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

What Are These Exoplanets Like?

The researchers who discovered them have described the planets as all being “rocky”.

What we also know is that because they’re all incredibly close to their host star.

That means that if you could stand on the surface of one of them the star in the sky would be 10x larger than our own Sun is.

You would also be able to see the other planets with incredible detail, possibly even making out atmospheric features like cloud formations.

Finally we know that they’re probably tidally locked. This means quite simply that they don’t rotate, so one side of the planet will be in permanent night and the other in permanent day.

NASA’s Favourite Photos Of 2016

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In this 30 second exposure taken with a circular fish-eye lens a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower as a photographer wipes moisture from the camera lenses Friday August 12 2016 in Spruce Knob West Virginia

NASA/Bill Ingalls

The second and final qualification motor QM-2 test for the Space Launch Systems booster is seen Tuesday June 28 2016 at Orbital ATK Propulsion Systems test facilities in Promontory Utah

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The Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 48 crew members NASA astronaut Jeff Williams Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan Kazakhstan on Wednesday Sept 7 2016Kazakh time

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In this long exposure photograph the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft is seen launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Expedition 50 crewmembers NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Friday Nov 18 2016

NASA/Joel Kowsky

The Soyuz MS-02 rocket is launched with Expedition 49 Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos Wednesday Oct 19 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

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The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Kazakhstan Monday July 4 2016

NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA astronaut Jeff Williams left Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos center and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos are seen inside the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft a few moments after they landed in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan Kazakhstan on Wednesday Sept 7 2016Kazakh time

NASA/Bill Ingalls

The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Expedition 48-49 crewmembers Kate Rubins of NASA Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA onboard Thursday July 7 2016 Kazakh time July 6 Eastern time Baikonur Kazakhstan

NASA/Bill Ingalls

In this 30 second exposure a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower Friday August 12 2016 in Spruce Knob West Virginia

NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

From left to right Jack Connerney Juno deputy principal investigator and magnetometer lead co-investigator NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center Chris Jones associate director for flight projects and mission success NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL Dr Jim Green Planetary Science Division Director NASA Scott Bolton Juno principal investigator Southwest Research Institute Geoff Yoder acting Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate NASA Michael Watkins director NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL and Rick Nybakken Juno project manager Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL celebrate with others on the Juno team after they received confirmation from the spacecraft that it had successfully completed the engine burn and entered orbit of Jupiter Monday July 4 2016 in mission control of the Space Flight Operations Facility at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena CA

NASA/Bill Ingalls
The Orbital ATK Antares rocket with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard launches from Pad-0A Monday Oct 17 2016 at NASAs Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia

NASA/Bill Ingalls
The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 49 crew members NASA astronaut Kate Rubins Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA near the town of Zhezkazgan Kazakhstan on Sunday Oct 30 2016

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The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASAs Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security-Regolith Explorer OSIRIS-REx spacecraft lifts off on from Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday Sept 8 2016 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida

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This composite image made from ten frames shows the International Space Station with a crew of six onboard in silhouette as it transits the sun at roughly five miles per second Saturday Dec 17 2016 from Newbury Park California

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The Orbital ATK Antares rocket with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard launches from Pad-0A Monday Oct 17 2016 at NASAs Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia

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Straight Out of Sci-Fi: Hoverbike 'Surfs' Through the Air in Test

The hoverbike prototype, dubbed Scorpion-3, is capable of lifting itself and a driver into the air.

Credit: Hoversurf/YouTube

Think of it as half drone, half motorcycle: A new hoverbike prototype aims to make flying as simple as riding a bike.

Hoversurf, a Russian drone startup, recently unveiled its Scorpion-3 hoverbike in a test- flight video — making it the first manned quadcopter that has undergone testing, reported Futurism, a science and technology news website.

The Scorpion-3 combines quadcopter-drone technology with a traditional motorcycle design, resulting in an electric-powered hoverbike that can lift itself and a pilot into the air. According to Hoversurf's website, the hoverbike can be flown by both professionals and amateurs, because the bike's custom software allows for both manual and automated control. [Hyperloop, Jetpacks & More: 9 Futuristic Transit Ideas]

"[The] Scorpion platform is the next step in accessible amateur flying developed to inspire athletes, engineers, scientists and inventors around the world," Hoversurf officials said on the company's website. "[It] is equipped with a safety system powered by state of the art flight controllers, special logical programing and passive elements with computer aided speed and altitude limiting."

While the Scorpion-3 could offer new mass transportation options, like Dubai's recently announced passenger drone, Hoversurf said it designed the hoverbike with extreme sports in mind. A compact dirt bike inspired the hoverbike's sport-utility frame, and the pilot's uniform (seen in the video and on the website) is reminiscent of a motocross driver. The company describes the hoverbike's ride as "surfing through the air."  

Scorpion-3 is not the only hoverbike to take to the skies. Beyond the autonomous "taxi drone" that is scheduled to launch in Dubai, there are both private and public prototypes of similar high-tech modes of transportation in the works. According to Futurism, the U.S. military partnered with Malloy Aeronautics to build a hoverbike that could help soldiers in the field.

Aerofex, a California-based aerospace engineering company, is also developing a passenger drone. The company's so-called Aero-X is described as "a hovercraft that rides like a motorcycle," Live Science has reported, and can fly at 45 mph (72 km/h) up to 10 feet (3 meters) off the ground.

Original article on Live Science.

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20 Years After Dolly the Sheep, What Have We Learned About Cloning?

Dolly the Sheep in a field at The Roslin Institute.

Credit: Photo courtesy of The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the announcement of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. Her creation left a lasting impact on both the public and the field of developmental biology, experts say.

At the time, other researchers had managed to clone mammals by splitting embryos in a test tube and implanting them in adults. However, none had successfully used an adult somatic (body) cell to clone a mammal. Researchers at the Roslin Institute in Scotland were finally able to produce Dolly — cloned from the udder cell of an adult sheep — after 276 attempts, according to the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).

"For a developmental biologist, the ability to clone an advanced mammal was thought to be impossible," Lawrence Brody, director of the Division of Genomics and Society at the NHGRI, told Live Science.

Although Dolly was born in July 1996, Researchers announced Dolly's existence on Feb. 22, 1997. The delay in the announcement was due to the time needed to amass sufficient data on the project, check the data, write and get the manuscript published, said Bruce Whitelaw, the head of the Division of Developmental Biology at the Roslin Institute. [5 Fascinating Findings About Stem Cells]

Although British biologist John Gurdon had cloned frogs from the skin cells of adult frogs in 1958, researchers after him had failed to clone mammals such as mice, rats and pigs, despite trying for decades, Brody said. He added that many researchers began to feel there had to be "something different about mammals in the way their genome and genetic blueprints are packaged," and that cloning them would be impossible.

Dolly with Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, who led the research which produced her.

Credit: Photo courtesy of The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh

However, Dolly's creation "told us that was all wrong," Brody said.

That breakthrough would be crucial in the years to come. "It is rare that a single scientific story can have such a rapid, then sustained, impact" on science, Whitelaw said. Dolly had a massive scientific impact, especially through driving stem cell research and therapy, Whitelaw told Live Science.

Ian Wilmut, the scientist who led the team that created Dolly, similarly told Live Science that research on Dolly led to both unexpected and very important results. "The birth of Dolly and the new understanding of the opportunity to change the functioning of cells made researchers consider other possible ways of modifying cells," Wilmut said. Later, in 2006, researchers in Japan found that introducing a set of four proteins into these skin cells led to a portion of them to "become very similar to embryo stem cells," where they had the ability to then differentiate into different adult cell types, Wilmut said.

"The whole stem-cell investigation was really stimulated by the fact that Dolly was able to be born, and stem cells still are quite promising as a means to be able to repair human tissues when they're damaged," Brody said. "We're obviously not there yet, but it is something that could be traced back to the success of Dolly."

There is also a link between the Dolly experiments and the so-called CRISPR technologies that allow scientists to edit genomes, Brody said: Both are breakthroughs of enormous magnitude, and could help researchers figure out ways to repair damaged or diseased tissues, he said. [Unraveling the Human Genome: 6 Molecular Milestones]

Dolly the Sheep with her first born lamb, called Bonnie.

Credit: Photo courtesy of The Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh

Another important result of the Dolly experiments is that they put science in the spotlight. "Dolly captured the world's imagination and allowed the world to hear about science," Brody said. "It's rare that the general public gets enamored [with] science, and it was clearly enamored with Dolly". The creation of Dolly also brought up important conversations about the ethical limitations of manipulating human cells and embryos, laying the groundwork for similar conversations today, Brody said.

Dolly died in February 2003, at age 6. (A typical life span for a sheep is about 10 to 12 years.) She had both offspring and clone "sisters," which were derived from the same batch of cells as Dolly. However, none of her offspring are alive today, Wilmut told Live Science. (Whitelaw also mentioned that the Roslin Institute no longer keeps sheep, as the funding for this program has run out.)

Since Dolly's creation, numerous other mammals have been cloned successfully, including mice, cattle, deer, horses and rats, according to the NHGRI.

Originally published on Live Science.

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'Hollow Moon that rings like a bell put into orbit by ancient ALIENS', shock theory claims

A CRAZY theory that the moon is a "hollow artificial satellite" put into Earth's orbit by aliens who could even LIVE INSIDE is gathering pace.

EU-backed international project finds seven planets that could support life

International astronomers – led by Michaël Gillon and largely funded by the EU – have found a solar system with seven Earth-sized planets, three of which are close enough to the star to host life.

The star, dubbed TRAPPIST-1, is located 40 light years away in the constellation Aquarius, practically neighbors to Earth by astronomical standards. The planets that orbit TRAPPIST-1 are roughly Earth-sized and close enough to the star to retain liquid water, a requirement researchers have set for extraterrestrial life.

“The discovery gives us a hint that finding a second Earth is not just a matter of if, but when,” NASA chief scientist Thomas Zurbuchen said at a news conference on Wednesday.

The Commission-funded European Research Council (ERC) backed the project with €1.96 million with its Starting grant. From this point forwards, researchers hope to follow-up the discovery by scanning the planets for clear chemical indicators of life.

Although NASA announced its part of the findings first, the ERC and Commission were quick to point out their substantial contribution.

“This spectacular discovery illustrates that once again success can be achieved when researchers from different countries and the importance of support from the European Union,” said EU chief spokesperson Margaritis Schinas during a press briefing on Thursday.

The TRAPPIST-1 star, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. This artist's concept appeared on the cover of the journal Nature on Feb. 23, 2017.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

What would aliens on Trappist-1 exoplanets be like?

Scientist considers what sort of extraterrestrial life may emerge on newly discovered exoplanets.

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  By Hannah Osborne

The seven potentially habitable exoplanets discovered orbiting the ultra-cool dwarf star Trappist-1 are said to be our best chance at finding evidence of alien life in the near future.

Announcing the discovery in the journal Nature, the team of scientists said three of these planets, Trappist-1e, f and g, have the potential to have a liquid ocean covering them.

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To support life (as we know it), these rocky planets would also have to develop the right atmosphere – something we should be able to establish in the coming years.

Without actually visiting the planets or receiving a message from any advanced civilisation that might have emerged, we could never be completely of the presence of life. But if it had evolved – what would it be like?

Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, has written two papers currently under review that look at what conditions might be like on the Trappist-1 worlds, and what lifeforms they may support.

"Trappist-1 now holds the record for the most rocky planets in the habitable zone – our solar system only has two – Earth and Mars. Life is a definite possibility on these worlds, but it might look different because there's likely to be very high ultraviolet radiation flux on the surface of these planets," she said.

She said one of the papers looks at the scenario that the planets have a high UV environment. Different atmospheres would result in different life, she said. "We find that if the star is active, as indicated by the X-ray flux, then planets need an ozone layer to shield their surface from the harsh UV that would sterilise the surface. If the planets around Trappist-1 do not have an ozone layer (like a young Earth), life would need to shelter underground or in an ocean to survive and/or develop strategies to shield itself from the UV, such as biofluorescence."

In the paper, currently being reviewed by the Monthly Notices of the Royal Society, Kaltenegger said that if a dense Earth-like atmosphere that has a protective ozone layer exists, environments would be similar to what we have on Earth. For this reason, she said if ozone is detected in any of the atmospheres, they would make for good target planets in the search for alien life.

But this does not rule out the possibility that life can emerge beneath the surface of a planet that is highly exposed to UV. "Certain radiation-tolerant species have demonstrated an ability to survive full solar UV in space exposure experiments; however, they achieve this by entering a dormant state. Therefore, although life may be able to survive on highly UV-irradiated surfaces like this, it would likely not be able to actively metabolise and complete a life-cycle," the study reads.

"Life could shelter subsurface on such planets, e.g. in an ocean, which would make it harder to detect remotely. If photosynthetic life developed on a highly UV-irradiated planet, the UV defences it would need to employ, such as living under soil layers or underwater, would mean that surface features like the vegetation red edge signature would not exist in surface reflectance spectra.

"However, there may be other detectable surface biosignatures that would be associated with high UV surface environments. Some biological UV-protection methods, such as biofluorescence, could make such a biosphere detectable."

While we will not know if alien life exists on these planets for some time, study author Amaury Triaud discussed what the view might be like from the surface. "Think of the light you see at the end of a sunset, brighter than the moon but dimmer than the sun. However, you would still feel warm because you still get energy from the star," he said.

"The spectacle would be beautiful because every now and again you would see another planet maybe twice as big as the moon in the sky – depending on which star you are on and which you are looking at. On 1f, the star has a diameter that is three times that of the sun seen in the sky. We had a debate about the colour. Originally we thought it would be extremely red like a deep crimson. But in the end the star is so red that most of its light is in the infrared, so we would see something more salmon coloured."

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NASA’s New Exoplanets Aren’t Where the Aliens Live.

Probably.

An artist’s concept of the surface of exoplanet Trappist-1f, located in the Trappist-1 system in the constellation Aquarius. Note: No aliens.

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When NASA began teasing a major announcement earlier this week about a great discovery “beyond our solar system,” it was clear that it was going to be something exciting. And in space, the most exciting thing is obvious: aliens.

It’s not aliens.

The space agency disclosed the discovery of Trappist-1, a system of seven Earth-size exoplanets orbiting a star about 40 light-years away. The scientists say it’s possible that all of those planets—the first-known and largest system of such worlds around a single star—could contain water, though it’s most likely on the three found in the habitable zone.

A detection including such terms as “Earth-size,” “habitable,” and “water” all contribute to the idea that we are getting ever closer to finding life elsewhere. And that means maybe aliens, right?

Technically, yes, it means maybe aliens. But not aliens where you think: As Quartz’s Akshat Rathi points out, it’s less likely that we find life on these specific planets anytime soon, but that this will help scientists learn how to better search in the future. Finding a bunch more planets of the right shape, size, zone, and temperature would greatly increase the odds of finding water—and life.

As Rathi writes:

The reason this is a big deal is not because scientists have found so many Earth-like planets at once. We’ve already discovered hundreds of those. Nor is it because Trappist-1 is so close. The star Proxima Centauri is only four light years away, and it too has an Earth-like planet in its orbit. The Trappist-1 solar system is a big deal because it’s going to be the test bed for accelerating our search for alien life.

What about this discovery will help us do that? For one, the (actual) star in this announcement is an ultracool dwarf that is about the size of Jupiter, much different than our star. Finding such a similar planetary system like ours around a (literally) cool star like this one—there are clues that the planets are rocky and tidally locked to the star—signals that scientists may want to start looking away from sun-like stars for extraterrestrial life.

A comparison of the Trappist-1 system to our solar system. The close orbits of the Trappist-1 planets are reminiscent of Jupiter and its system of orbiting moons.

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Furthermore, scientists often discover the existence of exoplanets by observing how stars might dim as planets cross by in their orbits. Trappist-1’s star is much dimmer than most stars, which makes it easier to see the chemical signatures of these planets—like water or oxygen—using instruments like the ultrasensitive James Webb Space Telescope, which is set to launch in fall 2018.

So, not aliens yet. Of course, that doesn’t stop NASA from capitalizing on the thrill of the idea: The press release is accompanied with fantastic imagined sketches of the newly discovered planets. But don’t expect anything more Earth-like on them to pop up anytime soon.

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UFO sightings are at an all-time high

UFO sightings have reached an all-time high, according to statistician Sam Monfort.

Monfort collated sightings recorded by the National UFO Reporting Centre, a US organisation that records sightings worldwide, from the beginning of the 20^th century.

And there's been a bit of an upward trend...

Picture: Sam Monfort

Interestingly though, Sam has observed that spotting of flying saucers have been on the downturn, despite the rise in sightings over all.

Maybe extraterrestrials have just upgraded? 

In terms of geography, Sam says that the US seems to be the most prone to UFO sightings all year round.

The States actually report 300 times as many sightings than the the global average, according to his calculations. 

Picture: Sam Monfort

If you want to look at all Sam's awesome data, head over to this website, where there are also breaks downs of sightings by State and other great graphs.

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When is Alien Covenant out? UK release date, cast, trailer, watch Last Supper prologue

ALIEN: Covenant is Ridley Scott’s latest movie in the acclaimed Alien franchise and a sequel to 2012’s Prometheus. Watch the trailer and Last Supper prologue here and find out here all about the release date and cast.

Mysterious flying object interrupts Chilean Air Force flight demonstration over Puerto Varas, Chile

By Strange Sounds

What the heck is this mysterious object flying during a Chilean Air Force flight demonstration held at Puerto Varas, Chile on February 10, 2017?

If this was a fireball, it was enormous!

Another witness filmed the same event from a different angle and reports: “I have more videos of that same day recorded from another place and you see several foreign objects flying very close to the plans.”

Here a few pictures of the unexplained sky event:

This mysterious light in the sky appeared during an Chilean Air Force flight demonstration in Chile on February 10, 2017. via Youtube video UFO? Fireball, other planes? What was this mysterious light in the skiy of Chile on February 10, 2017?

What do you think this was? A bright meteor? SOme other airplanes on which the sun reflected? Or just another UFO?

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Astronomers discover 7 Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby star

By Ashley Strickland, CNN

Source: CNN

What is an exoplanet? 

Story highlights

• Seven Earth-sized planets have been found orbiting an ultracool dwarf star 40 light-years away
• The planets are temperate, meaning they could have liquid water
• The researchers believe this is the best place outside of our solar system to look for life

(CNN)Astronomers have found at least seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the same star 40 light-years away, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The findings were also announced at a news conference at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

This discovery outside of our solar system is rare because the planets have the winning combination of being similar in size to Earth and being all temperate, meaning they could have water on their surfaces and potentially support life.

"This is the first time that so many planets of this kind are found around the same star," said Michaël Gillon, lead study author and astronomer at the University of Liège in Belgium.

The seven exoplanets were all found in tight formation around an ultracool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1. Estimates of their mass also indicate that they are rocky planets, rather than being gaseous like Jupiter. Three planets are in the habitable zone of the star, known as TRAPPIST-1e, f and g, and may even have oceans on the surface.

The TRAPPIST-1 star, an ultracool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it.

The researchers believe that TRAPPIST-1f in particular is the best candidate for supporting life. It's a bit cooler than Earth, but could be suitable with the right atmosphere and enough greenhouse gases.

If TRAPPIST-1 sounds familiar, that's because these researchers announced the discovery of three initial planets orbiting the same star in May. The new research increased that number to seven planets total.

Three Earth-like planets discovered orbiting dwarf star

"I think we've made a crucial step towards finding if there is life out there," said Amaury Triaud, one of the study authors and an astronomer at the University of Cambridge. "I don't think any time before we had the right planets to discover and find out if there was (life). Here, if life managed to thrive and releases gases similar to what we have on Earth, we will know."

Life may begin and evolve differently on other planets, so finding the gases that indicate life is key, the researchers added.

"This discovery could be a significant piece in the puzzle of finding habitable environments, places that are conducive to life," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "Answering the question 'are we alone?' is a top science priority, and finding so many planets like these for the first time in the habitable zone is a remarkable step forward toward that goal."

And as we've learned from studying and discovering exoplanets before, where there is one, there are more, said Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Seager and other researchers are encouraged by the discovery of this system because it improves our chances of finding another habitable planet, like Earth, in the future, by knowing where to look.

What we know

The planets are so close to each other and the star that there are seven of them within a space five times smaller than the distance from Mercury to our sun. This proximity allows the researchers to study the planets in depth as well, gaining insight about planetary systems other than our own.

The seven planets of TRAPPIST-1 compared with Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

Starting closest to the star and moving out, the planets have respective orbits from one and a half to nearly 13 Earth days. The orbit of the farthest planet is still unknown.

Standing on the surface of one of the planets, you would receive 200 times less light than you get from the sun, but you would still receive just as much energy to keep you warm since the star is so close. It would also afford some picturesque views, as the other planets would appear in the sky as big as the moon (or even twice as big).

On TRAPPIST-1f, the star would appear three times as big as the sun in our sky. And because of the red nature of the star, the light would be a salmon hue, the researchers speculate.

The researchers believe the planets formed together further from the star. Then, they moved into their current lineup. This is incredibly similar Jupiter and its Galilean moons.

Like the moon, the researchers believe the planets closest to the star are tidally locked. This means that the planets always face one way to the star. One side of the planet is perpetually night, while the other is always day.

What the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like.

Based on preliminary climate modeling, the researchers believe that the three planets closest to the star may be too warm to support liquid water, while the outermost planet, TRAPPIST-1h, is probably too distant and cold to support water on the surface. But further observation is needed to know for sure.

How the discovery was made

TRAPPIST-1 barely classifies as a star at half the temperature and a tenth the mass of the sun. It is red, dim and just a bit larger than Jupiter. But these tiny ultracool dwarf stars are common in our galaxy.

Photos: Weird and wonderful planets beyond our solar system

They were largely overlooked until Gillon decided to study the space around one of these dwarfs.

The researchers used a telescope called TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) to observe its starlight and changes in brightness. The team saw shadows, like little eclipses, periodically interrupting the steady pattern of starlight. This is called transiting. The shadows indicated planets, and further observation confirmed them.

In July, the team was able to determine that two of the closest planets to the stars had atmospheres that were more compact and comparable to those of Earth, Venus and Mars by observing starlight through the planets' atmosphere.

Taking a closer look at new Earth-like planets for the first time

By using a global network ground-based telescopes like TRAPPIST and space-based telescopes like Spitzer, the researchers continued looking toward the TRAPPIST system and were able to determine the orbital periods, distances from their star, radius and and masses of the planets.

What's next

Over the next decade, the researchers want to define the atmosphere of each planet, as well as to determine whether they truly do have liquid water on the surface and search for signs of life.

Although 40 light-years away doesn't sound too far, it would take us millions of years to reach this star system. But from a research perspective, it's a close opportunity and the best target to search for life beyond our solar system.

Illustrators get us up close with alien planets

"If we learn something now, it can determine if we looked in the right place," Gillon said.

In 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will launch and be positioned 1 million miles from Earth with an unprecedented view of the universe. It can observe large exoplanets and detect starlight filtered through their atmosphere.

The researchers are also searching for similar star systems to conduct more atmospheric research. Four telescopes named SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) based in Chile will survey the southern sky for this purpose.

This star system will probably outlive us because this type of star evolves so slowly. When our sun dies, TRAPPIST-1 will still be a young star and will live for another trillion years, Gillon said. After we are gone, if there is another part of the universe for life to carry on, it may be in the TRAPPIST-1 system.

"This is the most exciting result I have seen in the 14 years of Spitzer operations," said Sean Carey, manager of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California. "Spitzer will follow up in the fall to further refine our understanding of these planets so that the James Webb Space Telescope can follow up. More observations of the system are sure to reveal more secrets."

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You Find A Crashed Alien Space Craft Filled With Advanced Technologies. What Should You Do With It?

One day you are out exploring the vast untouched wilderness of the Canadian north-west. Trees for as far as the eyes can see. Miles upon countless miles of virgin forest. You are inspired by the clean air and unspoiled nature. You are hiking on land untouched by human hands or feet. Your mind wanders as the breeze blows. You are utterly alone with your thoughts. As you walk in primal bliss…slowly the sounds of nature recede. Unnoticeable at first. The sounds of the birds, crickets, and woodpeckers evaporate into utter silence. Even the cool breeze you took for granted is a no show. You wonder when did it get silent. Was it you?

Off through a slight opening in the trees you see something shiny. A glint of sunlight in an otherwise pastel living backdrop. You approach and the shiny increases. You know no one else has ever set foot this deep in the uncharted forest. Is that a soda can? A piece of snack wrapper from some adventurous litterer. What is it?

You approach closer. You feel a trickle of sweat down the small of you back. Your mind is playing tricks on you. You get closer and closer…it’s not a soda can. Pupils dilate, pulse quickens, adrenaline gushes into your system. Your brain recoils in disbelief. Half buried in the soft undergrowth is what looks like a classic UFO. A la George Pal in “Earth vs. The Flying Saucers”. You half expect to see Klatu milling around. Nothing moves. All you can hear is your pounding heartbeat. You kick into discovery mode. It looks old. It has been here a very long time judging by the forest overgrowth. Silver-ish in color. The only explanation is that this is a genuine alien aircraft. You feverishly take your GPS coordinates.

Should you spirit the craft away in your barn in the woods, garage in the meat-packing district, or abandoned subway station. One of the three. Take care to prevent being followed! Prepare to live paranoid. No men in black yet…that is a good sign.

Being science-minded you consider the idea of something like this crashing in the first place. Paradox!

You understand the only option any alien race would have for travel through the unfathomably enormous distances and durations of space-time.  To get here with any hope of doing whatever it is you might posit they intend to do they would have to bend space-time.

Ok. So they are folding space and unfolding at their will to travel without any relativistic side effects and without, as such, taking any time to do it. They are essentially popping into existence at will. I know what they are not doing – they’re not flying around in our atmosphere like aircraft. They are not accidentally losing control “in the air” and crashing down in a forest like infant-superman. Their ships don’t have “wings”, they don’t hover over farm houses, probe your ass, kill your cows, fly in formation, or dart through the sky in any way. I would go so far as to say they can be invisible to any spectrum at will. If anything happened they could just pop back instantly home.

Above all else, they don’t crash. They have complete control over what they do. Why? Because all the capabilities I describe above are side effects of being able to fold space at will. The notion of crashing and the notion of bending space-time are incompatible. So something else is afoot.

Now what?

Call a lawyer.  Preferably one that is skilled in the law of salvage? Under maritime and aviation law, you may be able to get legal title to whatever is on the alien spacecraft, including intellectual property.  This could be extremely valuable. With the help of the lawyer, find reliable witnesses. With them watching, document it in every possible, non-intrusive way — still pictures, audio, and video recordings. Have them provide sworn affidavits as to its existence — this in case someone takes it away from you. Store an encrypted copy of the documentation someplace safe that is nowhere near you.

Could It Be Dangerous?

The technologies contained inside the ship easily has the potential to push humanity into a post-scarcity existence.

Scientists have confirmed that microbes from Earth survived the decontamination process on Earth, survived orbit, and then survived reentry because they were recovered after all that. So your crashed alien ship definitely has alien life on it, of the single-celled variety. Should you torch the thing? But it’s already been sitting on the ground, so anything it’s got has already contaminated the area. Therefore, the human race’s top experts on the dangers of infectious disease should be told about the unprecedented ground zero that just appeared. If anything exotic is found…you should probably take a minute to set your affairs in order because you’re gonna be quarantined indefinitely.

Your mind rushes to a sea of dollar signs. This thing could hold a copy of the Encyclopedia Galactica. Untold technological advances could be yours.

Imagine you are one of the brightest minds in Victorian England. A nuclear submarine is transported back in time – so obviously you start messing around to find what makes it tick. You extract the control rods / drums from the nuclear reactor. You just exposed an active highly radioactive core. No more London –  because no one knew about radioactivity back then. It gets worse if we are talking about invasion grade nano gray goo,  or terra-forming goo,  or Cthulu forbid something like a Kerr black hole energy storage.  And that’s just stuff we already know it’s possible. The only place you should experiment with alien technology is past the orbit of Pluto,  on an airless rock wired to the biggest, baddest bomb you can imagine and rigged to go off if something as much as twitches. Oh, and the rock should be on an escape trajectory from the solar system. But, that would be the smart thing to do, us humans rarely do the smart thing.

But it can be clearly and unmistakably identified as an alien craft, it does at least prove that we are not alone in the universe, which is an enormously important insight in itself. Your task should be, not to use or reverse-engineer the ship, but to make its very existence known.

Document it in every way possible before going public with your discovery. Photographs, films, reliable witnesses etc. etc. It is inevitable that the authorities will snatch the wreck as soon as they learn about it, but make sure they will never be able to put a lid on the story and pretend the whole thing never happened. They may not even try, despite the whole Roswell mythology about how the government will “always” suppress evidence of ET, but with a discovery of this magnitude, you shouldn’t take any chances. The authorities will try to study and reverse-engineer the ship, but as noted, this is almost certainly a futile pursuit. In any case, it is a job best left to the greatest scientists that can be found, not something you should attempt on your own.

What You Should Really Do.

Start by anonymously sharing very basic information about it with possible media outlets, scientists, and businesses. Be careful to maintain your anonymity, and do not mention aliens. Grab a digital camera and start taking as many detailed pictures as you can, ensure all of your pictures are in RAW and JPEG. Ensure that your pictures contain landmarks as well as evidence of the crash site itself there can be no question surrounding either the authenticity or providence of these pictures. Now you have 2 choices. Upload them all, RAW and JPEG, to somewhere they will be disseminated quickly and won’t be able to easily be taken down or removed by fraudulent DMCA notices (perhaps Reddit), or encrypt them and find a way to get them along with a written statement to some reputable journalist before the US Government shows up on your doorstep and you disappear (a la Edward Snowden).

Get feedback from all of those sources to figure out what your options are and who seems to be willing to interact with you in a safe way.

Then, it depends on whether you can separate any part of the craft to show the technology to people to get additional feedback and a sense for where a bigger reveal might land you. If you can’t, then share information carefully. Also, have an online lockbox with evidence and some kind of tracker on the craft that will provide information to your friends. So that in case someone kidnaps you or something else happens, you have some leverage or chance of being saved.

Or… If that’s too complicated, you could do some research on what researchers at a big university would be interested in and able to analyze unknown technology. And then very publicly take it to that university and tell everyone along the way to get a lot of attention, and so that there are a ton of cell phone videos and postings on the net. That way, too many people know about it for an easy cover up.

If you don’t do these simple things…Beg for your life. Seriously. Start begging. You aren’t begging to the aliens. You are begging to the very nice men and women who are about to show up in the SUVs with tinted windows. They WILL take it from you. They will take any photos or other evidence that you try and keep.  And lastly, they will take you.

If you are lucky you will undergo days of interrogation while being in quarantine and to liven up your days it will be interspersed with vigorous invasive medical testing.

After all that your choices are slim. 6-foot hole. 8 by 10 cell. Comfy padded room. Best case scenario, nondisclosure agreement, and release. Worst case scenario your body turns up in a ditch the victim of an apparent suicide.

You have to be smart about all this. Your life will never be the same. It is completely up to you if it will be a long and fruitful life or not.

Alien Autopsy of UFO Crash in Roswell

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NASA ontdekt zeven aarde-achtige planeten, leven mogelijk op drie ervan - HLN.be

Bron: Belga, ANP & The Washington Post

Belgische ontdekking krijgt bijzondere naam mee

© NASA.

VIDEO Op een drukbijgewoonde persconferentie heeft de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA deze avond bekendgemaakt dat er zeven aarde-achtige planeten zijn ontdekt rond de dwergster Trappist-1. Drie van die planeten bevinden zich dicht genoeg bij de warmte van de ster om leefbaar te zijn en lijken qua omvang op de aarde. "Buitenaards leven is dus mogelijk", klonk het. "De vraag is niet of we een tweede aarde zullen vinden, maar wel wanneer."

Lees ook

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• SpaceX lanceert met succes bevoorradingscapsule voor ISS
• Wetenschappers ontdekken levende bacteriën die 50.000 jaar oud kunnen zijn

De ontdekking is uniek, want nooit eerder werden zoveel exoplaneten - planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel - rond één ster gevonden. Bovendien lijken de planeten qua omvang op de aarde en bevinden ze zich op nog geen veertig lichtjaren afstand van onze planeet, en dat is in ons heelal "om de hoek".

De vondst heeft een Belgisch kantje, want het zijn Luikse astronomen die de vier op de aarde lijkende exoplaneten rond de dwergster Trappist-1 hebben ontdekt, nadat ze vorig jaar de eerste drie exoplaneten al hadden ontdekt.

Een team onder leiding van astronoom Michaël Gillon, verbonden aan de universiteit van Luik, had eind 2015 immers al een nieuw planetair systeem waargenomen. De ster werd Trappist-1 gedoopt en is veel kleiner en kouder dan onze zon. Gillon gebruikte hiervoor de 'TRAnsiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST)' in Chili, maar de naam is evenzeer een knipoog naar ons land.

Rotsen en water
Rond de ster werden toen ook al drie exoplaneten ontdekt, die qua temperatuur en omvang vergelijkbaar zijn met de aarde. Nu hebben de astronomen met behulp van NASA-telescoop Spitzer dus nog vier andere planeten rond Trappist-1 ontdekt, die eveneens qua afmeting vergelijkbaar zijn met onze aardbol. De in totaal zeven planeten werden, afhankelijk van hun afstand tot de ster, Trappist-1b, c, d, e, f, g en h gedoopt. Drie van die zeven bevinden zich volgens de wetenschappers in de "bewoonbare zone", namelijk op een afstand waar een rotsachtige planeet grote hoeveelheden vloeibaar water zou kunnen bevatten. 

"Ter vergelijking, ons zonnestelsel telt twee planeten met omvang van de aarde. Slechts één daarvan, onze planeet, bevindt zich in een bewoonbare zone. Met drie planeten die aan die voorwaarden voldoen, lijkt Trappist-1 een ongelooflijk rijk planetair systeem te zijn", zegt Gillon. 

De onderzoekers zullen hun observaties voortzetten. Ze hopen binnenkort meer informatie te krijgen over de massa van de planeten en over het bestaan en de grootte van hun atmosfeer (lees verder onder de video).

Belgische delicatesses

U hebt allicht al moeten gniffelen bij de naam die aan de ster gegeven werd, maar ze werd inderdaad - naar analogie met de astronoom die ze heeft ontdekt - vernoemd naar een Belgische delicatesse, het trappistbier. 

En er is nog meer opvallends. Ook het project zelf verwijst naar een Belgische lekkernij: de speculoos. Want Gillons onderzoek naar exoplaneten heet officieel 'Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl-Stars', of SPECULOOS. 

Onder meer de Amerikaanse krant 'The Washington Post' liet zich al op een grapje betrappen: "Like Trappist beer, speculoos cookies are a Belgian delicacy. His next effort will have to be called WAFFLES" of "Hoe zal de volgende ontdekking worden genoemd: 'Wafels'?

Welke naam de zeven nieuwe planeten zullen meekrijgen, is nog niet geweten. Gillon zelf opperde tijdens de persconferentie ze te vernoemen naar Belgische bieren.

Gigantisch aantal
In de afgelopen jaren zijn bijna 3.500 planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel ontdekt. Daarnaast zijn er bijna 4.700 potentiële exoplaneten. Van al die planeten zitten er 44 in de leefbare zone. Maar wetenschappers zijn pas net begonnen met zoeken en tellen. Het werkelijke aantal exoplaneten ligt waarschijnlijk veel hoger. Alleen al in onze Melkweg zijn naar schatting honderden miljarden sterren, en er zijn honderden miljarden sterrenstelsels in het heelal. En waarschijnlijk hebben vrijwel al die sterren planeten om zich heen draaien.

Collection of UFO Sightings By Streetcap1 Over The Years, Feb 23, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Unknown
Location of sighting: Space station

Here is a great collection of the best UFOs caught by Streetcap1 of Youtube. It has some very interesting sightings near the space station that have always gone unanswered by NASA. For some reason, NASA will not respond when asked about these UFOs near the space station and probably never will. To talk about it is to bring attention to it. Thats the opposite to what they want. They want you to ignore it, but thats not going to happen.
Scott C. Waring

Streetcap1 states:

This is a selection of ufos I have uploaded in the past. They had very little views and I feel that people need to see them. The final picture ( also thumbnail ) was uploaded a few years ago on a small video with a NASA link. Within 12 hours, the picture had been changed and a different photo of the moon, without huge object had replaced it. Of course I was accused of fraud by trolls as it did not show in the linked photo. I eventually removed the video. I am uploading a section of it today, it's up to you if you believe that an object this big, preceded the moon landings by two years. Streetcap1.

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Edges Of UFO Appear During Thunderstorm On Feb 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 2017
Location of sighting: Unknown

This UFO is seen because the energy from the thunderstorm is gathering around the edge of the disk, allowing us to see the outer edge. This is not a ring UFO, but a disk UFO. Unfortunately the guy recording shakes like he just ran to the top of a hill or something to get a better view...its hard to say for sure, but its irritating. 
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states: 

During a recent thunderstorm in the US a UFO appeared. It's not clear whether the UFO got hit by the lightning strike or whether it was using the lightning for it's energy. After the lightning strike the UFO becomes visible for a 30 seconds and illuminates the sky and the surrounding area. Then a second lightning strike is heard and the UFO dissappears. When the UFO disappears the area turns dark again. I made a short video analysis of the footage to explain what happened.

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Glowing White Orb Over Cypress, Texas On Feb 22, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 22, 2017
Location of sighting: Cypress, Texas, USA
Source: MUFON #82278

This video is short but shows the glowing object in the sky over Texas this week. The UFO is very bright and has an orb shape to it. I only wish he had recorded more so we could see it move.
Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

I was out riding my Harley and saw a strange light in sky. Pulled over and noticed it was very bright and no flashing lights. No stars visible in sky plus this was too close. Filmed and took pictures for about 45 minutes. It never moved very much. It was spinning and had structural design. Very similar to ufo's on tv. I felt very curious about it. Called my wife, she went outside and saw it too. I was also with my friend who witnessed it also. I have many more photos and lots of video that wouldn't upload. This was taken with an iPhone 7 plus with a telephoto camera. It was still there when we got home and I don't know when it left.

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Amazing sighting caught on tape over Nevada – near Area 51

This interestin UFO video was caught on tape over Summerlin, Nevada back in July 2015, but it was just posted online recently. What do you think about this footage?

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Roswell UFO expert challenges a review of Area 51 book

Posted by: Stanton Friedman 

Stanton Friedman in Roswell, July 2010.

(image credit: Alejandor Rojas)

I rarely review other people’s reviews except of my own books. But I think I need to make an exception. Two very scholarly sounding experts have reviewed at great length Annie Jacobsen’s strangely inaccurate and misleading book “Area 51” on their site Washington Decoded. It supposedly tells all about the mysterious highly classified base not far from Las Vegas, In addition it provides an entirely new and totally unsubstantiated and unbelievable explanation for the Roswell Incident. I ,too, reviewed the book in one of my monthly columns and could frankly find nothing to support  her extraordinary claim that beings manipulated by Joseph Mengele (in cooperation with Joseph Stalin) somehow piloted a German Horton Brothers flying wing vehicle to crash near Roswell to panic America..

In this instance two very formidable sounding professionals,  Dr.  Robert S. Norris and  Dr. Jeffrey T. Richelson, recently published a very lengthy negative review of her book and also  managed to somehow demonstrate the intellectual bankruptcy of the pseudo science of anti-ufology. They correctly note that she made no reference to a host of directly applicable sources and made loads of factual mistakes re Area 51 related matters. Then, amazingly, they commit many errors of omission and commission about Roswell and surprisingly some other items and also libel me. And frankly I am angry.

Area 51 book cover

I was surprised at some gaps in their knowledge. For example, they noted that Annie three different times falsely referred to a hero of mine, Dr. Vannevar Bush, as head of the Manhattan Project. That distinction fell to General Leslie Groves for the Army Corps of Engineers and the technical director, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. But then they refer to Bush only as “Science Adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt and as such was chairman of a 3 member oversight committee known as the military Policy Committee, that usually rubber stamped decisions that Groves had already made.”. Their major source about Bush was G. Pascal Zachary, “Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century”. Zachary was a reporter for the Wall Street journal and as far as I could tell did not know much about Bush’s highly classified activities. One would think that the fact that VB was head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during the war might have been noted. Thousands of engineers and scientists worked on projects funded by the OSRD. These included such important developments as that of the proximity fuse, radar, and indeed the Manhattan Engineering District. Their description is a bit like referring to Harry Truman as a Missouri haberdasher and ignoring his service in the US Senate and as US President.

They refer to only 3 Roswell books,(and touted debunkers like Phil Klass) none of them by serious researchers who searched for and interviewed first hand witnesses, visited archives and crash sites, etc There is no mention of such books as “The Roswell Incident” by Charles Berlitz and William Moore and to which I was a major contributor;“The Truth about the Roswell Incident”  and ”The Real Truth about the Roswell Incident”, by Don Schmitt, and Kevin Randle, “Crash at Corona”,by Don Berliner” and myself and “Witness to Roswell” by Don Schmitt and Tom Carey .etc. They were aware of my existence as shall be noted later, but misrepresented my background and ignored a bunch of papers which I have published besides my books. They are upset that Annie repeats a nice comment about me by Larry King, but obviously couldn’t be bothered checking out me or my publications.

Vannevar Bushµ

(image credit: U.S. Library of Congress)

They state “Strewn throughout her story, moreover are numerous mistakes and questionable claims”. That is certainly true. But it is true of them as well. They blindly accept the 2 big Government Roswell volumes seemingly accepting everything in them as Gospel though many errors have been described for many years.

Here is how they describe the Roswell Incident ”… refers to some metallic debris that was found on 7 July 1947 at a ranch approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. The rancher who discovered it contacted the local sheriff who contacted Roswell Army Air Field. Several Intelligence officers were sent and collected portion of the debris and took it to Roswell AAF that evening. The next day, the public information officer released a statement saying that a flying disc had been recovered. The front page headline of the July 8 edition of the Roswell Daily Record was “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region”. The debris was then flown to 8^th Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF in Texas and inspected. The conclusion was that the debris was the remnants of a weather balloon”. Later they said it was a balloon… since when are balloons made of metal??

The facts indicate that this is much less than accurate. In the first place the rancher had found the debris within a few days prior to Saturday, July 5, when he went to Corona and showed some to friends at the General Store there. The Rancher did not get a newspaper and had no phone and had not heard about flying saucers until the people in Corona told him about them and that there was a reward out for pieces. They suggested he go to the Sheriff in Roswell. He took a small portion of what was on the huge debris field to Sheriff Wilcox on July 6. The sheriff contacted RAAF and spoke with Major Jesse Marcel who actually handled the wreckage and was ordered by his boss Colonel William Blanchard to take a Counter Intelligence officer with him and follow the rancher to his place out miles from any road. They spent the night, viewed the debris field the next day, and brought back a small portion in their vehicles. Colonel Blanchard then ordered Major Marcel to have one of their B-29s take him and the wreckage to Wright field making a stop at their headquarters in Fort Worth. Somehow not only are the dates and sequence fouled up, but no mention is made of the fact that the Roswell group, the 509^th was the most elite military group in the world having dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 and 2 more during Operation Crossroads in 1946. Blanchard went on to receive 4 more promotions and was a 4 star general serving as Vice-chief of Staff of the USAF when he died of a massive heart attack at the Pentagon. He had served as Operations office for the Strategic Air Command when it had thousands of nuclear warheads at its disposal. Marcel was the intelligence officer of this most elite group. Both Marcel and Blanchard were very familiar with weather balloons since they were launched every day at the base,and would have immediately recognized the wreckage as such. Marcel handled the strange wreckage in Roswell. He would never have been sent out   without noting that the material was very strange.  Norris and Richelson praise highly, “The Roswell Report: Truth Versus fiction in the Roswell Desert” (by Disinformation specialist Colonel Weaver) without noting all the fiction supplied by the Air Force. For example, it claims it was Project Mogul, a Top Secret Program, launched 4 June. The fact is that the original newspaper accounts (the story appeared and grew in evening papers from Chicago West.) say the wreckage was found “last week” .The rancher had been in the area just days before. Outstanding research by Dr. David Rudiak showed it could not have been that Mogul launch. The program was not TOP secret. Only the purpose was TS. If it had been TS, there would have been a chase plane along at each launch and the balloons and equipment would never have been allowed to remain in the desert.

The foolish claim was made that the huge report was a declassification effort. It was a propaganda effort.

Norris and Richelson foolishly state the balloons were made of special material. They were standard neoprene weather balloons. They speak very enthusiastically of the Air Force report and seem not to have caught any of its many mistakes. For example it states a National Enquirer article about Marcel appeared in 1978. It was actually in 1980 and was a result of my putting outstanding journalist Robert Pratt in touch with Jesse Marcel because the first Book “The Roswell Incident” was due to be published.

The report makes it sound as though I worked separately from Berlitz and Moore and got my ideas from the Enquirer, when I actually worked very closely with Moore for years. I told Moore about Roswell.  They mention a strange grossly misleading book by three professors which also insinuated that Marcel was paid by the Enquirer. Of course none of these debunkers give any information about my background. To the USAF I am a UFO researcher. To Norris and Richelson I am “a UFO conspiracy Theorist.” No mention that I am a nuclear physicist, that I worked on classified advanced technology programs for 14 years for GE,GM, Westinghouse, Aerojet General Nucleonics etc. or that I have visited 20 different Archives , many times they claim that any ”positive reputation Friedman has is apparently restricted to those who believe in UFOs and Extraterrestrials.”

No source is given for these nonsensical charges. They might have mentioned that I belong to the American Nuclear Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Physical Society. No mention that I have lectured on topics such as “Flying Saucers ARE Real” and or “Flying Saucers and Science” to more than 700 colleges and professional groups in all 50 states, all 10 Canadian provinces and 18 other countries. I have had loads of favorable comments from these institutions. Are all of these “believers in UFOs and Extraterrestrials?” There is no mention of all the evidence I have provided such as dozens of TOP Secret almost completely blacked out CIA UFO documents, or 156 almost completed whited out NSA UFO documents. Seemingly they are unaware of the comments made by USAF General Carroll Bolender  “Reports of UFOs which could affect national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or USAF Manual  55-11 and are NOT part of the Blue Book System” and “Termination of Project Blue Book would leave no official federal office to receive reports of UFOs. However, as already stated, reports of UFOs which could affect national security would continue to be handled through the standard Air Force procedures designed for this purpose.” I located and spoke with General Bolender. I would bet these guys never heard of him. Obviously the USAF has been lying ever since his October 20, 1969, memo which resulted in the closure of Project Blue Book. The USAF has since then falsely claimed there is no national security concern with UFOs and they have been doing nothing about them. They don’t mention the Congressional UFO Symposium of July 29, 1968, which involved 12 presentations by scientists including me, or the biggest study ever done for the USAF, Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14. Of course, like Jacobsen they are guilty of “authorial malpractice.”

Norris and Richelson also buy into the 2^nd foolish USAF volume “The Roswell Report: Case Closed”. “The aliens observed in the New Mexico desert were probably anthropomorphic test dummies that were carried aloft by high altitude balloons. Some 43 high altitude balloon flights were launched and recovered throughout NM between June 1954 and February 1959.” Considering that the Roswell Incident occurred in July 1947 (Time travel, I guess) and the bodies, one of whose pictures is in the USAF Report, were 6’ tall and weighed 175 pounds, and was in a uniform and could not possibly have morphed even with time travel into a 4’ tall alien with a big head, one is astonished at their naivety. I talked to the head of the program, Colonel Madsen. Of course, he isn’t mentioned by them, nor did the USAF talk to him though they showed an old picture of him and one of the dummies.

In short, we have erudite people saying false and misleading things. I, of course, cannot know whether it is out of laziness, bias, ignorance or because they were conspiring to protect the reputation of the USAF. They owe us all an apology.

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UFO-spotters ontdekken iets mysterieus in video van Duitse straaljagers

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UFO-spotters ontdekken iets mysterieus in video van Duitse straaljagers

De video werd gemaakt toen enkele Duitse straaljagers uitvlogen om een vliegtuig dat op weg was naar Londen te begeleiden, nadat het toestel alle contact was verloren met de Duitse vluchtbegeleiders. Toen de beelden op Facebook werden gepubliceerd, regende het al snel commentaren van mensen die vonden dat er vreemds aan de hand was met de video. Een kijker schreef: “Geweldige video! Er vliegt trouwens een UFO door de wolken.” Volgens luchtvaartexperts is er niets aan de hand en zou het gewoon om de schaduw van een vliegtuig gaan dat hoger vliegt en dus niet op de beelden te zien is. Anderen zijn echter niet overtuigd door deze beweringen en beloofden al dat ze het vluchtplan van die dag zouden uitpluizen. De discussie woedt alvast voort, met ‘believers’ die opperen dat een vliegtuig niet zo snel kan vliegen aan de ene kant en sceptici die het hele verhaal onzin vinden aan de andere.

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Mogelijk sporen van donkere materie ontdekt in Andromedastelsel

Caroline Kraaijvanger

Gammastraling kan erop wijzen dat zich in het hart van het Andromedastelsel donkere materie ophoudt.

Het is een spannende ontdekking, vindt onderzoeker Pierrick Martin. “We verwachten dat donkere materie zich in de binnenste regionen van de Melkweg en andere sterrenstelsels verzamelt, daarom is het vinden van zo’n compact signaal heel opwindend.” Het compacte signaal waar Martin over spreekt, werd gedetecteerd met behulp van ruimtetelescoop Fermi. De telescoop speurt naar gammastraling en vond in het hart van het Andromedastelsel een bijzonder signaal.

Gammastraling
Gammastraling ontstaat doordat kosmische straling de interactie aangaat met gaswolken en het licht van sterren. De laatste gegevens van Fermi laten zien dat de gammastraling overvloedig aanwezig is in het hart van het Andromedastelsel. Die ongebruikelijke distributie van de gammastraling zag Fermi eerder ook in het hart van ons eigen sterrenstelsel: de Melkweg. En het kan erop wijzen dat in het hart van deze sterrenstelsels donkere materie huist.

Hier zie je de overvloed aan gammastraling (in geel en oranje/rood) in het hart van het Andromedastelsel.

Afbeelding: NASA / DOE / Fermi LAT Collaboration & Bill Schoening / Vanessa Harvey / REU program / NOAO / AURA / NSF.

Pulsars?
Helemaal zeker weten de onderzoekers dat dus niet. De gammastraling kan namelijk ook afkomstig zijn van een groot aantal pulsars in het hart van M31. Deze draaiende neutronensterren zijn ongeveer twee keer zo zwaar als de zon en hebben een ongelofelijk grote dichtheid. Omdat het Andromedastelsel zo’n 2,5 miljoen lichtjaar van ons verwijderd is, is het lastig om individuele pulsars in het hart van het stelsel te vinden. Toch zijn onderzoekers voornemens om uit te zoeken of pulsars de bron van de gammastraling kunnen zijn. En wel door onze kennis over pulsars in de Melkweg los te laten op nog te maken röntgen- en radio-observaties van het Andromedastelsel.

Mysteries
Of donkere materie nu verantwoordelijk is voor de distributie van donkere materie in het Andromedastelsel of niet: onderzoekers zijn in hun nopjes met de ontdekking. Met name omdat het signaal in het hart van het Andromedastelsel vergelijkbaar is met dat in het hart van onze eigen Melkweg. Het betekent namelijk dat onderzoekers deze informatie kunnen gebruiken om mysteries in het Andromedastelsel én de Melkweg op te lossen. Zo blijkt bijvoorbeeld dat de grote schijf van het Andromedastelsel – de plek waar de meeste sterren ontstaan – relatief weinig gammastraling afgeeft. Het suggereert dat zich daar weinig kosmische straling ophoudt. Maar kosmische straling wordt doorgaans in verband gebracht met stervorming. Hoe zit dat dan? Het wijst erop dat het Andromedastelsel op een andere manier kosmische straling produceert of dat de kosmische straling sneller aan dit stelsel weet te ontsnappen. “We begrijpen niet helemaal welke rol kosmische straling in sterrenstelsel speelt of hoe de straling door deze sterrenstelsels reist,” vertelt onderzoeker Xian Hou. “M31 (het Andromedastelsel, red.) laat zien hoe kosmische straling zich gedraagt onder omstandigheden die anders zijn dan de omstandigheden in ons eigen sterrenstelsel.”

Dat er overeenkomsten zijn in de distributie van gammastraling in de Melkweg en het Andromedastelsel suggereert bovendien dat we door het Andromedastelsel te bestuderen, meer te weten kunnen komen over onze eigen Melkweg. En dat is goed nieuws. Want niet alle delen van de Melkweg zijn vanuit het sterrenstelsel zelf goed te bekijken. “Ons sterrenstelsel lijkt zo sterk op het Andromedastelsel dat we er echt baat bij hebben om het (Andromedastelsel, red.) te bestuderen, omdat we zo meer kunnen leren over ons sterrenstelsel en de totstandkoming ervan,” vertelt onderzoeker Regina Caputo.

Bronmateriaal:

"NASA's Fermi Finds Possible Dark Matter Ties in Andromeda Galaxy" - NASA

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Was Gary McKinnon right? ‘SECRET space fleet filmed at US Airforce base’

A UFO hunter who claims to have filmed activity at a top-secret US Airforce base for THREE YEARS, claims space craft are regularly flying out from there.

CIA Used Remote Viewing to Learn about Mars Pyramids & Inhabitants

WRITTEN BY DR MICHAEL SALLA

A declassified Central Intelligence Agency document reveals that in 1984, the CIA employed a psychic “remote viewer” to look at a region of Mars as it was approximately one million years ago. The remote viewer, who was not aware that the coordinates given were on the planet Mars, described seeing pyramids, futuristic technologies and a very tall human-looking civilization facing impending environmental calamity.

Small part of the Cydonia region, taken by the Viking 1 orbiter and released by NASA/JPL on July 25, 1976

What makes the CIA documentremarkable is that the coordinates provided to the unknown remote viewer were of the Cydonia region as depicted in a series of Viking Orbiter images of Mars in 1976. Cydonia became famous after a succession of researchers claimed that the region contained a face, ruins of a city, and pyramids.

The first reference to artificial structures found in Cydonia date to an October 25, 1977, National Enquirer article titled “Did NASA Photograph Ruins of an Ancient City on Mars?”  It’s worth pointing out that the Enquirer was a tabloid run by Gene Pope, a CIA asset who was trained in psychological warfare.

Pope and the National Enquirer’s chief purpose was to hide the truth in plain sight by releasing it in sensationalized news stories with questionable sources that would be widely ridiculed by the general public. Subsequently, any academics or scientists prepared to investigate such sensational claims faced ridicule from their peers and ruining their professional careers.

Nevertheless, competent researchers did turn their attention to the now controversial Viking Orbiter images and found that they indeed did appear to show an artificially created “Face on Mars”, nearby ruins dubbed “Inca City”, and even pyramids.

The first objective analysis of the Viking data was published in 1982 in Omni Magazine by the researchers Vincent DiPietro, an electrical engineer, and Gregory Molenaar, a computer engineer. Their 1982 Omni article was an extract of their 77-page book, Unusual Martian Surface Features, also released that year. They were soon followed by other independent researchers such as Richard Hoagland who in 1987 authored The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever.

What this short review of the history of the Viking images of Cydonia tells us is that while researchers such as DiPietro, Molenaar and Hoagland were widely ridiculed by their scientific peers for their analyses and conclusions, the CIA was paying very close attention.

Declassified CIA documents confirm that remote viewing was taken very seriously by the Agency and other intelligence services. Significant funding went into studying the usefulness of remote viewing as an intelligence gathering tool.

The conclusion was that remote viewing had sufficient accuracy to be utilized for field work as the following declassified CIA document dated May 9, 1984 clearly states. ­­

Among the most accurate of remote viewers described in the CIA documents was the famed psychic Ingo Swann. In his 1998 book, Penetration, Swann described at length how the CIA utilized his remote viewing skills.

One assignment in 1975 was to spy on secret bases on the Moon, which were run by one or more extraterrestrial civilizations. In chapter five, Swann opens by describing his remote viewing of the Moon for Axelrod/Axel, a CIA officer:

Given the earlier off-planet locations assigned to top remote viewers like Swann, it is not surprising that the CIA employed a remote viewer to learn about the origins of the pyramids and other artificial Mars structures in the Cydonia region.

The protocol used for the session is described on page 2 of the CIA document, which is dated May 22, 1984:

The rest of the CIA document (pp. 3-9) is a transcript of the remote viewer responding to questions about different locations and time periods given to him (in 1984, all known remote reviewers were men). The remote viewer is referred to as “SUB.,” while the questioner is “MON.”

This is what the remote viewer reports after being given his first question:

The coordinates are for the Cydonia region, and immediately the remote viewer describes some kind of pyramid sitting in a valley. This is remarkable corroboration for the multiple researchers who have identified pyramids in the Viking images of this exact region of Mars.

Next, the remote viewer responds to a serious of questions concerning the population living in the region shortly before planet-wide geological disturbances that occurred approximately one million years ago. He describes the population as very tall and thin, and looking to escape the disturbances which included very violent storm activity:

The Martian civilization is dying and the population knows about it:

The Martians are waiting to travel elsewhere to survive. Some are able to escape to distant regions, presumably off-planet, as the following quote suggests:

Next, the remote viewer describes what clearly appears to be a spacecraft taking survivors to another planet over a million years ago:

The above description is very suggestive of what Earth may have looked like at the time. So did escaping Martians travel to Earth approximately a million years ago leaving behind them pyramids and other ruins in the Cydonia region, which were observed by the Viking orbiter in 1976 and the CIA’s remote viewer in 1984?

Continued in Part 2

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Further Reading

• CIA Sanctioned Disclosure of Time Travel & Mars Bases in 2016 Presidential Bid
• US Congress Passes Bill Protecting Slave Labor on Mars & Corporate Space Colonies
• German Secret Societies Colonized Mars in 1940s 
• Secret Mars Colonies Trade with up to 900 Extraterrestrial Civilizations
• Whistleblowers reveal breathable air on Mars & secret corporate bases

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Did Martian Refugees Settle in Antarctica over a Million Years Ago?

Dr Michael Salla » Exopolitics

The remote viewing of Mars revealed in a May 22, 1984 CIA document gives details of a planet wide-catastrophe that led to many refugees leaving in spacecraft to safer locations over a million years ago. This leads to the intriguing possibility that a flash-frozen civilization recently found in Antarctica with cannibalized spacecraft nearby was the remnants of a colony originally established by Martian refugees.

Such a scenario is consistent with the claims of Secret Space Program whistleblower Corey Goode who says that extraterrestrial refugees have been finding sanctuary on Earth for at least five hundred thousand years, and that preparations are currently underway to officially disclose excavations of a flash-frozen Antarctica civilization.

Back in March 28, 2016, Goode described various insider sources that had told him about the influx of refugees from other planets during Earth’s history:

And it seems that more recent information that I’ve gotten is telling us that the Earth received refugees, at different points in history, from a couple of different planets, at least, in our solar system where the planets failed and inhabitants left and came to Earth as refugees.

Goode said that Mars was one of the planets from which the refugees originated. The Martians were highly advanced technologically with antigravity spacecraft. They engaged in aggressive warfare that led to planetary catastrophe and refugees leaving for Earth. Goode relates what he was told by inhabitants of the “Inner Earth”:

And the people in the Inner Earth Council stated that the different inhabitants of the planets in our solar system were extremely advanced technologically and extremely aggressive, and that they destroyed their civilizations and had to be relocated here as refugees by other ET races that came in.

According to Goode, Mars in particular was hit by a series of environmental catastrophes that were related to devastating wars with the inhabitants of a nearby “Super Earth”, around which both Mars and our current Moon orbited up to 500,000 years ago. The “Super Earth” orbited the sun in the area of the asteroid belt as it exists today between Mars and Jupiter.

Mars at the time had abundant water and oxygen rich atmosphere to host a large population on its surface. The existence of abundant water and oxygen on Mars in its distant past has been recentlycorroborated by scientists.

The events that led to the Super Earth’s destruction also wiped out much of the surface population on Mars, and removed the bulk of its atmosphere according to what Goode read on “smart glass pads”, which he had access to during his 20 year secret space program service.

It was postulated that Mars was most likely a moon of that Super Earth, and that it was damaged heavily on one side by massive impacts. And that most likely also stripped away its main atmosphere at the time, and it never recovered.

The force of the Super Earth’s destruction propelled Mars into its present planetary orbit.

So was there a Super Earth that was destroyed in a titanic battle, which resulted in one of its moons being sent into Earth orbit, and another being sent into its present orbit as the planet Mars?

The first major scientist to seriously research the possibility that the asteroid belt is the remains of a former planet is Dr. Thomas Van Flandern, who was the chief astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory. He wrote several academic papers on what he described as the “Exploded Planet Hypothesis”, which suggested that the main asteroid belt in our solar system arose from the destruction of a large planet around which Mars once orbited:

Putting all this evidence together, we have strong hints for two original planets near what is now the main asteroid belt: hypothetical “Planet V” and “Planet K”. These were probably gas giant planets with moons of significant size, such as Mars, before they exploded… The above summarizes evidence that Mars was not an original planet, but rather a moon of a now-exploded planet occupying that approximate orbit. Many of these points are the expected consequences of having a massive planet blow up nearby, thereby blasting the facing hemisphere and leaving the shielded hemisphere relatively unscathed. Especially significant in this regard is the fact that half of Mars is saturated with craters, and half is only sparsely cratered.

Van Flandern’s Exploded Planet Hypothesis lends scientific support to Goode’s claims about both the Moon and Mars being two former moons of a Super Earth. The CIA’s remote viewer’s claims of the history of Mars is therefore supported to varying extents by both Goode and Van Flandern’s information.

The remote viewer, as discussed in part one, described a planet with violent storms and volcanic activity that was very green. This certainly sounds like Earth, which at the time was likely the only planet in our solar system that would fit such a description. This leads to the question of whether the escaping Martians established colonies on Earth, at least one of which was in Antarctica.

In the remote viewers’ description of Mars, he described them as very tall and thin, and also possessing spacecraft used to transport refugees to the safe location – Earth. This is consistent with what Goode claims to have encountered when he was taken to Antarctica in early January 2017 to see first-hand what was being secretly excavated.

In a January 24 private briefing, Goode confirmed his earlier reports about a “Pre-Adamite civilization” found flash-frozen in Antarctica which was very tall and thin. He described three 30 mile long oval-shaped spacecraft nearby that appeared to have been cannibalized.

Artist Depiction of Pre-Adamites. Permission: Sphere Being Alliance

Such large ships would have been ideal space arks carrying many thousands of fleeing Martians as described by the remote viewer.

In earlier interviews, Goode described being taken into the interior of Antarctica, well under two miles of ice, and witnessed that it was volcanically very active, and that abundant thermal energy was available to be used as a power source. In the following graphic illustration of what he witnessed at a secret Antarctica base, the steam vents show the intense thermal energy used as a power source.

Permission: Sphere Being Alliance

Goode’s description of continued volcanic activity in Antarctica  is supported by abundant scientific evidence. For example, on February 19, an NPR report discussed NASA scientists conducting experiments around Mount Erebus due to flowing lava under its icy exterior, which they believe is similar to what is likely to be encountered by NASA probes on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.

Mt Erebus, Antarctica

Also, a second volcano was discovered under half a mile of Antarctic ice which is also still active and can erupt at any time.

Goode’s accounts of what he witnessed in Antarctica during separate visits is consistent with the scenario described by the CIA’s remote viewer. The Martians had to flee their dying world on spacecraft to another planet – Earth  – that was volcanically very active at the time. Apparently, Antarctica, if it was chosen as a safe location for a colony of the refugee Martians, was located in a more tropical location that was both very green and volcanically active approximately one million years ago.

The descendants of the Martian refugees living in Antarctica were apparently caught off-guard by a sudden “pole shift” that happened approximately 12,000 years ago and led to them being flash-frozen.

Goode has said that major announcements about discoveries in Antarctica are forthcoming which are expected to release some but not all of the truth about the discovered flash frozen civilization. His claim is supported by internet mining expert Cliff High whose “predictive linguistics” model led him to conclude in January that major announcements about Antarctic discoveries are forthcoming.

If refugee Martians did flee to Earth a million years ago and settled in Antarctica, official disclosure of these events would revolutionize our understanding of world history. The digital release of declassified CIA documents detailing remote viewing experiments do contribute in an incremental way to the disclosure process. The truth about historic events in Antarctica would help significantly in our global civilization avoiding a similar fate to what prior civilizations have encountered on Earth and elsewhere in our solar system.

© Michael E. Salla, Ph.D. Copyright Notice

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Further Reading

• Moon is Artificial & Arrived with Refugees from Destroyed Planet in Asteroid Belt
• Visit to Antarctica Confirms Discovery of Flash Frozen Alien Civilization
• Will President Trump Disclose Antarctica Discovery to Start Economic Boom?
• Impending Announcement of Ruins from Futuristic Civilization Found in Antarctica
• Secret Space Programs Battle over Antarctic Skies During Global Elite Exodus
• Reptilian Aliens Helped Nazi Germany Build Secret Space Program in Antarctica

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UFO IN WICHITA, KANSAS MAKING SOME PRETTY STRANGE MOVEMENTS

A Redditor posted a time lapse from the skies in Wichita (Kansas). When he reviewed the footage at home, he saw a strange pattern of lights appear on his photographs. 

His initial thought was that it must be a regular plane, except, the object makes some pretty unbelievable turns. Also the acceleration of the object is astounding. Note that the timelapse exists out of 8 seperate images and all images were taken in about 14 minutes in total. This is almost 2 minutes per photo. 

If you look up other plane trails in the night sky, you'll be bombarded with them. But not one is making the same kind of steep turn. 

The creator of the video (not the Redditor who posted the time lapse) estimated that he was facing the city of Wichita and thus the Air Force base.

Could this just be an F-16 stationed at the air force base or is this a UFO? 

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Hull man who saw 'leapfrogging' lights over Bransholme to hold UFO convention

By Kevin Shoesmith

STRANGE ENCOUNTERS: Chris Evers will be putting on the UFO convention this year

He said: "Thirty years ago the only planets that we knew about were in our solar system. Since then, at least five or six thousand planets, not in our solar system, have been discovered. Based on these figures, there must surely be intelligence life forms out there."

Mr Evers has turned his passion into a career, and is editor of his own free online magazine, Outer Limits, that is read in 57 countries.

More news: Storm Doris to batter Hull with heavy rain and 80mph gales

His interest was sparked by a chance encounter as a young man in Bransholme.

"I saw two, bright lights leapfrogging each other in the sky," he said. "At that time, you'd often see aircraft flying over Bransholme - but they didn't move like an aircraft."

SPOOKY: Chris Evers saw 'leapfrogging lights' over Bransholme

Five speakers are booked for the all-day convention, including local historian Mike Covell, who has conducted extensive research into UFO reports, and Paul Sinclair and Russel Callaghan, who have both written extensively on the subject. It will take place on September 9 at the Freedom Centre, in Preston Road.

Mr Evers, now of west Hull, said: "Mike will be looking back to 1801, when the region's first UFO sighting was recorded in Hull."

The common misconception is that UFO sightings began in America in 1947, when Kenneth Arnold saw unidentified objects flying over the Cascade Mountains, Mr Covell previously told the Mail. The famous Roswell incident – when an alien craft supposedly crashed in New Mexico – happened the same year.

However, in 1801 Hull and the Humber featured in the local and national press, as well as science periodicals, when a fiery object appeared in the sky, bathing the city in blue light.

SIGHTING: An extract from a Hull Packet report from 1801

According to a report in the Hull Packet, a precursor to the Hull Daily Mail, after its initial disappearance, the UFO reappeared "looking like the face of the moon", before splitting into five circular balls of light.

One of the strangest cases centered on a report that a UFO landed in a park on the city's Longhill estate. Mr Covell's research reveals that on November 15, 1967, a group of Hull children saw a cigar-shaped craft descend and hover over the park, leaving burn marks on a hill.

Two police officers visited the 'landing site' and noticed burn marks on the hill but no sign of any such craft, according to Mr Covell. Initially they thought the children had been up to no good but their stories were said to have been very consistent.

Tickets cost £10 and are available directly from Mr Evers on 07962 397209.

More news: How a staff survey led to Justine Curran's Humberside Police exit

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NASA DISCOVERED 7 PLANETS THAT COULD BE SUITABLE FOR LIFE

POSTED BY DERRICK ROSSIGNOL

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NASA, Space

Searching for Life on 7 Nearby Alien Worlds: How Scientists Will Do It

The hunt for signs of life on seven nearby exoplanets will likely begin just a few years from now.

An international research team announced today (Feb. 22) that seven roughly Earth-size alien worlds orbit the small, dim star TRAPPIST-1, which lies just 39 light-years from Earth. (For perspective: Our Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light-years wide. The closest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.2 light-years away.)

Three of these planets appear to be in TRAPPIST-1's "habitable zone," the range of distances where liquid water (and, by extension, life as we know it) could potentially exist on a world's surface. And all seven may be capable of harboring water, given certain atmospheric conditions, study team members said. [Images: The 7 Earth-Size Worlds of TRAPPIST-1]

This combination of proximity and potential habitability makes TRAPPIST-1 an inviting target in the search for E.T.

"Looking for life elsewhere, this system is probably our best bet as of today," study co-author Brice-Olivier Demory, a professor at the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern in Switzerland, said in a statement.

Characteristics of the seven TRAPPIST-1 worlds, compared to the rocky planets in our solar system.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Follow-up investigation of the TRAPPIST-1 worlds has already begun. For example, last year, observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revealed that the two innermost planets do not possess large, puffy atmospheres, suggesting that the worlds are rocky rather than gaseous. (The discovery team announced in May 2016 that TRAPPIST-1 hosts three roughly Earth-size planets; the new study, which was published in the journal Nature, identifies a total of seven worlds orbiting the star.)

The team continues to study the TRAPPIST-1 system with Hubble. But such work can characterize atmospheres only in a relatively broad sense; the hunt for possible signatures of life such as oxygen and methane will require new instruments, the researchers said.

Luckily, such gear will be online soon. NASA's $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is scheduled to launch in late 2018, and three huge ground-based instruments — the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) — should start observing the heavens by the early to mid-2020s.

Indeed, the TRAPPIST-1 system will likely be one of the first targets for JWST once the telescope is operational, Nikole Lewis, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore and co-leader of the 2016 Hubble study, said during a press briefing today. JWST's observations should allow astronomers to get a good handle on the TRAPPIST-1 planets' atmospheres by the early 2020s, Lewis added.

JWST, E-ELT, GMT and TMT will all be capable of sniffing out "biosignature" gases, their builders have said. (The big ground-based scopes will also be able to image a number of exoplanets directly, but the TRAPPIST-1 worlds aren't good candidates for such photography because they're so close to their parent star, study team members said.)

Detecting either oxygen or methane by itself in a planet's atmosphere wouldn't be compelling evidence of alien life, because both of these gases can be produced by abiotic as well as biotic processes, astronomers have stressed. Finding the two of them together, however, would be a different story.

"They destroy each other," Shawn Domagal-Goldman, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said in 2014 during a NASA panel discussion about ancient Earth and habitable exoplanets. "If they're both there together, you know someone is bringing the methane in an atmosphere rich in oxygen, so that's what you're looking for. The most likely explanation is, it's life that's bringing the methane and oxygen to the party."

Artist's illustration of the surface of a planet in the TRAPPIST-1 system, which hosts seven roughly Earth-size worlds.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

So astronomers will likely search for methane, oxygen and other gas combos in the skies of the TRAPPIST-1 worlds when JWST and the big ground scopes become operational. But even success on this front would not necessarily provide universally accepted, slam-dunk evidence for life, said Michaël Gillon of the University of Liège in Belgium, leader of the new TRAPPIST-1 study.

"We will never be 100 percent sure until we go there, or get something," Gillon told reporters Tuesday (Feb. 21). (By "get something," he meant a signal from an alien civilization.)

A robotic probe won't be zooming through the TRAPPIST-1 system anytime soon, but this prospect is not out of the question. Last year, a team of scientists and engineers announced the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot project, which aims to develop the technology required to blast tiny, sail-equipped probes through space at up to 20 percent the speed of light using powerful lasers.

If Breakthrough Starshot pans out, such spacecraft could conceivably make it to the TRAPPIST-1 system about 200 years after lifting off.

Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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NASA Found A Solar System With Many Earth-Like Planets That Could Host Potential Alien Life

By Ahmed Bilal

Researchers working worldwide have been fascinated with exoplanets for a long time now. Today (as announced in an earlier post) scientists at a NASA conference announced some great new discoveries that were made. The search for life beyond Earth has continued for a long time and the researchers have made a breakthrough discovery in which they have found a planetary system with a number of Earth-sized planets. These planets discovered could potentially host liquid water and as I’ve said before, where liquid water is present life usually follows.

Potential life forms may exist beyond our Solar System

The scientists working with telescopes at the European Southern Observatory and NASA announced an entire system of Earth-sized planets. Knowing that they are Earth-sized is not enough, what’s more intriguing is the fact that density measurements of the planets indicate that six innermost are Earth-like rocky worlds.

If you’re still not excited then this is just the beginning, three of the planets discovered lie in a star’s habitable zone. The term might be familiar to some of you, but if it isn’t then the habitable or goldilocks zone as it is sometimes called, is the region around a star where a planet would be able to have liquid water. This essentially means that three of these alien planets may have entire oceans of water and this brings us back to the theory of increased probability of life forms in liquid water filled areas.

This system has the largest number of Earth-sized planets

Other planets discovered may not have oceans of water but the team of researchers stated that liquid water is still a genuine possibility on those planets. The lead author, Michaël Gillon, stated that this newly discovered system has the largest number of Earth-sized planets ever found. In addition to this it also has the largest number of worlds that could support liquid water:

“This is an amazing planetary system — not only because we have found so many planets, but because they are all surprisingly similar in size to the Earth!”

The co-author of the search, Amaury Triaud, stated that the star in this system is an “ultra-cool dwarf,” he also clarified what this means relating to the planets:

“The energy output from dwarf stars like TRAPPIST-1 is much weaker than that of our Sun. Planets would need to be in far closer orbits than we see in the Solar System if there is to be surface water. Fortunately, it seems that this kind of compact configuration is just what we see around TRAPPIST-1.”

Just 40 light years away

The newly found system is just 40 light years away, before anyone starts stating the obvious we know that this is too far to reach with current technology. But still there’s hope that future technology might get us there a lot faster and safer. We can’t reach those Earth-like planets right now but at least we know they exist, and we know that there is potential for life out there.

See These Breathtaking Photos Of Mars Taken By NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft

The Hubble Space Telescope is being used to look at atmospheres around the planets while the TRAPPIST-1 is of sheer importance for future study of these exoplanets. Another researcher, Emmanuël Jehin, remarked how future telescopes could allow us to actually see this planetary system a lot more in depth than we can now, he stated that:

“With the upcoming generation of telescopes, such as ESO’s European Extremely Large Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, we will soon be able to search for water and perhaps even evidence of life on these worlds.”

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Seven Earth-sized planets orbit nearby supercool star

Three planets’ paths put them in TRAPPIST-1’s habitable zone

BY ASHLEY YEAGER 

 

PLANETARY LINEUP  Seven Earth-sized planets orbit the star TRAPPIST-1 with short periods, from 1.5 to 20 Earth days. This artist’s illustration shows potential differences in the planets’ surfaces and sizes.

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A nearby ultracool star harbors seven Earth-sized planets, three with orbits that potentially put them in a habitable zone. That makes the system, around a star called TRAPPIST-1, a prime target in the search for signs of alien life. Its discovery also hints that many more cousins of Earth may be out there than astronomers thought.

“It’s rather stunning that the system has so many Earth-sized planets,” says Drake Deming, an astronomer at the University of Maryland in College Park. It seems like every stable spot where a planet could be, there is an Earth-sized one. “That bodes well for finding habitable planets,” he says.

Michaël Gillon, an astrophysicist at University of Liège in Belgium, and colleagues announced last year that they had found three Earth-sized planets around TRAPPIST-1, an ultracool dwarf star previously called 2MASS J23062928−0502285 (SN: 05/28/16, p. 6). The star, about the size of Jupiter and much cooler than the sun, is 39 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. Follow-up observations with ground-based telescopes and the Spitzer Space Telescope now reveal that the third planet is actually four additional Earth-sized ones, three of which could be habitable. If those planets have Earthlike atmospheres, they may even have liquid water oceans on their surfaces, Gillon and colleagues report online February 22 in Nature. Data also revealed signs of a seventh outer planet in the system.

All seven planets were detected by watching how their star dims as the planets pass in front of it from Earth’s vantage point. Calculations of the amount of starlight blocked by each transit indicates that all seven have roughly the same radius as Earth. These dips in starlight can also reveal how fast the planets orbit the star: The innermost one makes a round trip in 1.5 Earth days, while it takes the outermost one about 20 days.

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SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.

JPL-CALTECH/NASA

SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.

JPL-CALTECH/NASA

 

SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.

JPL-CALTECH/NASA

SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.

JPL-CALTECH/NASA

 

SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.

JPL-CALTECH/NASA

SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.

JPL-CALTECH/NASA

SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT Planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 are a lot alike in some ways and distinct in others. Click through this slideshow to discover each planet’s specs, including how long it takes to orbit the dwarf star, distance from the star (in astronomical units), and radius and mass relative to Earth.

JPL-CALTECH/NASA

To calculate the planets’ masses, which range from about half to 1.5 times that of Earth, researchers looked at the way the six inner planets tug on each other. The mass and size data together then allowed the team to calculate the planets’ densities, suggesting that the inner six are rocky.

The length of each planet’s day may sync with its stellar orbit, so the innermost planet’s day lasts 1.5 Earth days and the outermost planet’s day lasts about 20 Earth days. That’s like Earth rotating once in 365 days instead of in 24 hours. Such a spin means the same side of a planet faces the star throughout the planet’s orbit, giving it a day side and a night side. Astronomers feared that would make the planets too hot on the day side and too cold on the night side to be habitable. But if they have Earthlike atmospheres, TRAPPIST-1e, TRAPPIST-1f and TRAPPIST-1g would be warm enough all over to have liquid water, making them ripe for life. The seventh planet, TRAPPIST-1h, is probably icy, Gillon says, maybe like Jupiter’s moon Europa.

EARTH’S COUSINS Detecting seven Earth-sized planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star is exotic. This video describes some of the data collected to make the discovery and what the analyses are revealing about these foreign worlds.

Finding these seven planets suggests that Earth cousins may be more common than expected. “We are on the right angle to see this system and its Earth-sized planets,” says Deming, who was not involved in the study. “For every system we see, there are dozens more that we don’t.” Stars like TRAPPIST-1 with Earth-sized planets are probably not rare, he notes. If they were, it would have taken many more observations to find them. The fact that Gillon and colleagues’ pilot project to study ultracool dwarfs spotted planets so quickly indicates that it may be the norm for these stars to harbor planets similar to Earth.

Studying the atmospheres of such planets could reveal if they have life, especially if gases such as methane and oxygen are detected. It could be possible to study the planets’ atmospheres with the Hubble Space Telescope or its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, slated to launch in 2018. Deming is cautious, however, about how easy these atmospheric studies of the planets will be. Ultracool dwarfs’ starlight can vary, he notes. There are also atmospheric effects from the stars that astronomers don’t yet understand. Both could make it difficult to decipher what gases are in the planets’ atmospheres.

Didier Queloz, a study coauthor and an astronomer at the University of Cambridge, is a bit more optimistic. “We have no idea what these planets look like now. They could be wet or dry. We just don’t know,” he says. “But for the first time since the first exoplanet was discovered 25 years ago, we may be able to answer the question about life beyond our solar system.”

Citations

M. Gillon et al. Seven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. Nature. Published online February 22, 2017. doi:10.1038/nature21360

Further Reading

C. Crockett. Nearby exoplanet trio new target in search for life. Science News. Vol. 189, May 28, 2016, p. 6.

T.H. Saey. Will we know extraterrestrial life when we see it? Science News. Vol. 189, April 30, 2016, p. 28.

C. Crockett. New telescopes will search for signs of life on distant planets. Science News. Vol. 189, April 30, 2016, p. 32.

T. Sumner. How alien can a planet be and still support life? Science News. Vol. 189, April 30, 2016, p. 36.

C. Crockett. Rocky planets around cool stars may have Earthlike climates. Science News. Vol. 187, February 7, 2015, p. 7.

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What happens in Area 51? Insider spills beans on mysterious top-secret base

AREA 51 has been at the centre of conspiracy theories and speculation for years.

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The top-secret US Airforce facility hidden away in the Nevada desert is so classified that it was only in 2013 that the US Government openly admitted it existed.

And, last year Hillary Clinton vowed to send in a task force to find out just what goes on inside it if she made it to the White House as part of her election campaign.

Theories about what Area 51 is used for range from the development of classified aircraft to a storage facility for recovered UFOs and alien body parts after alleged flying saucer crashes.

Armed private security guards are authorised to use "lethal force" on anyone foolish enough to enter the site unannounced.

Last year, Express.co.uk ran a poll asking readers if they believed evidence of alien visitations of Earth was being hidden in Area 51.

There were 7,139 votes, and a remarkable 66 percent thought there was an alien cover up under way inside Area 51.

But, industry insider Andre Milne, founder of defence technology firm Unicorn Aerospace, which describes itself as "the world's leading developer of advanced navigation technology", claims this is not the case.

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He says one of Area 51's main purposes is to test Russian warplanes to ensure the US stays one step ahead of its Cold War rival.

Mr Milne claimed the US Airforce (USAF) uses Area 51 to study Russian fighter jets - something that used to be done by The 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron at various locations until it was formally disbanded in July 1990.

He said: "An operational priority of the USAF is to fully understand the maximum endurance combat threshold of any potential adversaries primary front line military fighter aircraft.

"Following the official disbandment of The 4477th Test & Evaluation Squadron that was tasked with actively studying Russian fighter jets, Area 51 is now the unofficially designated base that does the exact same work as The 4477th. 

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Area 51 is a highly secured aerospace facility tasked with a wide variety of objectives to ensure the United States maintains a cutting edge of tactical air superiority against any potential threats.

Andre Milne

"Hopefully this helps in quashing the nonsensical myth that Area 51 is intertwined with some fictitious alien technology conspiracy.

"Area 51 is a highly secured aerospace facility tasked with a wide variety of objectives to ensure the United States maintains a cutting edge of tactical air superiority against any potential threats."

Last month Expresss.co.uk revealed pictures taken by a photographer of a mock dog fight between a US F-16 and a Russian Sukhoi SU-27 taking place in the skies above Area 51, before the fighters returned to base..

Mr Milne said that was an example of the work at Area 51 he has told of being underway.

He has previously told how so-called "Black Projects" are also underway inside Area 51.

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Black Projects is a conspiracy theory name for the top-secret development of new experimental military aircraft.

Mr Milne says this is also ongoing at Area 51.

He said: "Area 51 is a very well secured US Air Force base that is mandated to test and evaluate the performance of experimental and or classified US military aircraft.

"The whole alien question being run out of Area 51 is complete nonsense."

According to its website, Unicorn Aerospace is "committed to development of advanced aerospace technologies in order to maximise revenue stream growth potential into the respective markets of the private commercial and public military sectors.".

Express.co.uk has contacted the United States Department of Defense for comment.

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Russian soldiers zapped by aliens after shooting down UFO, declassified CIA report claims

RUSSIAN military shot down a UFO before they were attacked and killed by the surviving aliens, it is sensationally claimed in a declassified CIA report.

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Five short humanoids with large heads and large black eyes got out.

CIA report

The report said: "The KGB report goes on to say that the remains of the 'petrified soldiers' were transferred to a secret research institution near Moscow.

"Specialists assume that a source of energy still unknown to Earthlings instantly changed the structure of the soldiers living organisms, having transformed it into a substance whose molecular structure was no different to limestone.

"A CIA representative stated: 'if the KGB file corresponds to reality, this is an extremely menacing case.

"The aliens possess such weapons and technology that go beyond all our assumptions'."

It is not explained in the document why the CIA held a translation of the Ukrainian newspaper report on file.

However, the translated newspaper report contained in the declassified CIA file said the source of the information had come from the Canadian Weekly World News, which was known at the time for publishing outlandish and fictional news headlines.

According to UFO website anf YouTube channel Lionsground, "you have to be careful about what the CIA publishes online, as it could be misinformation."

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‘Aliens accidentally killed me but took my corpse onto UFO to save my life' - shock claim

A MAN was accidentally killed by a laser blast from a UFO… before his corpse was taken aboard and he was miraculously brought to life, it has astonishingly been claimed.

By JON AUSTIN

The events which allegedly happened to Travis Walton 41 years ago are one of the world's most infamous so-called alien abduction cases.

But, it now appears he may not actually have been abducted after all - but instead rescued.

The twist in the story has been revealed by UFO researcher JP Robinson, after a meeting with Mr Walton at an alien conference.

The case began in November 1975 in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, near Phoenix, Arizona, when six forestry worker colleagues of Mr Walton's reported him missing after they allegedly saw him get blasted back 20 feet by an energy beam from a UFO that "appeared over the trees”.

Officers thought it was an elaborate cover up and that they had actually killed him and disposed of the body.

But five days later he turned-up, saying he had been abducted by aliens and had been forced to punch his way out.

He relayed what happened in his book Fire In The Sky which was turned into a Hollywood movie of the same name in 1993. 

He claims to have seen three grey aliens on the UFO, and later, human-looking beings described as "smooth-skinned and blemish-less".

Now, Mr Robinson has relayed the new details on his website.

He wrote: "I was never convinced of the authenticity of this incident, not to say I didn't believe it, just that you can never be wholly sure.

"All that changed when I met Travis Walton… and got the fantastic opportunity to speak face to face with the man who claims to have met beings from another world, and try to figure out whether he is for real or just a really good liar!

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Travis Walton claims he was killed by a UFO then aliens inside it saved his life.

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"After having spent quality time in his presence and talking privately about his experience, I can only conclude that this man really did meet these beings aboard their ship. 

"What wasn't clear before was the question of why would they 'zap' him with that beam of light to begin with? 

"It's all a bit too sci-fi for me.”

However, he said he now realises it was an accident, which killed Mr Walton. 

He said: ”Travis was in the wrong place at the wrong time and should never have been stood so close to such an incredible machine. 

"He himself explained that he was just about to turn back to the truck seconds before being struck.

"It now seems that as the craft was preparing to take off into the night sky it inadvertently knocked Travis for six, killing him in the process. 

"Yes, you read that right. Travis told me that he believed that he was actually dead. 

"So now we get to the real question which so many people ask...why did they take him on board? Well, according to the man himself, they took him in order to save his life - and this they clearly succeeded in doing."

Mr Robinson said the story now had a "more legitimate tone".

TRAVISWALTON

Travis Walton in 1975 around the time of the bizarre incident.

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JP Robinsion

He added it was “an accident and an act of humanitarianism.” 

He said: "Travis Walton has made me believe again, or should I say know again, that we truly are in the midst of something remarkable and it is only a matter of time before the bigger picture is revealed."

Now, 41 years on, Mr Walton and his former co-workers still maintain their account of what is recognised as the world's most remarkable UFO sighting and alien abduction claim on record.

The team, who were on a tree-thinning project, have all passed lie detector tests over the remarkable incident in November 1975, adding credibility to their account.

The seven of them reported how they were driving in the forest in a truck when they first saw mysterious lights which then appeared to be a flying saucer up in the canopy.

A mesmerised Mr Walton was the only one among them to venture out of the vehicle and approach the craft, despite his colleagues pleading with him not to go near.

Mr Walton said: "My eyes were just riveted on this thing. Then it threw me back through the air 20 feet."

His colleagues reported seeing him fly backwards with his back arched from a beam of light bearing down from the craft.

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The terrified men fled in the vehicle, but returned later when there was no trace of the UFO or Mr Walton.

Mr Walton insists he woke up inside an alien craft, lying on a table and surrounded by three aliens with other humanoid looking beings in the background.

He said: "I got this rush of adrenaline and jumped from the table and just lashed out. Then I blacked out and woke up on the side of the road and ran to the nearest call box and collapsed."

What he didn't know at the time was he had been gone for five days.

There are still sceptics however, and those who claim it was an elaborate hoax.

The www.occupytheory.org website, part of the Occupy movement, is not convinced by the story and points out there were no witnesses to Mr Walton being drawn up into the spacecraft, adding that he could have hid for five days before reappearing.

In a report about the case, the website said: "Once Walton returned he wouldn’t just talk to the press. 

"He’d only talk with publications that believed in UFOs.

"The story ran in the National Enquirer in 1975."

It also claimed he failed a lie detector carried out by the Enquirer and there was a history of UFO/alien claims among his immediate family before the "abduction".

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‘Aliens accidentally killed me but took my corpse onto UFO to save my life' - shock claim

A MAN was accidentally killed by a laser blast from a UFO… before his corpse was taken aboard and he was miraculously brought to life, it has astonishingly been claimed.

By JON AUSTIN

The events which allegedly happened to Travis Walton 41 years ago are one of the world's most infamous so-called alien abduction cases.

But, it now appears he may not actually have been abducted after all - but instead rescued.

The twist in the story has been revealed by UFO researcher JP Robinson, after a meeting with Mr Walton at an alien conference.

The case began in November 1975 in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, near Phoenix, Arizona, when six forestry worker colleagues of Mr Walton's reported him missing after they allegedly saw him get blasted back 20 feet by an energy beam from a UFO that "appeared over the trees”.

Officers thought it was an elaborate cover up and that they had actually killed him and disposed of the body.

But five days later he turned-up, saying he had been abducted by aliens and had been forced to punch his way out.

He relayed what happened in his book Fire In The Sky which was turned into a Hollywood movie of the same name in 1993. 

He claims to have seen three grey aliens on the UFO, and later, human-looking beings described as "smooth-skinned and blemish-less".

Now, Mr Robinson has relayed the new details on his website.

He wrote: "I was never convinced of the authenticity of this incident, not to say I didn't believe it, just that you can never be wholly sure.

"All that changed when I met Travis Walton… and got the fantastic opportunity to speak face to face with the man who claims to have met beings from another world, and try to figure out whether he is for real or just a really good liar!

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"After having spent quality time in his presence and talking privately about his experience, I can only conclude that this man really did meet these beings aboard their ship. 

"What wasn't clear before was the question of why would they 'zap' him with that beam of light to begin with? 

"It's all a bit too sci-fi for me.”

However, he said he now realises it was an accident, which killed Mr Walton. 

He said: ”Travis was in the wrong place at the wrong time and should never have been stood so close to such an incredible machine. 

"He himself explained that he was just about to turn back to the truck seconds before being struck.

"It now seems that as the craft was preparing to take off into the night sky it inadvertently knocked Travis for six, killing him in the process. 

"Yes, you read that right. Travis told me that he believed that he was actually dead. 

"So now we get to the real question which so many people ask...why did they take him on board? Well, according to the man himself, they took him in order to save his life - and this they clearly succeeded in doing."

Mr Robinson said the story now had a "more legitimate tone".

TRAVISWALTON

Travis Walton in 1975 around the time of the bizarre incident.

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Yes, you read that right. Travis told me that he believed that he was actually dead.

JP Robinsion

He added it was “an accident and an act of humanitarianism.” 

He said: "Travis Walton has made me believe again, or should I say know again, that we truly are in the midst of something remarkable and it is only a matter of time before the bigger picture is revealed."

Now, 41 years on, Mr Walton and his former co-workers still maintain their account of what is recognised as the world's most remarkable UFO sighting and alien abduction claim on record.

The team, who were on a tree-thinning project, have all passed lie detector tests over the remarkable incident in November 1975, adding credibility to their account.

The seven of them reported how they were driving in the forest in a truck when they first saw mysterious lights which then appeared to be a flying saucer up in the canopy.

A mesmerised Mr Walton was the only one among them to venture out of the vehicle and approach the craft, despite his colleagues pleading with him not to go near.

Mr Walton said: "My eyes were just riveted on this thing. Then it threw me back through the air 20 feet."

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The terrified men fled in the vehicle, but returned later when there was no trace of the UFO or Mr Walton.

Mr Walton insists he woke up inside an alien craft, lying on a table and surrounded by three aliens with other humanoid looking beings in the background.

He said: "I got this rush of adrenaline and jumped from the table and just lashed out. Then I blacked out and woke up on the side of the road and ran to the nearest call box and collapsed."

What he didn't know at the time was he had been gone for five days.

There are still sceptics however, and those who claim it was an elaborate hoax.

The www.occupytheory.org website, part of the Occupy movement, is not convinced by the story and points out there were no witnesses to Mr Walton being drawn up into the spacecraft, adding that he could have hid for five days before reappearing.

In a report about the case, the website said: "Once Walton returned he wouldn’t just talk to the press. 

"He’d only talk with publications that believed in UFOs.

"The story ran in the National Enquirer in 1975."

It also claimed he failed a lie detector carried out by the Enquirer and there was a history of UFO/alien claims among his immediate family before the "abduction".

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The genius, game-changing twist of “Arrival” should win it the Oscar for best picture

WRITTEN BY Adam Epstein

This story contains spoilers.

Arrival was not supposed to work.

Adapted from the novella Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, about a linguist who decodes an alien language, Eric Heisserer’s script was too intricate, too cerebral to interest studio executives. He shopped his screenplay around Hollywood for years before he found producers to champion the project. And only after another few years of re-working the script did it land on director Denis Villeneuve’s desk, who turned it into the Oscar-nominated film Arrival for Paramount Pictures.

The fact that Villeneuve’s Arrival—a heady sci-fi studio film with a female scientist as its main character—was nominated for the Oscar for best picture at all is worth celebrating. (Heisserer was also nominated for his adapted screenplay.) It won’t, however, win the night’s biggest award. Betting sites put the film’s odds of winning at around 100 to 1, far behind the two favorites, La La Land and Moonlight.

But that matters not. Because against the odds, Arrival works. One could name several different reasons for its critical and commercial success: Amy Adams’s sublimely understated performance; Jóhann Jóhannsson’s cryptic, alluring score; Bradford Young’s stunning photography; or editor Joe Walker’s scrupulous puzzle-playing, to name only a few.

Arrival‘s ultimate triumph, though, is how all of these things, together with the conceptual consistency of Villeneuve’s filmmaking, combine to pull off one of the most remarkable plot twists in cinema history.

It’s easy shorthand, but to call what happens toward the end of Arrival a “twist” is a disservice to its genius. Film twists often materialize out of thin air, tricks or random reversals inserted purely for shock value. The ending of Arrival doesn’t shock so much as it re-contextualizes the entire experience of watching the film. It represents a paradigm shift in the story: Villeneuve and company change the game right in front of your eyes, and you don’t realize it until the exact moment that you need to.

In the beginning of the film, we see Louise Banks, the linguist played by Amy Adams, caring for her young daughter, who’s dying. Throughout the film, Louise dreams of her daughters death, the flashbacks of a grieving mother. Of course, it’s not until the climax of the film does Louise (and, thus, the viewer) recognize that these aren’t flashbacks but flashforwards to the tragic story of a life yet lived, that of her future daughter. Studying the extraterrestrial language, she learns, has re-wired her brain to perceive time nonlinearly, just as the aliens do.

This actually isn’t the first time that this magic trick of storytelling has been performed on screen. But it has never been executed so beautifully. And it’s certainly never been bound so closely to the meaning of the film or the experience of watching it.

A masterclass of foreshadowing presages the final reveal. The best twists, as I’ve written before, must have breadcrumbs laid out for the viewer to find—but they should be more apparent the second time around than during the initial viewing, almost as if you get a special pair of glasses to see them, after you watch the film once.

A whole new world. (Paramount Pictures)

Allusions to Arrival‘s nonlinear narrative and the circular nature of its storytelling are present in every aspect of the film. Jóhannsson’s enchanting score contains musical palindromes—vocal patterns that repeat backwards and forwards. (Hannah, the name of Louise’s daughter, is also a palindrome.) The set design of Louise’s home, the university where she teaches, and the interior of the aliens’ ship all look like one another.

“You can see elements of the horizontal ship chamber where Louise communicates with aliens reflected in her house and in the classroom, ” production designer Patrice Vermette told Vanity Fair. “For Louise, the idea of the chamber was pre-conveyed in her world.” Villeneuve also told the set designers to incorporate circularity into their designs whenever they could “without making it obvious,” Vermette said.

One of the most famous principles of drama is “Chekov’s gun,” which states that each element of a narrative, however small, must be important to the story. “One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn’t going to go off,” the Russian writer Anton Chekov, is believed to have said.

These hints at the interrelation of present, past, and future don’t just factor into the story of Arrival (and thus fulfill Chekov’s principle)—they are the story. In the film, language literally changes the way Louise can perceive the world. That process is mirrored in how the “twist” and the visual language of cinema alter your perception of events as the movie watcher.

In the video above, Evan Puschak of the popular YouTube channel Nerdwriter breaks down some of the brilliance of Arrival‘s storytelling technique. The language that the aliens gift to Louise echoes the “unique perspective a film can gift a filmgoer,” he says. Films, essentially, can guide us through time in ways our own reality can’t.

In a way, the alien language lets Louise see the story of her life as if she were watching a movie of it—capable of moving both backwards and forwards, knowing the ending before it happens but still choosing to see it through.

Arrival is a completely different movie the second time you see it, once you know which scenes take place when. More clues start to present themselves: Early in the film, Louise’s partner, a physicist (played by Jeremy Renner), reads from her book about linguistics. “Language,” he recites, “is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.” Later on, Louise translates a message from the aliens: “Offer weapon.” The humans think they’re being threatened with a literal weapon, but remember—what’s the first “weapon” drawn in a conflict? Why, language, of course. The aliens were merely offering humanity the gift of their all-seeing language.

Louise and Ian, the physicist, nickname their two alien counterparts Abbott and Costello, a clever reference to the duality of meaning for anyone familiar with the “Who’s on First?” comedy routine by the legendary duo. It seems obvious in retrospect, but the first time around, even the most discerning of viewers are not equipped to notice clues like that, without, of course, the gift of knowing the future.

It’s rare, but not unprecedented, for a plot twist to double as a paradigm shift. Christopher Nolan’s Memento did it. M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense did it too. What sets Arrival apart is how the game-changer is also the central theme of the film—that how we perceive the world is defined by how, and with whom, we communicate.

It would all fall apart without Denis Villeneuve’s impeccable eye for detail. Arrival is a film by a filmmaker refreshingly in total command of his craft. Villeneuve knows precisely what he intends to convey to the viewer, and with the help of actors, writers, editors, musicians, cinematographers, and set designers committed to that singular vision, he delivered the most rewarding cinematic experience of 2016.

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Alien breakthrough: NASA makes MASSIVE leap in hunt for extraterrestrial life

SPACE boffins have made a key discovery in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Ocean world Enceladus would appear to be one of the many cold, icy and inhabitable landmarks in the solar system.

But Saturn's moon has been earmarked as a potential home for other life after a salt water ocean was found beneath the moon's crust.

And experts believe there could be hydrothermal activity as well, which would further support alien life.

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That has altered the way we think about where life might be found in our own Solar System, and in the worlds beyond”

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has now detected geysers under the planet's surface erupting into space.

The plumes emitted from the planet included gases and salts as well as water vapour, proving the existence of the global saltwater ocean.

Cassini project scientist Linda Spilker said extensive study of the moon has suggested it is being heated by tidal forces from Saturn, and could well support organic life.

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Life has been found in similar conditions in extinct oceans under the surface of the earth.

She added: "That has altered the way we think about where life might be found in our own Solar System, and in the worlds beyond."

Other ocean worlds such as Jupiter's moon Europa, Saturn's moon Titan and Neptune's moon Triton are also being studied for alien life forms.

Dwarf planets such as Ceres and Pluto also have favourable conditions for extra-terrestrial life.

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