A UFO book gathering interest and momentum at the moment is ‘UFOs OVER ROMANIA’. In the west, little is known about its author, Dan D. Farcas PhD. With that in mind, I recently took the opportunity to interview Dan in order to try and learn a little more about his interests and how he became involved in UFO research in his home country of Romania.

RL: How and when did you first become interested in the UFO phenomenon?

Dan D. Farcas PhD

DF: I should split the question into two. I’ve always been interested in extraterrestrial issues, but only relatively lately into UFOs. When I was 8 or 9 years old, one of the things I used to play at with my younger brother was to draw our imaginary adventures in a primitive type of comic book. I still have some of them. Most of these adventures took place in outer space, travelling from one planet to another. At the same period of time, I started to write a book on astronomy. In the forties, in Romania, there were no such books available.

When I was 25-35, I published several science fiction short stories, mainly on space travel and contacts with aliens. In these stories, I felt it was quite normal for an alien to appear suddenly, in human form, in an earthly environment, but I still had doubts about UFOs as extraterrestrial vehicles.

I published some popular science articles about extraterrestrial civilizations and, around 1980, I was invited to write a book about this topic. On this occasion, I thought it is normal to inform myself on the UFO phenomenon. Only then, I discovered, by reading some good books, how many well documented cases exist and how important they are.

The book, entitled “De ce tac civilizaţiile extraterestre” (Why cue the extraterrestrial civilizations), published in 1983, was a small bestseller. Then many people asked me about UFOs, so I continued to inform myself more seriously, and published a lot, especially after 1990.

RL: Have you ever had a personal experience with ‘high strangeness’?

DF: I have the memory of several “night visits”, before the age of 5 years. I argued then that they were not dreams. The only thing I remember now is a green hand disappearing behind my bed, somehow in to the wall. I even gave a name to this apparition, something like “that with the hand”.

I had also, in this period, some unexplainable phobias. I felt a terror if I get a glimpse of certain common objects. These reactions have disappeared with time.

RL: Has being an academic aided you in your research of the UFO phenomenon?

DF: I was trained in mathematics, physics and astronomy at a university level. This helped me not only to understand the size and structure of the universe, or what means spaces with more dimensions, but it also gave me a strong sense of sizes, such as differences between thousands, millions and billions of years, or light years. I noticed that, for many, this often means only “very much”, leading to serious confusions.

On the other hand, academic training in such domains, gives you a higher censorship toward certain facts that you hear reported. Among other things, this made me sceptical for a long time, that UFOs may be spacecraft. Of course, life has forced me, in many fields, to go beyond the dogmas learned in school.

Finally, the academic education and my life experience helped me to understand the limitations of some instruments considered “taboo” in our culture. I understood the limits of the scientific method, of the mathematics and logic. All these have relevance in investigating the UFO phenomenon.

RL: Whilst compiling your research for your new book UFO’s OVER ROMANIA you will have read many eye witness reports, did any one account stand out to you and why?

DF: For this book I used, mostly, investigations made by people that I have known and I had confidence in, but I gave also many pages to the cases that I investigated personally over the last 20 years. There were, on the one hand, strange accounts of military pilots, and on the other hand, unexplained encounters of just ordinary people. I was impressed most by the sincerity of all the witnesses and by their desire to find an explanation for what had happened. With the stories from civilians, I was most impressed by the mixture between the classical UFO lore and some characters or features I knew before only in folkloric or religious realms.

But to understand all the things that surprised me, I think it’s better to recommend reading the book, with all those stories.

RL: Has the language barrier been an obstacle in sharing Eastern European UFO reports?

DF: The language barrier is a very serious one. It was partially overcome in technical fields in which international cooperation is mandatory and where you use a limited vocabulary; but it is still a problem in many other areas, including ufology.

The ufological literature, in Romanian language, and about Romanian cases, is not very extensive, but even so, there are many interesting cases and developments which are not known abroad. The situation is, I think, similar in other Eastern European countries.

RL:  You are the chairman of ASFAN. What is this organization?

DF: In 1998, Ion Hobana, a well known writer and ufologist, Harald Alexandrescu, astronomer, and myself, took the initiative of creating the Romanian Association for the Study of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (ASFAN), as an organisation of well established specialists in various disciplines relevant for active involvement in UFO research. It was and has remained the only non-governmental and non-profit organisation in Romania, with legal personality, dedicated exclusively to ufology. The legal permission for the establishment of ASFAN was obtained at the Court of the City of Bucharest on September 28, 1998, taking into consideration the approval of the Ministry of Research and Technology and that of the General Mayor of Bucharest. The offices of ASFAN were established in the building of the “Admiral Vasile Urseanu” Astronomical Observatory of the Municipality of Bucharest, Boulevard Lascăr Catargiu 21, Bucharest, property of the City.

For the 21 founding members (demanded by the law at that point in time), highly skilled individuals were selected: mathematicians, astronomers, engineers, specialists in radar, aeronautics, meteorology, photo-imaging, informatics, medicine, as well as interdisciplinary oriented personalities. The main aim was to have a multidisciplinary and pluralistic approach to the phenomenon. The initial elected board was: chairman Ion Hobana (1931-2011), Vice-chairman myself, and executive director Harald Alexandrescu Ph.D., mathematician and astronomer (1944-2005). Since 2011, I am the chairman.

At the beginning, ASFAN organised, for three years, public lectures on a monthly basis. A more complex, one day UFO Conference was organised in May 2014. We had also several other public encounters and actions. ASFAN members were invited to appear on virtually all of the main Romanian TV channels and radio stations for debates on current UFO events and related issues. Unfortunately, the funding and the time available for the members was always very limited, so the achievements of ASFAN were much lower than had been hoped, and in time most of members became inactive with no one to take their place.

ASFAN received and examined written reports, photos, video footage and other UFO data (far from all cases). The most interesting ones are available (in Romanian) on the website of the organization. There are no printed UFO publications in Romania, but some ASFAN members have or had permanent UFO columns or articles published in Romanian popular science magazines.

Ion Hobana kept in touch with many ufologists worldwide, he participated in international conferences and invited to Romania several ufologists from abroad. Other ASFAN members tried to maintain these contacts, making new ones too, with several UFO research organisations and specialists abroad.

 RL: In UFOs OVER ROMANIA you discuss ‘hypercivilizations’. Could you just expand on what this is?

DF: In our Galaxy (the Milky Way), there are around 200 billion stars. Around 30 billion planets can host life. More and more specialists admit that the basic components of life are travelling throughout space, “infecting” immediately all appropriate planets upon contact. In ideal conditions, in three-four billion years of undisturbed evolution, the random game of mutations and the subsequent changing of the environment could produce on such a planet a complex life system, as we see on our Earth and, in some cases, even a “technological civilisation”, that means intelligent beings capable of building spaceships to travel to other inhabitable planets.

As I estimated that, in the history of our Galaxy, could come into being a number of technological civilizations, of which, only a few hundred survived the childhood diseases that we face now on Earth, and still exist. But these civilizations have not arisen simultaneously. The first may have been born a billion years ago, or even earlier. Therefore in our Galaxy, the surviving civilizations have appeared, most likely, one in a several million years. So, they are far apart from us not only in space, but also in time.

What will become of our civilization (if it will survive) over millions (or billions) of years? How would the inhabitants of a civilization that has outstripped us with millions of years look like? It is impossible for us to imagine. We can accept however that they have been transformed into something else, beyond our understanding; into something we can name as a “hypercivilization”.

If somebody considers that we were too optimistic and the intelligent beings are much scarcer, we should add that our Milky Way is only one of at least 150 billion, more or less similar, galaxies of the Universe accessible to our instruments. And we have strong reasons to believe that there are other Universes too, maybe “parallel” ones, maybe from other states of matter, or parts of a “Multiverse” etc. Therefore it is almost absolutely sure that in the Cosmos there are hypercivilisations.

School and science fiction, but not only, set our minds on patterns ignoring completely the possibility of hypercivilizations. There is a primitive extraterrestrial hypothesis, which assumes that all cosmic civilizations are more or less at the same level with us. Therefore it nurtures some false preconceptions as: very long and difficult cosmic voyages, landing on the lawn of White House, equal rights, conversation, invasion, intervention, aid, and so on.

This primitive view is completely implausible. If hypercivilizations exist (and they exist, with a probability of 99.999999…%) they exploited, in the smallest detail, our Galaxy, millions of years ago, so they have known, for a long time, about our existence. A difference of millions of years, or even hundreds of millions, is as huge as between us and a lizard or even an ant. If an entomologist would propose to study an anthill, he will try to disturb, as little as possible, its life. He could of course make experiments, examining or modifying some ants, or even taking them in remote laboratories, trying to create new “races” and so on, but will not “present credentials” to the queen of the ants. If the entomologist have the technology, he will create some robot ants, sending them in to the hill and watching from a safe place, for example “on the computer screen”, the data transmitted by them. Hypercivilizations might treat us in a similar way. Therefore no settlement, no destruction, on one hand and no official contact, conversation or substantial help, on the other hand, are to be expected from highly advanced cosmic civilisations, even if they are here now.

The arising of a technological civilization could be a very rare event in our Galaxy, occurring probably once in several millions of years. So it is normal for us to be of interest to the higher intelligences. But they will forbid any aid. This is not, only, because of human aggressiveness and xenophobia, making from all new technology new weapons, nor only to avoid a “cultural shock”, which could virtually destroy all our social, scientific, religious, economical, political, military and cultural structures. I suppose they have also some other reasons for that. Hypercivilisations could wait (and maybe harvest even now) our original ideas, viewpoints, creations (in art, science, philosophy, ethics etc.), or something else, produced as a result of millions of years of our independent evolution. And all that expected crop could be destroyed by a premature contact. Some old, apparently absurd, stories may be an indication of such an attitude: the punishment for the apple of the forbidden tree of knowledge, the chaining of Prometheus, or the fallen angels (from Book of Enoch), thrown into a pit full of fire, because they were taught earthlings different skills.

The higher intelligences may gather and store our lives in a kind of virtual reality; this could explain: channelling, “xenoglossia”, “walk-ins”, “reincarnation”, ghosts, etc. In such a super-memory it is possible to travel in the past, without changing the real past, or to see scenarios of the future (sometimes apocalyptical), without accepting fatality.

Of course, all the above is not a proof that the hypercivilisations are the explanation for everything strange and particularly for UFOs. It is only one hypothesis; but one which cannot be easily discarded. And we can speculate even further, supposing for example that the spiritual world was before, or that the material world is only a kind of a great virtual reality and so on. Also, the whole Universe (or rather the “Multiverse”) could be much older and much more complex than the part we can observe with our instruments. Was there something before the “Big Bang”? What is beyond the limits of our closed Universe (maybe in another dimension or another reality, maybe in a spiritual state of matter)?

RL: In your opinion, how do we keep moving forward with UFO research?

DF: UFOs exist! To understand them, first of all, we have to collect facts, focusing on the sincerity of the witnesses and on the honesty of the ufologists, avoiding: tricksters, deception, exaggeration, inventions, misinterpretation of natural phenomena, or of man-made vehicles, as well as deceptive mental phenomena.

In the same time, we have not to forget the great distance from reality to the stories reported about it, interposing (unconsciously!) images seen elsewhere, perhaps in a dream, screen memories, all embellished, filtered, rearranged in a logical and socially convenient order, to match beliefs or prejudices, self delusions, wishful thinking, compulsions or even sexual fantasies, all deeply embedded into the subconscious. These mechanisms are acquired starting with our earliest moments of life and continuing with language, family, religion, environment, social pressure, school, science, media etc. This can change completely what we perceive. Of course, that does not mean the witnesses have not seen anything! Behind their stories, most (if not all) of them went through real and strange experiences.

The scientific method brings additional issues. Science admits only truths that: persist over time and can be inspected by any interested person, possibly in an experiment. Often science also demands that the observations be quantifiable. But, around us, there are so many phenomena which do not meet these conditions. Sometimes we are “culturally hypnotized” to not see them.

Science often speaks of “laws of nature”. We do not know any of these laws, but only the laws of Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, etc. which are “falsifiable”, as underlined epistemologist Karl Popper. So statements like: “it was scientifically proven that X can not exist”, or “that Y must exist”, have no logical foundation. An example is that classical: “it is scientifically impossible, therefore please do not bother me with alleged facts”.

Ufology can not be entirely a science; it can not bring abductions in to the laboratory, nor can it present a UFO, on demand, to any sceptic. But the fact that ufology is not a science does not diminish its importance and also it would be desirable to not diminish its respectability. When people from different countries, cultures and religions, with different backgrounds and occupations, are reporting the same story, with dozens of details that are consistent – despite the fact that these persons have never known each other and have not read any of the dedicated UFO literature – that means we face no more a fantasy or pure coincidences but a real phenomenon. Applying appropriate statistical operations, ufology can try to strip the primary perception of observations by the many cultural veils placed on it, even if this endeavour will never be perfect.

In conclusion, UFO research should concentrate on: gathering as more testimonies as possible, developing methods of removing cultural filtering, and using good statistical instruments.

Another issue is that science is not the only way of knowing, even if it claims that. Science, religions, folklore, paranormal studies, ufology etc. touch, each by its own means and in its “light zone”, an extremely complex reality; and often one part denies the truths of the others. To overcome this limitation, we all must learn, in a pluralistic approach, to respect all truths, as long as we cannot refute them, by obvious facts, not only by theories. Therefore we all should accept the truths of others, even if they contradict our own truths. And we should remain always open to dialogue. It is the only way to ascend to the higher truths we are searching for.

RL: Dan, thank you for taking the time to answer my questions and good look (luck?) with your new book UFOs OVER ROMANIA.

For more information about the book, visit: flyingdiskpress.blogspot.co.uk

The book can be purchased at Amazon.com.

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De vondst van een bizarre stenen bol in Bosnië stelt archeologen voor een raadsel. Leefde er mogelijk een oude, hoogontwikkelde beschaving in Europa die dergelijke bollen kon maken?

Volgens archeologen is er geen bewijs dat de bol is achtergelaten door een oude beschaving in Europa die zich liet inspireren door aliens, meldt nieuwssite Tornos News.

De bol is in een bos in Podubravlje ontdekt door dr. Semir Osmanagic. Hij stelt dat het object niet het resultaat kan zijn van een zeldzaam natuurverschijnsel.

Buitenaardse technieken

Volgens hem heeft een ver ontwikkeld volk dat in het gebied woonde de bol gemaakt. Osmanagic wijst op het bestaan van enorme piramides in Bosnië.

Hij claimt dat zijn onderzoek zal bewijzen dat de Europese piramides veel belangrijker zijn dan de Egyptische piramides.

Osmanagic is ervan overtuigd dat de bollen 10.000 jaar voor Christus zijn vervaardigd met buitenaardse technieken. “Ze stemmen ons af op een hogere dimensie,” verklaarde hij.

Costa Rica

De stenen bollen van Costa Rica

De mysterieuze stenen bol, die een doorsnee heeft van 1,2 tot 1,5 meter, tergt vele archeologen.

Het is niet de eerste bizarre bol die ontdekt is op aarde. Je hebt bijvoorbeeld de stenen bollen van Costa Rica die worden toegeschreven aan de Diquiscultuur.

Atlantis

Volgens lokale legendes waren deze bollen afkomstig uit Atlantis. Sommige van de bollen, die zo’n 1500 jaar oud zijn, wegen tot wel 15 ton.

Vaak worden ze gelinkt aan hoogontwikkelde beschavingen die beschikten over futuristische technologieën.

Ruimtevaartorganisaties zetten geen mensen meer op de maan omdat dat te gevaarlijk is, zo wordt geclaimd.

Volgens een populaire complottheorie wordt de natuurlijke satelliet bewoond door hoogontwikkelde aliens die de astronauten hebben weggestuurd, meldt de Daily Express.

Veel onderzoekers en ufologen zeggen dat het Amerikaanse ruimteagentschap een sinister geheim verbergt en dat we niet alles te horen hebben gekregen over wat er op de maan gebeurde, en nog steeds gebeurt, schrijft Ancient Code.

Ontmoetingen

“Veel mensen claimen dat er genoeg bewijs is om te suggereren dat er buitenaardse bases zijn,” aldus de website.

Geopenbaarde documenten en getuigenverklaringen van klokkenluiders doen vermoeden dat ruimteagentschappen niet willen dat de samenleving te weten komt wat er op de maan gebeurt.

Volgens de theorie hadden NASA-astronauten er ontmoetingen met aliens, die hen waarschuwden om niet terug te komen.

Makkelijker

Dat zou verklaren waarom we plotseling niet meer naar de maan gingen, stelt Ancient Code. “Waarom hebben we na al die tijd nog geen permanente bemande basis op de maan?”

“Zou het niet makkelijker zijn om een basis op het maanoppervlak te bouwen dan een ruimtestation rond de aarde operationeel te houden?”

De Amerikaanse scheikundige Harold Urey (1893-1981) onderzocht maanstenen die Apollo 11 had teruggebracht.

Groot raadsel

Hij zei dat de samenstelling van de maanstenen die de astronauten hadden meegebracht hem voor een groot raadsel stelde.

Scott C. Waring van UFO Sightings Daily claimt dat in het archief van de Amerikaanse marine bewijs is gevonden voor het bestaan van bouwwerken op de maan.

SpaceX

Wie weet komen we volgend jaar meer te weten, aangezien het commerciële ruimtevaartconcern SpaceX dan twee betalende ruimtetoeristen om de maan wil laten vliegen.

Beide toeristen hebben al een aanzienlijk bedrag gestort, aldus topman Elon Musk.

In een nieuwe studie wordt uitgelegd waarom de temperaturen op aarde variëren. Klimaatalarmisten zullen er vast en zeker alles aan doen om te voorkomen dat er aandacht aan wordt besteed, zo schrijft de Daily Wire.

Klimaatverandering wordt veroorzaakt door veranderingen in de hoeveelheid zonnestraling, zo concluderen de wetenschappers.

Het team linkt dit fenomeen aan kleine veranderingen in de omloopbaan van de aarde en Mars.

Eerste harde bewijs

Stephen Meyers (Gigi Cohen)

De studie, die is gepubliceerd in vakblad Nature, biedt volgens de wetenschappers het eerste harde bewijs voor het ‘chaotische zonnestelsel’.

Deze theorie werd in 1989 bedacht om kleine variaties in het zonnestelsel te verklaren. Die variaties zorgen voor grote veranderingen in het klimaat op aarde.

Als twee hemellichamen elkaar aantrekken, verandert de hoeveelheid zonnestraling die een planeet ontvangt in bepaalde gebieden.

Drijvende kracht

Die zonnestraling is de drijvende kracht achter het klimaatsysteem, aldus het team onder leiding van professor Stephen Meyers van de University of Wisconsin-Madison en professor Brad Sageman van de Northwestern University.

De subtiele variaties in de omloopbaan van de aarde en Mars beïnvloeden de hoeveelheid zonnestraling die onze planeet ontvangt en daarmee de temperatuur, stellen ze.

Behoorlijk groot

“De invloed van astronomische cycli op het klimaat kan behoorlijk groot zijn,” legt Meyers uit.

Hoewel dit niet bewijst dat de mens geen enkele invloed op het klimaat heeft, benadrukken dergelijke studies dat de rol die de mens op aarde speelt in het niet valt bij natuurlijke fenomenen, schrijft de Daily Wire nog.

A Cumberand County, PA, witness reported an unusual series of “huge, bright, round lights” beaming to the ground level near her property with no sound that appeared to get her dog’s attention, according to testimony in Cases 82026 and 82029 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

Case 82026 was reported February 12, 2017, for an incident that occurred about 1:30 a.m. on about November 15, 2016.

Witness image of ‘bite marks.’

(Credit: MUFON)

“I sleep soundly,” the witness stated.“My dog started barking which woke me up around 1:30 a.m. I thought she had to use the bathroom, so I took her outside in the backyard. The backyard has an in-ground pool and fence. Behind the backyard is a 12-acre common area. At the end of this common area is a wooded section with lots of trees. My dog ran to the left corner of the house facing the front yard/street and was barking. She ran to the right corner of the house facing the front yard/streetand was barking. She repeated this four times until I finally stopped her and brought her inside the house.”

The witness first considered conventional reasons that might be causing the dog problems.

“Each time she was barking, she never did go to the bathroom. I thought maybe she heard someone in front of the house or sometimes we have deer that cross through our development.”

From inside the house, the witness looked out a front window and saw a “huge, bright, round light.”

The witness described the light.

“The light was extremely bright similar to an LED light, but the light was yellow in nature. The light had defined edges, no overspray of light. I walked outside onto my front porch to see if I could get a better view. There were no sounds or noises. I walked back into the house and watched from the front window.”

The witness then saw another beam of light.

“After a few seconds, a beam of light stretched from the round light to the road. This beam of light was the width of a car. It originated from the bright round light and stretched to the road. I could see the light on the road. The beam of light lasted a couple of seconds and then it retracted back to the bright, round light and then both lights disappeared immediately. The entire sighting lasted approximately 8 seconds.”

Cumberland County, PA, is located just west of the Harrisburg area.

(Credit: Google)

The witness first thought that maybe the lights originated from a plane.

“But there was no sound of motors or anything. I wiped it out of my mind, until I witnessed another light on January 7, 2017. Now, I am convinced there is something to these experiences.”

The witness then filed Case 82029 on February 12, 2017, for an incident that occurred on January 7,2017.

“Again, my dog awoke me in the middle of the night,” the witness stated.“This time she was whimpering. Again, I thought she had to go to the bathroom, so I took her outside in the backyard. She immediately ran around the pool four times, without ever stopping to go to the bathroom, and then stopped in the middle of my yard. Facing the field behind my backyard, the dog stopped.”

At this point a bright light appeared at the end of this field.

“It was perfectly round and was about the size of a house. The light was hovering slightly above the trees. There was no origination point – either above, below, left or right – to this light. The light tiled downward and, at that point, the light appeared to be oval-shaped. The edges of the light were defined, with no shadows or extending light from it. There were no noises or sounds. As a matter of fact, everything was unusually still and very dark that evening.”

The witness became frozen and mesmerized by this light source.

“My dog was also frozen – she did not move. The light lasted approximately seven seconds and then disappeared quickly. As soon as the light disappeared, my dog ran to the front of the fence facing the front yard/street, and began growling. She growled four separate times and then stopped. I immediately called for her and we went into the house. When I came inside I checked the clock. It was 2:24 a.m. I looked out the front window to see if I could see anything or to justify why she was growling. I did not see anything, but I did not go outside in the front yard. Honestly, I was scared at that point.”

The witness has reported two encounters with lights beaming to the ground.

(Credit: Google)

But when the witness woke the next morning, her left forearm felt sore.

“I brought my dog downstairs and then looked at my arm. It was bleeding, swollen and red. The area that was swollen was about the size of a golf ball. Within this swollen area were four ‘bite marks.’ The four red ‘bite marks’ were positioned to look like a smile. Above this ‘smile’ is one additional ‘bite mark’ which is located above and in the center of the four marks. The swelling is down and the redness is gone. However, as of February 12, 2017, there is still one red ‘bite mark’ on my arm. The spot still itches and is slightly raised. It feels like something is under this spot. When I awoke from sleeping, I realized I had fallen into a deep sleep. While it appeared as though I slept for a very short time, I felt as though I was completely rested. One final thought. Everything during this event occurred in fours.”

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

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In special reports, this week’s files cover: Winston Churchill’s Thoughts on Extraterrestrials, Ceres PossibleAlien Life, The Salthill Ireland UFO Sighting, Seven Earth-Size Planets of Trappist-1, StrangerAt thePentagon, Helicopters Chasing Drones Part 2, and s TV News Committing Treason?

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, New York, Ohio, and Texas.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Austria, Iran, Italy, Liberia, Mexico, and England in the United Kingdom.

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

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Winston Churchill’s Thoughts on Extraterrestrials

Researchers have uncovered an enlightening piece of writing from Winston Churchill which reveals the renowned British Prime Minister’s thoughts on extraterrestrials!

Penned in 1939, the eleven-page article which was never published is provocatively titled ‘Are We Alone in the Universe?’

It had somehow gotten lost amidst the voluminous files from his estate and, incredibly, wound up included in a collection that was sent to an American Churchill museum in the 1980’s.

For nearly forty years, the enlightening essay sat unnoticed in the museum’s catalog of Churchill materials until it was recently found.

Churchill’s musings on the chances that ETs exist are remarkably prescient in light on the scientific discoveries made since he wrote the essay decades ago.

In the piece, Churchill argues that it is reasonable to conclude that there are many planets throughout the universe, considering its vast size, and that some of these worlds are conducive to life.

The ‘British Bulldog’ even speculated that humans would someday travel to the moon as well as Mars and Venus, which were the only two planets that he considered contenders for potential ET habitation.

That particular assessment from Churchill has proven to be somewhat shortsighted as scientists now believe that life could exist in the harsh environments of other planets.

And, in an amusing bit of wishful thinking that echoes the thoughts of many modern day UFO researchers, Churchill noted that sad state of civilization in 1939 left him skeptical that “we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures.”

To that end, in an observation that would make Copernicus proud, Churchill expressed doubt that “we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time.”

Unfortunately, the complete text from the Churchill ET essay has yet to be published, due to copyright concerns, but historians who detailed the work in a newly-published academic paper hope that the piece can be released in full sometime soon.

We can only imagine what the great orator would say today at the notion that we still have yet to find the elusive extraterrestrial life which left him wondering nearly 80 years ago. Source: BBC News

Ceres Possible Alien Life

The dwarf planet Ceres keeps looking better and better as a possible home for alien life.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has spotted organic molecules — the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it — on Ceres for the first time, a study published today (Feb. 16) in the journal Science reports.

And these organics appear to be native, likely forming on Ceres rather than arriving via asteroid or comet strikes, study team members said. [Photos: Dwarf Planet Ceres, the Solar System’s Largest Asteroid]

The Salthill Ireland UFO Sighting

GALWAY, 22nd February – 1st of March 1986 I am convinced I once saw an UFO, have never one since, and this is my account of this sighting. One early spring day I walked up a hill on my way to Salthill beach.
It looked liked it could rain, even though there were patches of blue in the sky. As I examined the clouds, to judge if it would rain soon, a cigar shaped object appeared in the sky between the roofs of a row of houses. As I continued walking the object moved in the sky relative to the position of the houses on the ground, due to the perspective. I made a stab at estimating its distance. It hovered above the roof tops about one or two miles away, not moving. Its appearance and color made me think of a Zeppelin. Then I continued walking and the object disappeared behind the roof of a house and some trees, because I moved and the perspective changed. I expected to see it again where it should have reappeared, but it remained disappeared.

Claude Toft Park

 Then I walked back to where I had seen the object last, because this was strange. A slow moving blimp should still have been in about the same position in the sky. But the object was no longer there. All this happened within a few seconds. After I reached the top of the hill I walked down to the beach promenade, I could see that there was a lot of activity in Claude Toft Park, next to the beach; it looked like a festival was going on. At the seafront I had a clear view of the whole sky, and I asked people about having seen a blimp or if balloons had been launched for the festivities, but no one had seen anything. I ran into a friend, who owned a local amusement arcade, and I asked him what was going on, and he told me it was “College Week”. He also hadn’t seen any unusual activities in the sky.

About two weeks after this I saw a headline in a magazine at a newsstand: “Major UFO flap reported over Irish coast and England”. After I had seen a (cigar shaped, grey color), UFO in Galway, Salthill in 1986, I saw two or four weeks later a headline on a magazine cover: “UFO flap 1986! Coast of Ireland and UK“. Most likely the magazine was “The Fortean Times”.

That’s why I ask here, can anyone confirm this story?

There’s a bit more to it, a few years later a local artist decided to make circles in the location where I had seen the UFO. A large number of witnesses had seen UFO’s and reported them. Corroborative evidence that UFO’s were active around Ireland at the time, I found 30 years later. My particular sighting is not mentioned, but there were a number of reports.

Amongst them is the Prince Charles UFO from 23. Feb. 1986. 23 February 1986 – Irish Sea, Irish Sea –  It claimed that Prince Charles had a close encounter with a UFO, whilst returning from a visit to the United States. Prince Charles and four other planes spot luminous red UFO, hovers near the royal plane. The story makes tabloid newspapers.

By coincidence a local artist and archaeologist decided 7 years later, to create megalithic-like stone circles in the location where I had seen the UFO. He timed and aligned the circles with the impact of the comet Shoemaker Levy 9 on Jupiter. The artist had not known about my UFO sighting.

Brief: Three shoreline circles were discovered in Ireland in 1984 after an UFO sighting. 32 years later they are still there!  The general area came to my attention because of the sighting of a cigar-shaped UFO, during the annual Salthill Festival (ca. 1983-84).

Two weeks later a string of sightings had been reported along the Irish coast in a tabloid newspaper.

 Seven Earth-Size Planets of Trappist-1

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

TRAPPIST-1: Sarah Lewin writes, a solar system full of possibility as Astronomers have discovered the first known system to host seven Earth-size planets around one star, and it lies just 39 light-years away from our own solar system.

Using data from the TRAPPIST telescope in Chile and other ground-based telescopes, as well as NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the researchers identified the sizes, orbits and masses of most of the planets — suggesting that they all may be rocky, like Earth, and that three of them are in the habitable zone, where liquid water might linger and life as we know it could find a foothold. TRAPPIST-1 system. [Images: The 7 Earth-Size Worlds of TRAPPIST-1]

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Helicopters Chasing Drones Part 2

by Bob Spearing, MUFON Special Assignment Team and International Case Assistance Group, MUFON National

Director of Spain and India, publisher of www.worldufowatch.com

Reaper Military Drone

 On March 9, 2016, USA Today ran an article suggesting that the United States Military was in compliance with a law that required them to seek special approval to operate drones within civilian airspace and only in the most necessary of circumstances. In all, the military made less than 20 requests between 2006 and 2015. Additionally, USA Today stated that the U.S. Military flew nine missions between 2011 and 2016, largely to assist with search and rescue, floods, fires or National Guard exercises.

This article suggests that either the U.S. Military is abusing that privilege or they are circumventing it by using non-military assets such as NSA or CIA and have flown far more missions than they are admitting. Additionally, these unknown drones are either being pursued or escorted by black choppers with no anti-collision lighting. It is alarming UFO researchers in the process. The incidents here below clearly exceed the number of cases suggested by the USA Today article and none of these incidents are probably any of the government mentioned flights in the newspaper article.

Black Hawk

All of the following cases were reported to The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)in a thirteen-month period.

Rapid City S.D — Case # 77097, June 16, 2016, 11 PM as follows:

“Sitting out on my front porch right before bed, I noticed object by sound thinking it was our light helicopter as it is tourist season which is very typical as you know this happens in an attraction area. I thought it seemed awful early in season to start with life light but then realized there was a helicopter following a very bright white light.  Also, noticed 2 faint “star like” lights FAR above flying overhead simultaneously. Then the bright light disappeared and re-appeared in front of the helicopter. “

Newton/Rockingham NH Shortly thereafter MUFON Case # 77796, July 19, 2016, 9:40 PM occurred as follows:

“I was in my house, windows open when I heard a loud helicopter approaching. I ran out on my back porch and saw a red light or orb high in the air fly directly over my house from east to west, then a low flying helicopter following behind it. They were both flying exact same direction at about the same speed but the copter was much lower than the light/orb. They flew out of sight, due to trees the observation was approx. 10 seconds. Unable to see color of copter due to darkness but it was large, and very loud, it also seemed to be much lower than the object and followed directly behind it. I have no idea what it was, it did not have an outline which made me think it was just a light or orb, it traveled straight and had a consistent speed. I felt afraid as if the military was chasing this unknown object. “

Nashua — New Hampshire would again be revisited In MUFON Case #79839, November 15, 2016, 7:40 PM as follows:

“At approximately 7:40 PM EST I heard an extremely loud, very low-flying helicopter somewhere over the woods behind my apartment in the southern area of Nashua which is not at all a normal occurrence here. We grew increasingly alarmed as the helicopter’s sound grew louder and louder until we could feel the building vibrating from it. My oldest son (14) and I stepped out onto the balcony to look for the helicopter – it sounded like it was practically on top of us, but too low and close to see it over the tree line. My first thought was that it might be the police tracking someone on the ground in the woods, except this helicopter was

SO loud – sounded more like a Black Hawk than the standard choppers that police/news uses. And we couldn’t see searchlights of any kind over the woods. Suddenly we saw a reddish/orange light break over the tree line headed south. Our balcony faces west and this light was running straight & perpendicular across our view. It was a large orb shape, flying very fast in a perfectly straight line – skimming above the trees no more than a few hundred feet off the ground, and a few hundred yards from us. We had a clear view of it for just a couple of seconds before it was lost behind the trees again. It didn’t weave or change course, didn’t wobble, or change colors/size/shape. There were no other lights on it, and it didn’t appear to pulse. Following just behind it was a large helicopter which appeared to be pursuing the object. The helicopter appeared military in design and was large and dark colored, either black or gray with only a couple of small red lights on it and no visible markings that I could see. The orb appeared to accelerate slightly while it was in view but then backed off a bit, as if it was trying to stay just out of reach of the helicopter. We had a clear view of both the object and the chopper together in the sky for a moment, and the orb appeared to be about 1/3 to ½ as large as the helicopter. The whole incident lasted no more than about 30-45 seconds from first hearing the helicopter to when the object and helicopter disappeared over the trees headed south. “

However, before the second New Hampshire sighting, September saw a flurry of reports of dark helicopters pursuing orb-like objects.

Fountain, CO — On September 16^th, MUFON Case # 79232, 9/16/16 at12 am reads as follows:

“I just pulled my car into the drive way a little after midnight last night, when I was locking my car I heard what sounded like an airplane, living by an airport I know that no flights came in so late. So, I stood in my driveway to see what kind of airplane it was. Suddenly I see a white orb of light going over the roof tops and over the trees. Not far behind were 3 black helicopters in a triangle shaped flight pattern following the craft at very high speeds. The craft then made a left hand turn towards the mountains, that’s when I see one of the helicopters intercept the craft, getting in front of it, that’s when I lose sight of the craft over the roofs of nearby houses. But I still stood to listen to the helicopters to see if they are still in the area. I know that this wasn’t an airplane or helicopter due to the fact that it had no blinking lights or defined shape, and made no sound at all. When I took my cell phone out to record video the sky was too dark. Beforehand my cell phone was around 20% about a minute or two before I saw the craft. But when I took it out to try and record the video I noticed my battery life was on 2%.”

Morning View, Kentucky – as first in September with two sightings 5 minutes apart. MUFON Case # 79516, 9/26/16

“… He yelled oh my god come out side there’s a ufo. I ran out I seen to my right a low flying blacked out had to be military helicopter with one red light at the bottom chasing a ball of light. They flew low way less than 500ft. I saw them to my right flying closer to the left above the tree line. I seen the ball of light fly under the helicopter the helicopter tilted the front end down as if to get a better look. Then the ball of light banked a wide right then it was out of view. The helicopter went the direction it went then it was over. We called a friend who lives a few miles away he said he even heard the helicopter fly over his house.”

Morning View, Kentucky Second report at 8:25 pm was MUFON Case # 79436 as follows:

“I was letting my dog in my house when I heard a helicopter behind the tree line by our house. Expecting a helicopter to come over the trees but instead I see a white ball of light come first. It was just gliding through the air very smoothly then following the light came the helicopter it was black with only one flashing light on the bottom. The light zipped forward away from the chopper then the light stopped as it was waiting on the chopper to catch up. Then the light even went under the chopper and then zipped out in front of the chopper again before making a large swooping right turn very fast behind the opposite tree line which it appeared. The chopper followed with much much slower swooping right turn behind the tree line as it tried to stay with the light. I could no longer see either aircraft only could hear the loud thuds of the chopper getting further away from our house.  I then called my friend who lives a few miles up the road in the direction that the objects came and him and his girlfriend did hear the helicopter pass over their home as well but did go outside to see the light and helicopter.

Palmyra, NJ — clocked in on September 24^th, with MUFON Case # 79372 at 8:57 PM as follows:

“I was walking back to my house through the parking lot when I heard the sound of large helicopters arriving – then I saw two helicopters flying in loose formation (about 2000 ft. apart at the same altitude (approx. 2500 ft.) and one trailing the other) they both had either bright landing lights, or search lights pointed in the direction of flight. I assumed they were military because we often see formation flights of two of either CH-47S or UH-60S flying along the Delaware River. However, as the flight came to nearly over head, I observed the lead helicopter was actually following another unknown aircraft, which was approximately 1000 ft. in front of the lead helicopter. This unknown aircraft did not have flashing anti-collision lights (“strobes”) nor the primary red flashing light, however, it appeared to have one or more very dim whitish lights, not flashing.

As this unknown made a gentle turn to the South, the flight of two helicopters pursued this unknown. Since it was after dark, I was unable to definitively identify the type of helicopters these were, but I could barely make out the size of the airframe against the back-drop of the night sky – on the other hand, I was not able to make out any definite airframe size or shape of the unknown these appeared to be pursuing, except for very dim unflashing light(s). It looked as if they were pursuing a small drone, except the airspeed of the flight was doing at least 90 knots or faster, so I don’t think it really was a drone. There was no sound of a different engine type other than the two helicopters. The flight of the two helicopters perusing the unknown disappeared to the SW of my position at a level flight altitude of about 2000 to 2500 feet.”

Athens, NY — November saw two sightings of this odd pairing. First, MUFON Case # 80186 11/3/16 7:20 PM:

On the evening of November 3rd, 2016, my wife and I were playing with our infant daughter on the living room floor when I heard a loud helicopter approaching outside. As I got up to observe the helicopter from our rear deck, I noticed that it was low flying (approximately 500 feet), and flying North along Interstate 87. I then noticed a small steady burning red light far out ahead and to the left of it. Both continued on in perfect formation north bound until they were out of sight. I was unable to hear anything but the helicopter, or make out the shape of the object with the red light being trailed. “

Port Angeles WA Second, in November, we have MUFON Case # 80705 11/29/16 8:29 PM:

“I was in my yard at 8:30 pm on 11/29/16 when I heard a large heavy helicopter. It had been announced the prior day on local news radio that electronic warfare games would be occurring over Clallam County. So, the helicopter was no surprise. The helicopter was at about 250 feet moving at 50 to 70 mph. It approached from SE and flew  directly towards my house. It turned on a spotlight and lit me up. It appeared to be alone. As it passed directly overhead and began to fly away I saw an orange light within one helicopter length of the helicopter. It was ahead, below and starboard. It did not change position relative to the helicopter. I watched them until they disappeared flying NW. When I first saw the object my initial thought was that it was a bright as Venus orange star. But there are no such stars and stars don’t maintain positions relative to helicopters. Then I thought it must be an American made UFO. I have seen a similar object flying a non-aerodynamic and non-ballistic trajectory in Coeur d Alene, Idaho during daylight.

A large helicopter (SH 3 Sea King?) was escorting a dark object.”

Cummings Georgia –lastly, in December 2016 we come to MUFON Case # 80841 12/2/16 7:22 PM:

“Friday night December 2nd, 2016, I was sitting in my hot tub out on my back patio. I was facing south towards the back of my house. I heard the faint chop – chop- chop of a helicopter and just a few seconds after I heard the first “chop” I saw a red light (I assume it was a running light from the helicopter) in the sky emerge heading Southwest. This is a fairly common occurrence here as we see news and traffic choppers fairly often. The chopper proceeded south for approximately 30 seconds. I didn’t give it another thought and went back to enjoying the tub. Within another 30 seconds, I started hearing the chopper again but this time (even over the noise of the 6 HP tub jets) it was getting considerably louder. I leaned up and looked towards the sound and the red light was coming back towards my way on a North/Northeast heading and moving fast, very fast. At this point the rotor chop was getting so incredibly loud, I reached over and turned the tub jets off because I couldn’t believe what I was hearing and now feeling in my chest.

The chop was so powerful that I then realized this has to be a military chopper. I couldn’t see the chopper itself yet but I could see its red running light (The only light visible) as it approached. A few seconds later, the chopper passed right in front of me just above treetop height. When it passed by, the chopper was completely black as in there were no lights emanating from the cabin, just the red running light. This is where it gets interesting… Just in front of the chopper, about 50 to 70 feet, was a tubular shaped glowing white object silently screaming by. I know it made no discernible noise simply because the chopper thump thump thump is intermittent. If this was a jet or a missile going that fast, I feel very confident it would have made a loud jet engine or rocket sound. It was silent. I reported this to MUFON because of the following reasons: 1. it was an extremely fast and powerful military style chopper 2. It was flying way below legal altitude (just above treetops) 3. It was obvious to me that the chopper was chasing something due to its very fast and erratic flight path 4. Right as it passed in front of my line of sight, I saw what it was chasing as described above. 5. When the chopper abruptly changed course, it was now coming towards me and did not have a white light coming out of the front of it. 6. And finally, because this all happened over a residential area.”

So, the question should be asked… what is going on here? This is clearly not coincidence. There are too many cases, countrywide, of the same phenomenon to be excused as an anomaly. There is a pattern!

If the military is forbidden from performing this kind of activity with drones over civilian areas, then who is doing it? Is it CIA, NSA, FBI or Shadow Government if not our military?

Are these objects being escorted or are they being chased? Are they terrestrial or otherwise? Ultimately, are they ours or are they theirs – whoever they might be?

Let’s investigate! A very influential inner circle member of MUFON suggests that based upon his previous hi level clearance; these may be examples of electronic warfare exercises with drones used by the U.S. Military.

There is a problem with that right there. First, we have military style helicopters and possible drones operating over civilian neighborhoods in the United States. Military aircraft CAN operate in civilian airspace by filing a simple flight plan. Drones cannot. Secondly, helicopters flying within civilian airspace need to display navigational, anti-collision and directional lighting in order to avoid collisions with other aircraft. This includes military aircraft. The aircraft in question pursuing the orbs have at most one red beacon displayed with no anti-collision lighting at all.

Thirdly, it is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS for helicopters to fly at treetop levels. As per an anonymous National Guardsman pilot I interviewed based out of New Jersey who has over 31 years’ helicopter flight experience especially with

Sikorsky Blackhawk helicopters, he stated “flying at treetop level is almost suicidal. Even with night vision goggles which are almost universal for nighttime flights, the avoidance of telephone lines and cell phone towers at those low altitudes is a second to second avoidance maneuver that the military does not condone except in the most critical of situations!”

  “Additionally, while we may fly without lights and our military designations may be hard to see in the dark leading to “black ops fears”. Our insignia are on the outside of our craft and we do fly with anti-collision lights. We may fly without other lights as to not interfere with the night vision goggles which are sensitive to bright flashes and could shut down accordingly, BUT we do not fly totally blacked out as these helicopters do. “

“Finally, the Sikorsky Blackhawks, which I do fly, are a relatively silent stealthy aircraft. If these helicopters flying over neighborhoods are making windows shudder and making people’s chests vibrate they must be heavy body choppers such as the make and model the witnesses are suggesting.” So, who are these blacked out tree top level suicidal helicopters chasing red or orange orbs? A National Guardsman Blackhawk pilot with 31 years flying experience says emphatically “They are not ours!”

Where are they coming from? They are seen over a national geographical scale from New York to Washington DISPLAYING THE SAME BEHAVIORS. They have fuel tank allowing them no more than 500 miles’ total before refueling thus the evidence suggests they come from American military bases. So, are they performing illegal exercises in civilian airspace utilizing electronic warfare modes with drones? The answer is probably yes. The other more ominous answer is that they are chasing UNKNOWNS from origins unknown which is a very scary proposition. by Bob Spearing, MUFON Special Assignment Team and International Case Assistance Group, MUFON National Director of Spain and India, publisher of www.worldufowatch.com

Is TV News Committing Treason?

After an eight year slumber and the betrayal of every journalistic principle during the Obama administration, American journalists want to make journalism great again by destroying Trump. It’s one thing to report the news, another to editorialize throughout the reports on TV National news. I have yet to see a favorable news item on ABC, CBS, or NBC. The US is at war with ISIS, and the news media is conducting a propaganda war against the President with lies and half truths.

It is my opinion ABC is giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States and conducting treason with its propaganda war. After the President’s speech regarding immigrant problems in Sweden he was called a liar on the national news. Interestingly the Democrats in Sweden came to his aid, claiming there were more than a million criminal incidents, rapes, riots, 50 grenades being tossed at police in 2016 over the previous year. NBC is interviewing children who speak about being afraid of Trump. They do not tell the news; they find someone who will speak against him.

The Law for Treason states: Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

I have chosen not to buy any product advertised on the nightly national news.