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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld
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Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie! Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek! België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch. Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen! Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie. Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen. Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek! Blijf Op De Hoogte! Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren! Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.

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ENORME UFO'S VLAKBIJ VLIEGTUIG

ENORME UFO'S VLAKBIJ VLIEGTUIG

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Misschien komt het doordat het drukker wordt in het luchtruim dat er steeds vaker UFO’s worden waargenomen door passagiers vanuit vliegtuigen? 

Ook nu zijn er enkele van die waarnemingen in Amerika, waarbij eentje bij een bekende onderwaterbasis voor UFO’s, net voor de kust van Californië. 


Op 7 april 2017 reist een gezin met een vliegtuig van de luchtvaartmaatschappij Frontier van Philadelphia in Pennsylvania naar Charlotte in North Carolina. 

Het is rond de middag en hun 7-jarige zoon zit bij het raam en roept naar zijn ouders om naar buiten te kijken omdat hij een ruimteschip in de lucht ziet.


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De ouders nemen meerdere foto’s en wanneer je inzoomt, dan zie je inderdaad een aantal objecten die niet thuishoren in het landschap. 

Volgens UFO experts zijn het ook grote objecten, ongeveer een paar kilometer in lengte. Waar deze waarneming veel op lijkt, zijn de UFO’s die enkele jaren geleden door mijnwerkers in Chili werden waargenomen en waar toen kleinere UFO’s uit tevoorschijn kwamen.


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Wat we wel hebben geleerd in de loop der jaren is om dit soort objecten niet af te doen als “wolken”, want dikwijls blijken ze dat echt niet te zijn.


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Naast dit verhaal is er nog een vergelijkbare waarneming, eveneens door een gezin uit Amerika aan boord van een vliegtuig, dit keer van Los Angeles naar Hawaï. 

Het verhaal wordt verteld door Carlos en Yvette die net na het opstijgen vanaf Los Angeles vanuit het raam een zilverkleurige glinsterende schijf zien. Het object scheen volkomen stil te hangen en nadat men erin geslaagd was om een aantal foto’s te nemen, was het plotsklaps verdwenen.

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In de video hieronder wordt het stel geïnterviewd door onderzoeker L.A. Mazulli die heel erg geïnteresseerd is in dit object, omdat het is gefilmd net voor de kust waar zich al jaren een zogenaamde UFO hotspot bevindt en er sprake schijnt te zijn van een ondergronds UFO basis voor de kust. 

 

Is bovenstaande ufo misschien afkomstig uit die ondergrondse basis waarover wij eerder het volgende schreven: 

Nu lijkt het erop dat de ingang van deze basis, net voor de kust van Californië, misschien is ontdekt.

Onlangs werd er via een het Amerikaanse radiostation, Dark Matter Radio, een bizarre ontdekking bekendgemaakt.

Het betreft een gigantische onderwateringang net voor de kust van Malibu bij wat men noemt Point Dume. Het is een soort plateaustructuur van ongeveer 2,2 bij 4 kilometer. Het bevindt zich op een afstand van precies 6,66 mijl (10,7 kilometer) vanaf de kust.


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De ruimte tussen de pilaren is 837 meter en de hoogte 192 meter. Het dak van het plateau is 150 meter dik en lijkt zelfs bestand tegen nucleaire explosies. Het geheel bevindt zich op een diepte van 450 meter onderwater.

De streek rond Malibu is al jarenlang een “hotspot” voor UFO’s en ook doen al die tijd al verhalen de ronde over een ondergrondse buitenaardse basis voor de kust. Is dit dan misschien eindelijk de oplossing voor dit raadsel?

De ingang is groot genoeg voor ruimteschepen van aanzienlijke omvang en eventueel ook voor nucleaire onderzeeërs. Al vanaf de jaren vijftig worden er met grote regelmaat UFO’s waargenomen in dit deel van Californië. In de jaren zeventig was het de gewoonte van veel gezinnen om als uitje naar Point Dume te gaan om daar de veelkleurige UFO’s onder water te zien verdwijnen.

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UFO Over Home In Secluded Forest Area, Massachusetts, April 9, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

 UFO Over Home In Secluded Forest Area, Massachusetts, April 9, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: April 9, 2017
Location of sighting: Leominster, Massachusetts, USA
News Source: MUFON #83068
 
The digital eye is more perfect and catches more detail than our flawed human eyes. Here is such an example. A UFO was hovering in a secluded wooded area over a house when it was caught. It was probably over the house to scan its residence, their mental and physical health and the technology in the home. 
Scott C. Waring
 
Eyewitness states: 
While sky fishing (taking a cluster of photos less than a second apart of the same spot of the sky) I captured a silver sphere. I had seen light anomalies in this particular part of the sky and landscape in the past and decided to take a burst of 35 photos to see if I could capture anything. Upon examining the photos, 1 of them showed a small silver sphere hovering over a house/wooded area. It was tough to gauge the distance and the size of the object. There were no birds or bugs close to the camera (iPhone) at the time and no other blurs,that would suggest something was in flight,showed up in any of the other photos.

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Translucent UFO Seen From Plane Window Over New York, April 2017, UFO Sighting News.

Translucent UFO Seen From Plane Window Over New York, April 2017, UFO Sighting News.
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Date of sighting: April 2, 2017
Location of sighting: New York, USA
News source: MUFON #83056
 
Do you remember a report where I personally was on top of my 8 floor apartment building and spotted a baseball size translucent orb rise up from the buildings edge at a speed of 5 inches a second...3 meters from me? It looked like the orb above, but then when I flipped my tripod 180 degrees to face it, it had shot 50 meters away in 2 seconds! Yes, I got it on video, but at that distance it looked white, like the photo below. I frightened it by moving fast, and its color changed...it reacted to my fast movement at grabbing the tripod behind me. What I'm saying is that this is 100% real. This is a an entity that can hear our thoughts...thats how I called it to me in the first place. (Video of my experience here)
Scott C. Waring
 
Eyewitness states:
While on a Delta Airlines flight from NY to Fort Lauderdale flying over the Norther Atlantic Ocean, flying at approximately 29,000 feet, several passengers and I observed a silver oval object hovering over the clouds. The object changed from solid to translucent. I took several photographs of the object with my I-phone. The object was at an altitude of approximately 40,000 feet. The object was last observed moving in an unknown direction into clouds. No other aircraft were observed at the time of the sighting. At first sight I thought the object was a plane and then a weather balloon, but then the object was observed to appear to almost disappear/invisible or become translucent in quick intervals.

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Below you can't see it, but I had my camera on a tripod facing the sky behind me...but the UFO appeared in front of me2-3 meters ahead. So I lunged at the tripod, flipping it, but that little @#$#ing UFO shot off 50 meters pissing me all to hell. 

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Shape-Shifting Orbs Hover Above Auckland

Shape-Shifting Orbs Hover Above Auckland

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A couple has released a clip showing a strange object that they suspected a UFO. Auckland couple Lance and Patricia Rasmussen said they have been observing coloured orbs flying in the sky for the past year at their home in Manukau Heads.

They said the objects’ descriptions do not fit any terrestrial origins, such as drones or planes.

Security cameras captured a video of a circular object hovering in the sky metres away from the couple’s home.

For several seconds, the object darts in various directions, before flying upwards in tremendous speed and off the camera’s view.

Mrs Rasmussen said that they had taken hundreds of pictures showing different objects hovering metres away over their roof.

Mr Rasmussen shared that these mysterious objects have the size three times of a CD and have the ability to change shapes. He added that they also stay up for more than two or three hours while changing colours right in front of their eyes, according to Mr Rasmussen.

The couple is not sure whether these objects mean any harm or anything like it. They also filed a report to the Civil Aviation Authority about the strange incidents they have been encountering. However, the CAA spokesperson said that they always tell people who reported UFOs that if there was something untoward, then they expect it to be airways or pilots have something to do with it.

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Strange rock with ‘alien’ patterns may FINALLY crack the 70-year-old Roswell UFO case, claim conspiracy theorists

Strange rock with ‘alien’ patterns may FINALLY crack the 70-year-old Roswell UFO case, claim conspiracy theorists

  • The mysterious rock was found in September 2004 near Roswell, New Mexico
  • It contained markings and magnetic properties said to be of alien origin
  • A video by alien hunting YouTube channel SecureTeam10 explores its origins

A strange object, named the Roswell Rock, is continuing to trigger debate 13 years on from its discovery.

The mystery rock was found in the New Mexico desert close to the infamous site of an alleged UFO crash continues to spark debate.

Conspiracy theorists believe it is of alien origins and may have been part of the 'flying saucer' reported in the area back in 1947. 

They say understanding the rock could finally help them solve the 70-year-old Roswell UFO case.  

A new YouTube video by alien hunting channel SecureTeam10 seeks to explore the mysteries surrounding the Roswell Rock. Conspiracy theorists have suggested it is everything from a part from a UFO to a key to inter-dimensional travel

A new YouTube video by alien hunting channel SecureTeam10 seeks to explore the mysteries surrounding the Roswell Rock. Conspiracy theorists have suggested it is everything from a part from a UFO to a key to inter-dimensional travel

ROSWELL ROCK 

The Roswell Rock was found by Robert Ridge, in September 2004.

Alien conspiracy theorists have suggested it is everything from a part from a UFO to a key to inter-dimensional travel.

It is said to have perplexing magnetic properties, which haven't been explained by science.

If a magnet is held to the north end of the rock, it is said to spin counter-clockwise, with the opposite effect occurring when held at the southern end. 

It is also etched with strange symbols, which have been compared to the lunar cycle.

They also match perfectly with crop circles that appeared in Chisledon, England on August 2, 1996.

The rock was found by Robert Ridge, then 56, who was out hunting deer one afternoon back in September 2004. 

Mr Ridge says he discovered the rock partially buried in the desert sand, near Roswell, new Mexico.

Now, a new YouTube video by alien hunting channel SecureTeam10 seeks to explore the mysteries surrounding the object.

Many alien conspiracy theorists believe that it is part of the UFO which they believed crashed at Roswell back in the 1940s.

Others believe that the object was left behind on a previous visit by aliens and was the reason the craft that crashed vehicle was in Roswell that day - in order to retrieve the evidence.  

And television personality Giorgio Tsoukalos - well know in UFO circles for his History Channel programme Ancient Aliens - has made claims regarding inter-dimensional travel.

SecureTeam10 is one of the most viewed YouTube channels, with over 840,000 people subscribing to its conspiracy videos.

Speaking in the latest video, which has received over 100,000 views - creator Tyler Glockner said: '[The rock] was discovered back in 2004, sticking out of the dirt in Roswell, New Mexico, in a basically barren, empty area of desert close to where the infamous Roswell crash occurred.

'The rock was very smooth, rounded, and it contained these mysterious symbols that looked to show almost what looks like a lunar cycle of the Moon.

Mysterious 'alien' rock found in desert raises questions

It's been theorised that this rock may have been part of the wreckage from the Roswell crash.

'Or, that this rock - which is said to hold some very mysterious powers, was actually left behind by a previous alien visitation, and that the Roswell crash was what occurred when these aliens had come back to Earth to retrieve the mystery rock.' 


The rock was reportedly discovered partially buried in the desert sand near Roswell, new Mexico, the alleged site of a UFO crash in 1947

The rock was reportedly discovered partially buried in the desert sand near Roswell, new Mexico, the alleged site of a UFO crash in 1947

The rock was found by Robert Ridge (pictured), then 56, who was out hunting deer one afternoon back in September 2004

The rock was found by Robert Ridge (pictured), then 56, who was out hunting deer one afternoon back in September 2004

The markings match perfectly with crop circles that appeared in Chisledon, England on August 2, 1996

The markings match perfectly with crop circles that appeared in Chisledon, England on August 2, 1996

ROSWELL UFOS 

Roswell, New Mexico sprang to international fame on July 8, 1947, when the local newspaper reported the capture of a 'flying saucer' by government officials in the town.

Over the decades since the discovery, conspiracy theorists have insisted that the debris came from an alien spacecraft, and that the fact was covered up by the military in their secret hangar, Area 51.

The continuing belief of alien activity in the area led the Air Force to launch an investigation into the crash in 1995.

Officials concluded that the 'UFO' was part of a balloon launched into the atmosphere as part of a secret government surveillance programme aimed at the USSR.

However, many have refused to accept that explanation, alleging a conspiracy to hide the existence of extra-terrestrial life.

The mystery rock is said to have perplexing magnetic properties.

If a magnet is held to the north end of the rock, it is said to spin counter-clockwise, with the opposite effect occurring when held at the southern end. 

The video claims that X-rays and CT scans have revealed no evidence of mangets placed inside the rock - which would suggest it is a hoax.

It is also said to not contain any known natural minerals which would explain its magnetism.

The Rockwell Rock is also etched with strange symbols, which have been compared to the lunar cycle.

They also match perfectly with crop circles that appeared in Chisledon, England on August 2, 1996.

Roswell, New Mexico sprang to international fame on July 8, 1947, when the local newspaper reported the capture of a 'flying saucer' by government officials in the town.

Roswell, New Mexico sprang to international fame on July 8, 1947, when the local newspaper reported the capture of a 'flying saucer' by government officials in the town. The original Roswell hoax alien autopsy pictures, including this one, were unveiled in 1995

Roswell, New Mexico sprang to international fame on July 8, 1947, when the local newspaper reported the capture of a 'flying saucer' by government officials in the town. The original Roswell hoax alien autopsy pictures, including this one, were unveiled in 1995

Over the decades since the discovery, conspiracy theorists have insisted that the debris came from an alien spacecraft, and that the fact was covered up by the military in their secret hangar, Area 51. 

The continuing belief of alien activity in the area led the Air Force to launch an investigation into the crash in 1995.

Officials concluded that the 'UFO' was part of a balloon launched into the atmosphere as part of a secret government surveillance programme aimed at the USSR.

However, many have refused to accept that explanation, alleging a conspiracy to hide the existence of extra-terrestrial life.

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Mystery rock found at Roswell 'UFO' site continues to sparks wild conspiracy theories

Mystery rock found at Roswell 'UFO' site continues to sparks wild conspiracy theories

Alien hunters believe the rock contains special powers - and could be some kind of key to open up a portal in space

BY KARA O'NEILL

A bizarre object known as the Roswell Rock continues to spark wild conspiracy theories - 13 years after it was found.

The rock, discovered back in 2004, features a mysterious pattern and reportedly unusual magnetic properties.

It was found close to the site of the alleged UFO crash site in Roswell, New Mexico.

And now the discussion has resurfaced after Tyler Glockner, founder of alien hunting website Secure Team 10, made a video to discuss its origin.

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The Roswell Rock was found close to the crash site  (Photo: Getty)

Tyler says: "It was discovered back in 2004, sticking out of the dirt in Roswell, New Mexico, in a basically barren, empty area of desert close to where the infamous Roswell crash occurred."

The Roswell crash in 1947 is one of the most exhaustively investigated (and debunked) UFO conspiracy theory .

A United States Air Force balloon that crashed at a ranch near Roswell, Mexico, led many conspiracy theorists to believe that the 'air balloon' was actually an alien spacecraft and that extra-terrestrial bodies had been found and covered up by the military.

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The Roswell crash has been the subject of many conspiracy theories

Interest in the UFO theory peaked in the 1970s and still persists to this day, despite a report released by the US military in the 1990s which revealed that the object was actually a nuclear test surveillance balloon.

Robert Ridge was the man who supposedly found the mysterious rock, which he took home and cleaned before he allegedly realised the object's significance.

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Tyler adds: "The rock was very smooth, rounded, and it contained these mysterious symbols that looked to show almost what looks like a lunar cycle of the Moon.

"It's been theorised that this rock may have been part of the wreckage from the Roswell crash.

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Conspiracy theorists believe that alien bodies were found at the site of the crash

"Or, that this rock - which is said to hold some very mysterious powers, was actually left behind by a previous alien visitation, and that the Roswell crash was what occurred when these aliens had come back to Earth to retrieve the mystery rock."

Tyler says that putting a magnet to the 'north' end of the rock causes the object to spin anti-clockwise, but as the magnet was moved down to the 'south' end of the rock, it would move in the other direction.

Radiologists have since analysed the rock and allegedly confirmed that the rock does not contain any magnets inside.

Tyler's video has now been viewed more than 97,400 times since yesterday.

One viewer wrote: "I believe in extra-terrestrials but I'm pretty skeptical about a man finding a random rock out in the middle of the desert, he must have been looking real hard because you can't tell me that thing would be easy to spot with all the other rocks in the desert."

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Major Jesse Marcel with debris found 75 miles north west of Roswell, NM, in June 1947  (Photo: Getty)

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But another YouTube user was less cynical, adding: "The Roswell Rock was found between the mountain & the crash site.

"The Rock has been CT scanned, X-rayed, dated, material tested & everything they can think of! It is a genuine rock and has not been altered.

"The design on the rock is reverse imprinted - meaning the design is raised, not imprinted.

"It is thought to be some sort of encrypted "key" based on the raised-print & strange magnetic properties.

"(The magnetic properties do not act like a normal magnet but have some other interesting properties.)"

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Filer’s Files #15 -2017 Cydonia Earth-Mars Connection - PART I

UFO photographed over Las Vegas, Nevada on April 4, 2017

UFO photographed over Las Vegas, Nevada on April 4, 2017

Filer’s Files #15 -2017 Cydonia Earth-Mars Connection - PART I

In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut Gordon Cooper saw UFOs, UFOs in the Bible, Delaware Morning News on August 2. 1909 Reports Airships Seen at Night, The Cydonia Earth-Mars Connection, and Idaho UFOs near Air Base

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wyoming

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Kenya, Netherlands, Sweden, 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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MUFON Eastern Region Director

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Astronaut colonel l. Gordon Cooper and UFOs

“I wanted to convey to you my views on our extra-terrestrial visitors popularly referred to as ‘ UFOs,’ and suggest what might be done to properly deal with them.”

“I believe that these extraterrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on Earth. I feel that we need to have a top level, coordinated program to scientifically collect and analyze data from all over the earth concerning any type of encounter, and to determine how best to interface with these visitors in a friendly fashion. We may first have to show them that we have learned to resolve our problems by peaceful means, rather than warfare, before we are accepted as fully qualified universal team members. This acceptance would have tremendous possibilities of advancing our world in all areas. Certainly then it would seem that the UN has a vested interest in handling this subject properly and expeditiously.”

“If the UN agrees to pursue this project, and to lend their credibility to it, perhaps many more well qualified people will agree to step forth and provide help and information.”

“For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists and astronauts. I can now reveal that every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this, but nobody wants to make them public.”

COLONEL L. GORDON COOPER
Mercury and Gemini Astronaut
Address to the United Nations1985

UFOs in the Bible

Gary Colin writes, “I’ve studied the Bible for about 40 years. About 1992 I was inspired to take the name, “gat”. In 2005, I wrote, “Bible Symbolism What It Means to Your Salvation”. The Bible associates the word, “gat” with regeneration. I realized that regeneration is really a scientific “change” as opposed to a spiritual one. I reinvestigated the Bible from a scientific view point, and began to see that the Biblical clouds are the ships of “God” (Psalm Chapter 104; Ezekiel Chapter 1). I’ve also learned that God “sits” and rides in a “Mother Mountain” which He calls “Jerusalem” or “Zion” (Galatians 4:26; Revelation 21:1-5; Matthew 24:30-34). The Bible promised that as our earthly life without “God’s” direct presence comes to its end that “enlightened” information would be given to us (Daniel Chapters 11 and 12).

We’ve reached that time. The “Elohim” of the Bible were “gods” supervised by the Almighty God to oversee the creation and growth of “humans”. It will be these “Sons of the Gods (Elohim)” who return at this world’s end. Just as in the Days of Noah (Genesis 6:1-10; Matthew 24:30-end). God is Elohim. This name means “Strength” or “Power.” He is transcendent, mighty and strong. Elohim is the great name of God, displaying His supreme power, sovereignty, and faithfulness in His covenant relationship with us. Thanks, Gary Colin

Delaware Morning News on August 2. 1909 Reports Airships Seen at Night

MIDDLETOWN People of Middletown Tell Tales of Ghostly Dirigible with Lights August 1. — A mysterious airship which flies only at night is causing considerable excitement and keeping the people of Orange county residing between Goshen and Newburg up nights in their efforts to get a look at it. For the past month persons who have been out late at night have reported seeing an airship, but few believed the stories.

For a week or more the flying machine had not been seen, but at 11 o’clock last night it made its appearance near Goshen.  It was flying high in the air and carried a light which attracted attention.

It flew very fast and was last seen traveling in the direction of Newburg.   Those who have seen the machine say it is shaped like a balloon and has wings on each side and a cigar-shaped car underneath.   The sound of a motor was distinctly heard by those who saw the machine. (Thanks to Carl Feindt)

The Cydonia Earth-Mars Connection by Dr. Bruce Cornet

After reading “Silent Invasion” by Dr. Ellen Crystall in 1992, I began a 24 square mile magnetic survey of the area between Pine Bush, Newburgh, Wallkill, Walden, Montgomery, Goshen, and Middletown, New York.  I also did a geological survey from Newburgh, south to Pine Island and Warwick, NY.  The magnetic survey involved 1,800 stations of measurement using an EG&G Proton Precession Magnetometer.  It took me three years to complete this map.

Significant magnetic anomalies were found running up the center of the Wallkill River Valley, containing rocks ranging in age from Ordovician to Cambrian and older, including granitic intrusions and metavolcanic rocks of Precambrian age.  At first I focused on topographic maps around the UAP hotspot area between Pine Bush and Stewart International Airport at Newburgh, NY.  My background in remote sensing underground geologic structures based on surface patterns of rivers and streams led me to spot a circular pattern of streams and hills due west of the town of Wallkill, NY, in 1992.  I produced a map of that feature, which is shown below:

In 1994 I met Richard C. Hoagland and his team in Weehawken, New Jersey, and learned about the Cydonia Complex of artificial monuments on Mars, which includes the Face on Mars.  I wanted to know why there was so much UAP activity in the Wallkill River Valley near Pine Bush, NY, and Hoagland had shown in a talk given at the United Nations in 1994 that there might be a connection between Avebury Circle and Silbury Hill in the U.K., and crop circle activity, which was believed to be the work of Extraterrestrial Visitors.  Hoagland compared Averbury Circle to the Crater on Mars, and Silbury Hill to the Tholus on Mars.

Courtesy of R. C. Hoagland 1994-1995

Having knowledge of a crater-like feature that resembled the Crater on Mars, and the possible connection between UAP activity and Avebury Circle in the U.K., I called Hoagland and asked him what the diameter of the Crater on Mars was?  He said, 2.3 miles.  I had already measured the crater-like feature on Earth, and found it to be 2.3 miles in diameter.  I then asked him what the Latitude was for the Crater on Mars.  He told me to contact his geologist, Jim Erjavic, who sent me a map. To my astonishment, the centers of both craters were nearly the same: 41 degrees 36 minutes.  The similarity seemed too much for mere coincidence, so I looked for other Cydonia features in the valley, and found the Tholus near Newburgh, NY, at the Stewart Air Force and Army Base, and International Airport.  For me it seemed as though I had hit the lottery twice in a row!

 

Because the Crater on Earth had been badly damaged by glaciers that came down the valley 50,000 years or more ago, during the last Ice Age, all that remained were telltale traces of the original crater margins.  In order to confirm that I was not deceiving myself, I superimposed the Crater on Mars over the topographic map of the Crater on Earth.  There are striking similarities in overall shape (see overlay below).  But what was most striking is that the Crater on Mars has an ‘X’ carved in its center, possibly placed there intentionally in order to draw attention to that Latitudinal position: N 41 degrees, 36 minutes.  And when I discovered that the center of the Crater on Earth was at approximately the same Latitude, the comparison became much more than mere coincidence.  Now there seemed to be a connection between the monuments on Mars and the remnants of similar monuments on Earth.  So I continued to look for more evidence of additional monuments on Earth that can be compared to those on Mars.

Because the Crater on Mars was discovered first, I call it Crater I, and call the Crater on Earth Crater II, even though Crater II may be older than Crater I.  But what surprised me most was that to the south of Crater II was a low ridge running northeast-southwest in the very same position as the Cliff I on Mars.  There is even a road running across the crest of Cliff II on Earth, and it is appropriately named Hill Avenue!  And the buried alien probe discovered under the Beth Hillel Jewish Cemetery along Rte. 54 is between Cliff II and Crater II (see Filer’s Files #5).  Had I just won the lottery three times in a row?

Before you jump to conclusions and dismiss these finds as coincidence, note that they appear to be at the same scale as the comparable features on Mars.  Science is the process of formulating theories and testing those theories.  So, the question became: Would I find a comparable feature to the Tholus on Earth?  Knowing the distance and approximate compass direction of the Tholus from the Crater on Mars based on Erjavic’s map, I pulled out more topographic maps to the East of Walden, NY.  There in the curl of the Ramapo Mountains, which would have protected the Tholus (meaning dome or breast) from glacial damage, I saw a feature that stunned me.  It was not only the same size and shape as the Tholus on Mars, but there is a satellite mound on Mars that has an exact duplicate on Earth, called Buchanan Hill.  Look at these features on Mars from Hoagland’s 1987, 1992 book, The Monuments of Mars, A City on the Edge of Forever (Figure 13, Frame 35A74 with labels added):

Hoagland pointed out correctly that the Tetrahedron on the rim of the Crater on Mars is an unnatural anomaly, and the Cliff built up upon the outsplash apron of that Crater is also an unnatural anomaly.  A Crater could have been artificially formed on Mars using a bolide of the right size and traveling at the right speed, but what is even more important is that the sediment that his bolide hit was liquefied to the point of splashing out to form an apron.  Does that mean those sediments are saturated with water?

When I examined the bedrock forming the remnants of Crater II on Earth I was expecting to find geologic impact features that would confirm the analog on Earth was also an impact feature.  I quickly discovered that it is not an impact feature, and the rocks in the area have not been deformed by an impact.  This means that the crater-like feature both on Earth and Mars does not symbolically represent an impact.  So what might the Crater II on Earth represent?  Could it represent a symbol for Earth, and the Tetrahedron on the rim of Crater I on Mars (the one on Earth was destroyed by the glaciers) represent the North Pole of Earth at the time that feature was carved out of bedrock on Earth?  This is something to think about.

Now take a look at the Tholus II and Satellite Mound II on Earth below.  The features on Earth are so well preserved that a perfect fit is only limited by erosion by rain and streams.  What I find interesting is that this area is now occupied by a military and civilian airport, and a nearby town is called, Little Britain, with a New Windsor to boot!  The British Kingdom is ruled by the Windsor family.  The features on Earth and Mars are at the same scale and orientation to other monuments in their respective complexes.  With this discovery, it seemed as though I had won the lottery four times in a row!

A beehive mound, also known as a tholos or tholus tomb (plural tholoi) or tumulus, is a burial structure characterized by a central room used either as a house, for spiritual worship, or as a burial chamber.  Tholoi are built on level ground and then enclosed by a mound of earth.  They vary in size and are frequently built in clusters, but can also be single stand-alone mounds.  Dr. Susan Martinez in her book, The Lost History of the Little People (2013), points out that similarly-shaped structures abound in ancient civilizations around the world, and represent spiritual houses for worship.  They are hollow and called “beehives” or “tumuli.”  They are sometimes called “Tepe,” meaning hill or mound, and most were built without windows.  Many were built with keyhole-like entrances to limit sunlight from entering the structure.  Shamans and spirit seekers would pray in the dark inside those mounds.

Excited by these discoveries, I began to wonder if I could find the Face.  Would it be preserved well enough for me to recognize?  I pulled out more topographic maps and measured distances to where the Face would be if it were the same distance and direction from the Tholus and Crater as on Mars.  When my measurements stopped, I was staring at a topographic feature that had a brow ridge, nose, two eye sockets, and a jaw.  My jaw dropped!  It soon became apparent that the Face on Earth is the mirror image of the Face on Mars: Appropriate and significant!  This was more than coincidence.

But could the enormous D&M Pyramid on Mars also have been constructed on Earth?  Clearly no such pyramid with a base of 3.2 square miles and a height of over 1,000 feet still existed in the valley, meaning that if it had once existed there, glaciers would have toppled it and spread its building blocks southwest down the valley.  And there was a lot of glacial debris to the southwest to account for such a structural mass.  And then I found a relatively flat area the size and shape of the D&M Pyramid just northeast of Warwick, NY, in the same relative position to the other monuments as on Mars.  But first let’s discuss the Face II on Earth and its significance:

The Wallkill River was diverted from its original course just to the north of the Face II.  The original channel for the river still exists as a Yazoo tributary, which connects at both ends to the artificial channel that was dug in the late 19th century to drain the marshland and swamp that existed south of the Face II, called the Drowned Lands.  The Face on Earth blocked the eight to 20 foot deep lake, because the original Wallkill River (spillway) was too high in elevation as it wrapped around the head of the Face II.  An artificial channel was dug through the deepest ravine in the dam formed by the Face – its mouth.  Today the Wallkill River snakes its way down the Cheechunk Canal through the mouth of the Face, giving the impression that the Face on Earth (FOE) is holding a serpent in its mouth.  The Yazoo tributary passes through a small lake called, Echo Lake, which reflects the mirror image of the Faces on Earth and Mars.

Bases to destroyed pyramids in the original City of Pyramids, reconstructed and preserved on Mars, formed islands before the Drowned Lands and lake were drained.  That is why today they are called Pine Island and Black Walnut Island, even though the lake no longer exists. Yes, a lake actually surrounded the monuments on Earth, just as proposed for the Cydonia plain and Face on Mars by Hoagland.

http://www.garbagegangstersandgreed.com/blog/the-wallkill-river-thecheechunk-canal-and-the-orange-county-landfill-a-brief-history

There is a huge landfill on the lower right cheek of the Face on Earth (FOE) called the Al Turi landfill.  It is leaking toxins into the Wallkill channel.  When I first learned of that landfill, its name reminded me of the star: Alpha Centuri.  Does this go along with Jack Kirby’s comic book Face on Mars (FOM) in 1958, 19 years before Viking 1 photographed the actual Face on Mars in 1976?  Weird synchronicities, And if you are crazy enough to believe in Face conspiracies (as opposed to academic differences of interpretation), you can reserve a room at the New York Psychiatric Hospital for the criminally insane, located on the right temporal lobe of the Face on Earth.

A festering toxic boil on the right cheek of our Face on Earth (FOE)?

The possible base to the D&M Pyramid is the same size and orientation as that pyramid on Mars, although considerably more work is needed to confirm its presence and location, along with the study of glacial eratics to the southwest, which may contain stone blocks from that pyramid.  At the Delaware Water Gap between Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey there are thousands of strange blocky stones of granite and basalt that were clearly deposited there as glacial moraine.  They are called the “ringing stones” at Ringing Rocks County Park.  Were some of them derived from giant pyramids?

There are also two mountains in the center of the valley near Pine Island and Warwick with strange names: Mt. Adam and Mt. Eve, and nearby there are small hamlets named Eden and Edenville.  They represent the types of granitic and metavolcanic islands that existed during the Late Ordovician when a sea covered this are.

The types of islands buried by those younger marine black shales further north, which entomb robotic alien probes discovered still resting on some of those islands and still sending out signals over 400 million years later (see Filer’s Files #5).  So this region has had much interest not only to early European settlers and Native Americans, but also to Visitors from other worlds.

Note the Latitudes of the “Crater” on Mars and on Earth: approximately 41 degrees 36 minutes for both, but there is an offset of 118,506 centimeters due to Continental Drift.  There is even an X carved at the center of the “Crater” on Mars, as if to bring that geographic point to our attention.

There is currently a 3,888 foot (118,506 cm) separation of these center points due to Continental Drift.  If the North American plate moved north as much as it moved west (about 1 cm per year), then that distance separation when converted to centimeters equals 118,506 years. That means the two “Craters” were at the same Latitude at the beginning of the last Wisconsinian Ice Age (end of the Eemian or Sangamonian Interglacial), which contains a 3,000 year period of global warming in its middle, where global temperatures rose 3-5 degrees Centigrade hotter than today!  “Cold, Hard Facts” (Popular Science, June 2013: 31-32)   was that period of global warming natural?  Was there a high-tech space-faring civilization on Earth during the previous Interglacial which destroyed itself during an interplanetary war, possible evidence for which is presented by Dr. John Brandenburg, Plasma Physicist and consultant for NASA, based on two enormous atomic explosions on Mars, which he thinks ended life on that planet’s surface?  There is too much radiation on Mars from artificial nuclear-derived isotopes, such as Xenon 129.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/745738/Life-on-Mars-wiped-outnuclear-war-Dr-John-Brandenburg

“Mars presents the human race with a Darwinian intelligence test, and so-far, we are failing it.  Scientists cannot connect the dots at Mars because the resulting picture is too terrifying to accept.”  Dr. John Brandenburg, 2014 and Bruce Cornet, M.S., Ph.D.

Idaho UFOs near Air Base

U.S. Air Force Air Traffic Control Certification and Federal Aviation Administration Certification

 Mountain Home Air Force Base — I was an air traffic controller at Mountain Home (AFB) from 1973 through 1976 and saw numerous UFO’s, but knew it was a waste to report them. I had no desire to go to the base hospital and enter into a conversation as to whether I loved my mother. In addition, casual conversation with pilots of the F-111 Tactical Fighter Bombers there indicated they too had witnessed the same, but didn’t want an official inquiry into their sanity.

Additional Comment from Witness: I have experienced a lot of skepticism in the past.

Note: The witness identified with a previously reported sighting of a UFO that was hovering over the runway at Mountain Home AFB in 1977. The veteran provided documentation that he was an air traffic controller for the Air Force at Mountain Home AFB. (Note that the date on the certificate is Sep 18, 1973. This provides good evidence that he was stationed at Mountain AFB i s a controller. The second document provides his FAA certification and shows that he was at Mountain Home AFB. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com

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Filer’s Files #15 -2017 Cydonia Earth-Mars Connection - PART II

Filer’s Files #15 -2017 Cydonia Earth-Mars Connection - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

California Object

Taking my ear buds out, around 12:30 am, on April 1st, I heard a helicopter. My window is open and this helicopter seemed loud and out of place for the night. I looked out my second story window and saw an orange yellow orb traveling from right to left, stop, ascend, and continue to maneuver throughout the night sky. The object seemed to react to the helicopter, avoiding is and reacting to the helicopters movements. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Lights

Pinellas Park — I was just simply taking a picture of a plane on April 1, 2017. It was passing over head and I noticed an object when I viewed the photo in the upper left with the plane at the lower right. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Boomerang

Brookfield — I was returning home at around 4:15 am, from getting some coffee. I got out of my car in my driveway, and saw a bright, pulsing, white light, in the sky on April 1, 2017. I went inside and got my infrared binoculars and filmed it. I couldn’t really see what it was until I went frame by frame. While reviewing the video, it shape shifted from a triangle, a sphere, a disc, and other shapes. Also, when looking at the video, for a few minutes, I saw another pulsating, white light, further south. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Indiana Lights

Vincennes — I was driving home southbound on U.S. 41 between Vincennes and Decker, as I started to pull onto Airport road I noticed a bright white light, low in the northwestern sky on April 7, 2017. At first I thought it was a star or planet, but realized I never noticed it before, so I pulled over to watch it for a few seconds. It appeared to be moving slowly in my direction, so I decided to head up the road to my house. I pulled into my driveway, and went inside the house to alert my mother about what I was seeing. I went back outside and my mother came outside as the object got steadily closer. As it got almost directly overhead I could see three white lights in a triangular shape, with a red blinking light towards the rear. I also noticed white lights around the middle of the object, appearing to be windows. I listened

As it was passing by, I did hear a slight jet like sound. It was flying between 200 and 300 miles per hour. This did not appear to be anything conventional. I have seen the F117 once, the B2 twice at my house, F16s, F18s, and F22s, so I have plenty of knowledge and experience with aircraft. Terre Haute is also home to the Indiana Air National Guard, The northwest to southeast flight path of this event was a bit odd. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Louisiana Object

Boyce — Walked out on deck to take picture of lake on April 1, 2017. Uploaded picture to Facebook and noticed a wooden cross in sky on picture Went back to take a look and it was gone. I see it in the picture and know it was there. I think while I was taking picture I remember seeing at a quick glance, some birds. I am not totally sure of this. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Michigan Light

Kalamazoo — While my son and I were getting the telescope ready on March n31, 2017, I felt the need to hurry up and get out there. When we walked outside there was a very large and bright “star” very close to our home. I grabbed the iPod and started to take pictures. It stayed for a few hours, I went back out at midnight and it was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Nevada Discs

Las Vegas — We stayed at the Red Rock Casino outside of Vegas on March 31st thru April 4, 2017. On the morning of April 1st at 7AM, I was getting ready to go golfing. Since I was up and ready to go before my family I looked out the window to admire the mountain views. I took three pictures with my cell phone. I did not see anything out of the ordinary. We were on the 16th floor of the hotel, facing the mountains. After returning home from our trip I checked out some of the pictures on my cell phone and noticed that one picture taken from my room had a round disc that looked as if it was moving fast. I went to the store and had pictures made. The object was unbelievable. I had a larger blow up made and could not believe that this was on the picture. After showing several friends the picture all of them immediately said what is that a UFO. The other two pictures did not show anything. Thanks to MUFON CMS

North Carolina Ball

Hoke County — I was on my way to work on March 22, 2017, driving down Shannon Road and I notice a large hovering ball of light. I grabbed my phone and took a picture. I went through some trees and on the other side there were two lights hovering together.

I tried to video them and I went thru more trees and on the other side there was only one light again. But I watched this light hovering all the way to work. Once there I was telling some of my coworker about the light and a couple of my coworker saw them also. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Ohio Photo of the Moon

Newbury — I was in my backyard, playing with my camera zoom and taking pictures of the crescent moon on April 1, 2017.

I went back inside and downloaded the photos and on the larger screen I noticed an object. I was using a Nikon coolpix B500 and it had 40x zoom, so I was all excited to see the craters so clearly in the photos. That’s when I noticed the object and I don’t know what it is. All the photos are not edited. Any thoughts? Thanks to MUFON CMS

Oklahoma Lights

I’m up usually every morning around sunrise and noticed objects that could be a planet stationary object on April 6, 2017.

The sun is coming up over the horizon and the object is still very bright. The object now is moving side to side very slowly.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Pennsylvania Sphere

Philadelphia — I was at the corner of Allegheny and Kensington waiting for the bus on April 3, 2017. It was approximately 8 am, a lovely morning and I was looking at the sky and saw a black object quite high. I was facing north/northwest. My first thought was that it was some debris floating on the air currents – but it was not just floating along – it was moving quite slowly from east to west. The object was dark black, shaped like a wide diamond – or a square object. It did not appear to reflect light but flashed about 4 times in the 10 minutes it. I asked a young woman, also waiting for the bus if she saw it – she said yes/ Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington Lights

Conway — Over four sightings of strange craft occurred within two weeks of this event. It was about 8:40 PM, at night on March 24, 2017. I had walked out of my room, and, due to the fact I had seen what appeared to be flying saucers in the sky for two weeks prior, I looked out and saw an extremely bright light hovering by a radio tower. Even before noticing its very odd movements, I recognized the light to be just like the previous craft I had seen. It was incredibly bright, like a star, but bigger. It also appeared to have a crescent shape to the light, as though part of it were darkened, exactly like the previous lights.

After noticing it, I watched carefully its position in the sky compared to the hillside. I am a trained aircraft observer, so I am certain it was no aircraft. I saw it begin to move in insect-like patterns, to my surprise, exactly like the last sightings. I had recently returned from flight training in California. My mother came upstairs to the window with me, and I had her watch while it darted hundreds of meters in random directions. I believe seeing this made her uncomfortable, I watched as the light suddenly disappeared, then reappeared much closer to my house. I grabbed binoculars, and to my shock, it was a saucer, like the other ones. I ran and got my mother, so she could join in the craziness. I flashed my phone lights at it, like I had previously done. It seemed to flash back the same pattern. Its response was unnecessarily bright. Being an airman, seeing that while flying would have been highly distracting, and no aircraft I know of would have any reason to flash lights so bright.
After this, there appeared a second light, brighter than the first. It moved around, and then stayed in place for the remainder of the event. While it was moving, the first light appeared to eject several smaller lights out of it. Upon exiting the craft, the smaller lights were either too dim to see or they simply disappeared.
Shortly after, the first saucer moved below the tree line, and slowly continued south. Upon doing so, three equally bright saucer shaped craft appeared by the radio tower. They began to move in a steady path to the area where the other two lights were. Both my mother and my sister were now watching.

The light furthest to the north was very big. It was moving slower than a helicopter, and had flashing lights brighter than the moon. It was like a diamond. If I had been flying close to that light, I would have been blinded. This strange object continued to the south, and disappeared behind some tall trees. There were 3 remaining lights above the horizon for a while, and they vanished one by one.

My final observations were recorded at 11:45 pm., when I went to sleep with a flying saucer hovering less than a mile away from me. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Wyoming Lights

Driving along interstate SB on February 6, 2016, I noticed military style dump trucks in my rearview mirror. They were going fast about 90+mph. They passed me.

I saw this craft on a flatbed. I took a chance and sped up enough to pass them, pulled my car over, jumped out and videotaped it.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia Object

Melbourne — My Daughter took this footage whilst stuck in traffic due to an accident on the Western Freeway near the Werribee exit on March 24, 2017. She took the video on her iPhone because she was bored and decided to snap chat her predicament.
She didn’t notice the object on the video until she got home and subsequently showed me and sent me the video to my iPhone.
On closer inspection using zoom and slow motion the object appears to hover and move extremely fast shuddering up and down. Two other objects appear to dart around the prominent object extremely fast and look to morph in and out of the object. She was stuck on the freeway for around 20 minutes but not sure how long the objects would have been there. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Brazil Aircraft and UFO

Brasilia DC — Object was photographed from a hotel room in the city on December 31, 2015. The object is at the bottom right of the photograph. I only noticed the object after unloading the memory card on the PC two days later.
Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Sightings

Oshawa – Paul Shishis thanks so very much posting my two close sightings time wise March 23, 2017.  I find this very interesting after the fact of these unknown UFO sightings. We later experienced a power outage here at home in Oshawa, Ontario. Just after 2:00 am, Friday morning March 24, 2017 confirmed by my wife. My is residence at 812 Donegal Ave , Oshawa I woke up after 6:00 am to no power along with 2000 other residents in Oshawa

Shower in the dark and got ready for work in Scarborough Realized I could not open the garage door feeling upset. In a hurry to get to work decided to take my wife’s car just as the lights outside my house suddenly came on. The timing is so uncanny!!So ran inside the house opened the garage door – pulled my car out and drove to work! Now I’m happy again in my car  I wonder if the power outage be connected to the earlier UFO sighting in Scarborough?

As mentioned their presence can cause power outages that I have noted from previous sightings

This again could be another example between UFO presence connected to power outages in selected areas

There was local news coverage stating they did not know what caused the outage???

Maybe we know  http://www.durhamradionews.com/archives/101575

 

Agassiz – I was just about to get into my hot tub but I happened to look skyward south east and I noticed five bright objects descending on March 21, 2017. I didn’t know what they were at first, but eventually looked like four flares floating down towards the ground and they eventually dissipated, I posted the video on Facebook contacted the Agassiz Harrison observer and left an email, They didn’t get back to me for like a month saying they must’ve overlooked it. I posted several videos of it on various sites and have really gotten much attention, I personally think they were flares at that time, but why would anyone be setting flares, I’m sure other people must’ve seen it. They were very bright in the beginning but diminished. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Kenya Triangle

Nairobi –This object was photographed during the Westgate Mall terror attack/shooting on September 21, 2013. There is a video by the press on Youtube  Thanks to MUFON CMS

Netherlands Light

On 31 December 2013/2014, my woman and two kids were planning to join a family party nearby our home. I first drove my car to my brother-in-law’s house, and then we walk with my cousins and sister-in-law to our uncle’s home.
But then around 9 PM, we decided to go home, and I saw something fly directly over the street into my direction and took pictures.
It looked like an airplane with different lights, but did not make any sound and was flying too slow for an airplane. Then the others came outside and also saw it fly over. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Sweden Orange Objects

Several fire golden objects were following me from home to the bus station on March 6, 2017.

They look different in the picture than I saw in reality…

Thanks to MUFON CMS

 UK/England Sphere

Herts — I went outside for a smoke and wanted to show my mother contrails as I looked up I saw this object on January 1, 2017. As it got closer I noticed it was not a plane or anything I have seen before.

I grabbed my phone and recorded the best video I could when it was around 500 meters away and dusk.

The object was silent. I was a bit shocked when I saw this but happy I got the video. Within two minutes it was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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The Most Amazing Space Stories of the Week!

The Most Amazing Space Stories of the Week!

The Most Amazing Space Stories of the Week!
Two of the raised treads on the left middle wheel of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars suffered breaks in early 2017. One of the breaks is visible as a partially detached section at the top of the wheel, seen here by Curiosity's arm-mounted Mars Hand Lens Imager.
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A Dragon returns, North Korea tests a rocket engine, a wheel breaks on Mars and a spacewalk streak begins — it's Space.com's top news stories of the week.

Transition begins

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill authorizing a $19.5 billion budget for NASA in 2017, setting its priorities for the year. Vice President Mike Pence also announced that he would head a re-established National Space Council, which will advise the president on space issues. [Full Story: President Trump Signs NASA Authorization Bill]

Dragon came back

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, bringing more than 2 tons of science experiments and gear back from the International Space Station. Officials retrieved the spacecraft and had time-sensitive scientific samples in the lab within 48 hours. [Full Story: SpaceX Dragon Capsule Returns to Earth with Ocean Splashdown]

Uncertainty engine

North Korea announced that they had performed a ground test of a powerful rocket engine suited to lifting satellites — or missiles — off the ground. [Full Story: North Korea Tests Rocket Engine: Is It for Satellites or Ballistic Missiles?]

Wear and tear

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has two small breaks in the treads of one of its six heavy wheels. Curiosity has already lasted well beyond its original two-year mission lifetime, and it should be able to continue unhindered by this latest wear and tear. [Full Story: Breaks Found in Curiosity Mars Rover's Wheel]

(Tiny) thrusters, on!

New, dime-size ion thrusters could keep constellations of small satellites in orbit — or, working together, propel astronauts to Mars. The newly-developed "thruster chips" eject ions drawn from a salt-based propellant solution. [Full Story: Dime-Size Thrusters Could Propel Satellites, Spacecraft]

No laughing matter

The mysterious dark matter seems to make up a large percentage of the matter in the universe, but — perplexingly — early galaxies seem to not have very much of it. [Full Story: Lack of 'Dark Matter' in Early Galaxies Perplexes Astronomers]

Colorful cocoon

Three observant satellites, called Swarm, have mapped the complex magnetic field of Earth's crust and outer mantle, known as its lithosphere. The signal is tiny, but illuminating about the Earth's history. (And one city in Africa has a mysteriously sharp and strong magnetic spike.) [Full Story: Earth's Magnetic Cocoon Mapped in Extreme Detail]

Maybe no flow

Mars' famous dark streaks, thought to be caused by briny flows of water, may come from bone-dry landslides instead, new work suggests. [Full Story: Mars' Dark Streaks May Be Caused by Dry Landslides, Not Water]

But then again: Massive Martian Slopes May Harbor Ice

Going way back

A radio telescope that could probe the dawn of the universe's first stars and galaxies received a new grant, boosting its potential size from 240 huge antenna dishes to 350 — letting it look even further back in time. [Full Story: Telescope Eyeing Universe's First Stars Gets (Another) Big Boost]

Out there

Two astronauts completed a spacewalk Friday (March 24) to help prepare the International Space Station for future commercial spacecraft to dock and bring crew. It is the first of three spacewalks in a row, the third of which will be the station's 200th spacewalk. [Full Story: Space Station Astronauts Poised to Tackle Three-Spacewalk Streak]

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Aliens are HERE on Earth and will TAKE OVER, Stanton Friedman a Nuclear Physicist, UFO Researcher

Aliens are HERE on Earth and will TAKE OVER, Stanton Friedman a Nuclear Physicist, UFO Researcher

Published on Apr 3, 2017

Close Encounters UFO Providing News about UFO, Space, Technology, Science and Conspiracies theories from around the world. Watch Daily Updates and News from Around the Web! Email us YOUR footage and help us Continue the work with the Channel. Disclosure coming soon!

➨E-mail us with your ideas & footage: closeencountersufo@gmail.com

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YouTube Mothership Productions, Stanton argues that although many high profile scientist have a lot to say about UFOs and ETs, they have not looked and the evidence, and their statements are often not scientific.

Stanton Friedman Discusses Stephen Hawking & SETI:

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Weird Norfolk: The Norwich UFO documented by the CIA

Weird Norfolk: The Norwich UFO documented by the CIA

The UFO as described by Frank Potter.  Picture: EDP Library/ANTONY KELLY

The UFO as described by Frank Potter.

Picture: EDP Library/ANTONY KELLY

It was a dazzling light show that bewitched astronomers watching the night sky above Norwich - but was it proof of life on other planets?


Just months after Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953, the Eastern Evening News front page carried a story about a visit from an Unidentified Flying Object which might have travelled to Earth through its own corona.

On October 8, the EEN reported that Frank Potter had spotted something unusual in the sky over his home on South Park Avenue in Norwich.

The amateur astronomer told reporters that he’d seen a noiseless object two days earlier at 7.15pm, travelling from south-west to north-east.

Training his telescope on the craft, he followed the saucer-shaped object as it sped across the sky, noting: “rays or beams of light could be seen distinctly from the dome and attached directly beneath it was a much larger and flattened dome with a protruding band running in a circumference around its edge.

“The underneath of the large flattened bottom dome was hollow and appeared to be glowing red, but there were no vapour trails or gases to be seen.”

The article prompted several other star-gazers to come forward to say they too had spotted something to suggest that we are not alone.

Mr Potter also revealed that a further seven members of the Norwich Astronomical Society, to which he belonged, had also seen the saucer.

Leonard G Cramp, vice-president of the British UFO Research Association, included the Norwich sighting in his 1954 book Space, Gravity and The Flying Saucer, a highly technical examination of the technology necessary to build a flying saucer.

Excerpts from Cramp’s book - including Mr Potter’s testimony - can be found online in the Central Intelligence Agency’s declassified documents library.

The truth is out there...somewhere above South Park Avenue.

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UFOs sighted in Nova Scotia: report

UFOs sighted in Nova Scotia: report

THE CHRONICLE HERALD 
A star-filled night sky is seen at Kejimkujik National Park. (PARKS CANADA)
A star-filled night sky is seen at Kejimkujik National Park. (PARKS CANADA)

There were 17 UFO sightings in Nova Scotia last year, according to annual data from UFOlogy Research of Manitoba.

The organization released the 2016 Canadian UFO Survey, an annual list of all the reported sightings across the country for the previous year, on March 29.

In 2016, 1,131 UFO reports were officially filed in Canada, the fifth year in a row more than 1,000 cases were reported.

Since the annual Canadian UFO Survey was initiated in 1989, Canadians have reported 18,038 sightings. More than 2,100 of these reports are categorized as “Unexplained.”

The 17 reported Nova Scotia sightings are as follows:

Feb. 2: East Bay – four white triangular objects slowly flying in strange patterns in the sky

March 1: Terence Bay – possible plane crash, explosion, with a “plane” descending before breaking in half and catching on fire.

March 26: Bear River – a beam of blue-white light straight down to the ground, no visible craft.

April 27: Canning – orange light flying erratically in the sky before descending and disappearing.

July 31: Cheticamp – two objects flying through sky. Car starter stopped working.

Aug. 1: New Waterford – large ball of pulsating light moving at different speeds and turning slightly.

Aug. 8: Porters Lake – bright light moving across the sky.

Sept. 12: Upper Tantallon – large reflective triangular object hovering before receding fast and vanishing.

Sept. 26: Donkin – unknown object seen in photo. Possibly water drop. Military plane seen in area a day later.

Oct. 10: Nova Scotia (exact location not specified) – star-like object stationary for 10 minutes then darting across the sky.

Oct. 11: Port Greville — three orange fireballs and a "spider-like" object moving across the sky.

Oct. 21: Glace Bay – star-like objects in “reverse P” formation; “black satin rippling.”

Oct. 27: Halifax – large white light falling from the sky.

Nov. 10: Sherbrooke – orange light fading between yellow and orange while moving in the sky.

Nov. 12: Truro – oval-shaped light with yellow light around it, slowly moving before a bright flash of light and it was gone.

Dec. 9: Truro – low-flying object like shooting star.

Dec. 21: Halifax – bright light like flash moved east to west quickly, slower than shooting star.

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Evidence Found That Nuclear Bomb Detonated 12,000 Years Ago, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Evidence Found That Nuclear Bomb Detonated 12,000 Years Ago, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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There is loads of evidence that civilisations exited on earth, long before humans. But here is some evidence that shows that an nuclear explosion occurred 12,000 years ago, and that weapons of mass destruction may just be a mistake that we are doomed to repeat. 
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News states:

Hindu texts dating from thousands of years ago seem to suggest that some kind of highly advanced weapon resembling an atomic bomb was set off on the Earth some twelve thousand of years ago. The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are Sanskrit epics thought to have been written in the 8th or 9th century BC and are accounts of the Kurukshetra War and the battle between Rama and the demon Ravana respectively. COULD AN ATOMIC BOMB HAVE GONE OFF ON EARTH 12000 YEARS AGO? 

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New Zealand family confused by 'UFOs' frequently seen around house, April 4, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

New Zealand family confused by 'UFOs' frequently seen around house, April 4, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Above the photo is enhanced with light only. Below is normal. 
 
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Date of sighting: April 4, 2017
Location of sighting: Auckland, New Zealand
News Source:  
 
Alien entities can move about unseen due to their cloaking technology, however there is no escaping an infrared cameras eye. Infrared is an area of the spectrum that human eyes cannot see. Cameras allow us to capture alien entries and UFOs that may be cloaked. Instances of UFOs and aliens being caught on security cameras have increased 5 fold in the last two years alone and its only going to increase with more and more security cameras going up ever day around the world. 
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News states: 
An Auckland couple says unidentified flying objects are hanging around their property - and they have video they say proves it.
 
Lance and Patricia Rasmussen claim to have seen the mysterious, shapeshifting coloured orbs around their Manukau Heads home most nights for about a year.
 
They say they're at a loss to explain what it is, but don't believe they are drones or planes because they appear metres from their house.
 
The couple, in their 50s, has also contacted the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to ask what they thought it might be.
 
A CAA spokesman confirmed the conversation took place, but was not officially recorded.
 
"If someone wants to 'make it official' then we ask them to email us with details - in the case of UFOs we would usually tell them that if there was something untoward then we'd expect Airways or pilots to have something to say.
 
"In the absence of any such reports we won't be investigating it - although we are happy to record it," the spokesman says.
 
The representative who spoke to the couple suggested it could be drones or an approaching aircraft, but "the caller was adamant those could not be the cause".
 
Ms Rasmussen has taken hundreds of photos of the objects which stay around their isolated Awhitu property, where they've lived for 12 years, "all night long".
 
She says they normally hover just metres above their roof and make no noise.
 
The photos sent to Newshub show indistinct lights against a pitch black background, but one of the house's six security cameras did capture movement on Thursday night.
 
Mr Rasmussen described the objects as spheres "three times the size of a CD, like a big record-type thing" and said some would be less than four metres away from him when they hovered in the garden.
 
"They fly and they change shape and they can stay up for more than two or three hours and can change shape and colours right in front of your eyes.
 
"I don't know if they mean any harm or anything like that, but it's pretty out there, y'know?"
 
The first time they saw the objects, the couple were both afraid.
 
He says that first sighting coincided with Ms Rasmussen ending up in hospital after developing a severe skin condition on her foot.
 
Mr Rasmussen says the couple just want an explanation of what they've been seeing from someone.
 
"We really would like to know what's going on ourselves.
 
"If they are people from somewhere else, best they go and pick on someone else," he laughed.
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SHOCKING UFO sighting over Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada 26-Mar-2017

SHOCKING UFO sighting over Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada 26-Mar-2017

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Steven Barone is becoming one of the most advanced UFO hunters on Youtube. He lives near Nellis Air Force Base, located near Los Angeles in Nevada. This amazing peace of footage was filmed on 26th March 2017.

Witness report: 

We shot this video from the Apex area near Nellis Air Force Base outside of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of March 26, 2017.
I put together a group UFO hunt on Sunday night. We initially went to a spot out of town out in the desert where we thought we would have a good view of the Air Force Base. There were seven of us to start but after about and hour another car showed up and parked. They got out of the car and fired a shot the opposite direction. Earlier there had been several vehicles to the west of us that had been shooting but they finally left. We weren’t seeing anything and having people wanting to shoot guns around us was uncomfortable so we moved to the last spot I had been when my car went bonkers with locking itself and flashing its lights. Bill and Susan went home but Luis, Jonathan, Heather, Donald and I went to the other location and tried again. We waited a bit and then I noticed numerous lights swirling around in the sky near Red Rock Canyon on my side of town. We were there to try and film lights at Nellis but ironically they appeared about thirty miles away much closer to where I live. It was incredible because I counted at least eleven UFOs. Even through the night vision camera, I could see one that was red and another looked yellow. I had zoomed in but I noticed at the very beginning that there were two more red UFOs up higher and out of the picture. There may have been more than a dozen. We all took turns looking through the night vision camera. I had my camcorder but realized that it was missing the SD Card. I had left it plugged into the SD Card Reader on my computer. At times we could see them visually without even using the binoculars. Soon after we started filming three police cars came and parked about two hundred yards away from us with lights flashing. Soon after a police helicopter arrived and began circling, shining a spotlight down on something. We had no idea what they were looking for. The helicopter finally left but the police cars were still there when we left even though we had been filming for more than one hour. Both Donald and I had the same idea to move to the area where we ended up and I am really happy we did. This video is off the hook.

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The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

 

Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.

The Klosneuvirus was discovered here, at this wastewater treatment plant in Klosterneuburg, Austria.
The Klosneuvirus was discovered here, at this wastewater treatment plant in Klosterneuburg, Austria.
Credit: Marton Palatinszky

New giant viruses found at an Austrian wastewater treatment plant probably evolved from a smaller virus that picked up bits of genome from its hosts and incorporated it, Frankenstein-like, into its own genetic code.

The discovery of the new viruses was accidental — but enlightening. The research team was combing through genetic sequences from a wastewater treatment plant in the town of Klosterneuburg, Austria, trying to understand bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrate during the treatment process. [Read more about the monster virus.]

Prehistoric humans were known to feast on horses and reindeer, but occasionally, these early humans would also chow down on each other. Scientists have uncovered grisly evidence of this ancient cannibalism in butchered bones of children and adults found in caves across Europe.

Now, a new study suggests that it is unlikely ancient hominins cannibalized each other as an easy alternative to going out and hunting. [Read more about the their diet.]

One of the most impressive finds was a mosaic floor, dating back second half of the 1st century B.C., discovered in the ruins of what's thought to be a Roman public building.
One of the most impressive finds was a mosaic floor, dating back second half of the 1st century B.C., discovered in the ruins of what's thought to be a Roman public building.
Credit: Bertrand Houix, INRAP

Hidden for centuries, mosaic floors from the lost Roman city of Ucetia have been uncovered in France.

The French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) announced that the dig has so far been very fruitful. Some of the walls and structures that were uncovered date to just before the Roman conquest of present-day France (called Gaul at the time). But the most visually stunning finds are the well-preserved Roman-era mosaic floors with richly colored patterns and figures. [Read more about the elaborate mosaics.]

Nearly 1 billion people around the world light up cigarettes every day, a new study finds.

In other words, because there are more people on Earth, there are more smokers. But compared to the overall population, the percentage of people who smoke is lower than it was 25 years ago. [Read more about the findings.]

Vantablack is now available in a spray-on form that blocks 99.8 percent of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light — enough to make an otherwise detailed 3D object appear as a flat black void.
Vantablack is now available in a spray-on form that blocks 99.8 percent of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light — enough to make an otherwise detailed 3D object appear as a flat black void.
Credit: Surrey NanoSystems

Though it may look like a 2D cartoon wormhole, "Vantablack" is the blackest material known to science.

Now, a variation of Vantablack (known as Vantablack S-VIS) is available in a spray-on form that blocks 99.8 percent of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light — enough to make an otherwise detailed 3D object appear as a flat black void. [Read more about the darkest known material.]

In the deep ocean, a hungry squid can suddenly become a meal for a larger squid, seen here in a still from a video posted by CSIRO on YouTube.
In the deep ocean, a hungry squid can suddenly become a meal for a larger squid, seen here in a still from a video posted by CSIRO on YouTube.
Credit: CSIRO

A marine expedition exploring life in the deep sea near Australia recently captured footage of an incredible scene: a squid's sneak attack on a smaller squid.

The life-and-death struggle was visible for only a few dramatic seconds before the wrestling squids wriggled out of sight. [Read more about the attack.]

The germanium detector array is being lowered into the liquid argon. The physicists wanted to see if this germanium-76 ever decays without releasing the neutrinos — neutrinoless double-beta decay.
The germanium detector array is being lowered into the liquid argon. The physicists wanted to see if this germanium-76 ever decays without releasing the neutrinos — neutrinoless double-beta decay.
Credit: M. Heisel/GERDA collaboration

A never-before-seen type of radioactivity could explain why matter, including humans, exists today. And now a team of physicists has launched an experiment to find the oddball phenomenon.

One way to explain this matter-antimatter asymmetry is to look for some difference between the two, besides charge, that could explain matter's advantage. It's a big question in contemporary physics, because otherwise matter and antimatter should, per contemporary theories, behave the same way. [Read more about the radioactivity.]

The so-called Daedalus suit is a jet engine-powered exosuit developed by amateur inventor Richard Browning.
The so-called Daedalus suit is a jet engine-powered exosuit developed by amateur inventor Richard Browning.
Credit: Gravity

Residents of the quiet town of Salisbury, in the south of England, had no clue until last week that their neighbor, a 38-year-old oil trader named Richard Browning, is a real-life Iron Man in the making.

Despite the noisiness of the technology, which consists of three sets of miniature jet engines attached to the arms and the back, Browning managed to keep the work completely under wraps. [Read more about the real-life superhero.]

Here, knife-marks can been seen on the surfaces of two rib fragments. Cut-marks and chop-marks are the bones suggest the bodies had been mutilated after death.
Here, knife-marks can been seen on the surfaces of two rib fragments. Cut-marks and chop-marks are the bones suggest the bodies had been mutilated after death.
Credit: Historic England

Zombies are hardly a modern preoccupation. For centuries, people have been worried about corpses rising from their graves to torment the living.

Now, archaeologists in England think they've found evidence of medieval methods to prevent the dead from walking. [Read more about the ancient practices.]

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Being overweight or obese at some point in adulthood may increase the risk of early death, a new study finds.

The new finding is "important from a public health perspective, given that about one-third of adults in the U.S. and more than a quarter of the world's population is overweight," study author Edward Yu, a graduate student at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health in Boston, said in a statement. [Read more about the obesity paradox.]

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Passengers STUNNED as huge UFO ‘flying saucer’ soars past plane in remarkable video

Passengers STUNNED as huge UFO ‘flying saucer’ soars past plane in remarkable video

AN ‘ALIEN spacecraft’ was filmed hurtling below a plane as shocked passengers watched on.

By Simon Green 

The baffling clip – filmed over Spain – begins with the mysterious object coming into shot directly below the aircraft.

It appears to be diamond-shaped as it travels through the skies.

“What the f***?” the stunned cameraman says, before zooming in further.

The craft looks completely flat but almost as soon as it comes into view, it disappears into the distance.

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BOMBSHELL: A huge UFO was spotted hurtling past a passenger plane

Astronaut Brian O’Leary makes SHOCKING claim about UFOs

More than 35,000 people have viewed the startling video since it was posted to YouTube on Wednesday (April 5).

“I’ve witnessed a UFO from my airplane window seat before so I DO believe this…trust me it’s real,” one user commented.

Another wrote: “Amazing! It seems to be moving slow at first then speeds up.”

Some users dismissed the video, claiming it had been edited.

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MYSTERY: Viewers had mixed responses to the footage

But one viewer suggested: “The tricky part of adding an image from a camera phone is the perspective and speed…this passed the test of enlargement.”

Others believed the craft was in fact a weather balloon.

A startlingly similar craft was filmed recently hurtling over rush hour traffic in Mexico.

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Annual Report On UFO Sightings Released

Annual Report On UFO Sightings Released

UFO over Canada


Winnipeg-based Ufology Research recently published their 2016 Canadian UFO Survey, which features light-fingered alien, airplane near-misses, and bright lights. There were 1,131 reported UFO sightings in total across Canada. Only four percent of the total sightings could not be explained. The percentage is a record low in 28 years the study has been carried out. Chris Rutkowski, the study author, explained that low rating is likely the result of more scrutiny of UFO sighting claims.

UFO sighting reports are usually on the rise during summer, but turn out to be simple lights in the sky.

Among the provinces, Quebec led the country with 38.5 percent of the sightings. The province also has the largest populations. Ontario placed second with 26 percent and followed by British Columbia with 17 percent.

A simple point source of light comprises most shapes of reported UFOs with 57 percent. Other forms indicated were balls (9%), fireballs (5%), triangles(4%), and cigars (3%).

The report includes cases of the massive, disc-shaped object with searchlights flying over the mountains in North Vancouver. It mentions the boomerang-shaped spotted moving across the sky near St. Thomas in Ontario.

There is also a reference to a reported near miss of the commercial plane over Toronto with an unidentified flying object while on a routine flight on November 14.

Close encounter cases are not that high when compared to UFO sightings, but high on the strangeness scale.

A man in Cornwall, P.E.I saw a thin, six-foot-tall, long-fingered white being in a black suit, which spoke to him in his bedroom before leaving by walking through a wall.

Those close encounter cases also include a man in Lanaudiere, Quebec who claimed he was transported into a field of plants and plunged into a bathtub where three green, big-eyed humanoid creatures surrounded him and communicated with him telepathically.

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Three Dark Disk UFOs Seen From Passenger Jet Over Philadelphia On April 7, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

Three Dark Disk UFOs Seen From Passenger Jet Over Philadelphia On April 7, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: April 7, 2017
Location of sighting: Philadelphia, PA, USA
News source: MUFON #83041
 
Now this is odd. I can distinctly see many shadows from the clouds on the ground, however, I cannot see any shadow on the ground from the UFOs. Why? Perhaps alien technology cannot cast a shadow...an excellent way to prevent people from noticing you when they are walking on the ground looking down...no shadow appears and they never bother looking up. 
 
From the lack of shadows on the ground and the thinness and the darkness of these objects, I can confirm that they are alien craft. It appears to be about half a mile across. And thats still considered small compared to other alien craft from other official reports. For example, two planes confirmed sighting three yellow disks that were over the ocean near Guernsey Island back in 2007 and all the UFOs were over a mile across. (Click here to see that video).
Scott C. Waring
 
Eyewitness states:
We were on a Frontier Airplane coming from Philadelphia, PA and preparing to land in Charlotte, NC close to noon on 4/7/2017. Our 7 year old son was sitting by the window. He told us to look out the window because he sees a spaceship in the sky. We took 3 pictures of the object in the sky. One of the pics shows 2 objects. If you zoom in on the pics, it does look like it could be something. Our son seemed so sure that it was a spaceship.
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Mysterious alien-like green flashes spotted on NASA cameras BAFFLES viewers

Mysterious alien-like green flashes spotted on NASA cameras BAFFLES viewers

ALIEN hunters have been left stunned by strange green lights filmed by NASA cameras streaking across space.

By Simon Green

The mysterious video – posted by so-called truth-seeker Streetcap1 – shows the black sky over the Earth.

Suddenly a bright light bursts into view for less than a second.

The sheer speed of it makes it impossible to see what has caused the sight.

But once you take a screenshot – it becomes slightly clearer.

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BAFFLED: Strange alien-like green lights were filmed streaking across the sky

A huge green object comes into view, with Streetcap1 commenting: “I have absolutely no idea what that is at all.

“You can see a grey thing at the back so what I did was brighten that up.”

He then zoomed in on a bright white light that also streaked through the darkness.

“It’s not like a meteor but a fast flash in a line in one spot,” a person who witnessed the anomaly said.

A bright flash

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MYSTERY: Viewers had differing views on what caused the flashes

“It doesn’t seem to go across the sky or anything.”

But another viewer disagreed, suggesting: “Could it be micro meteors hitting the uppermost atmosphere?”

It comes just days after the conspiracist spotted “alien UFOs” interacting with each other in remarkable footage from the International Space Station.

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UFO flying saucer SPOTTED hurtling over traffic at rush hour in shock clip

UFO flying saucer SPOTTED hurtling over traffic at rush hour in shock clip

AN “ALIEN flying saucer” was captured on video flying over a busy street in broad daylight – sending UFO hunters into a frenzy.

By Henry Holloway 

Footage shows the black disc-shaped object moving through the sky above Morelia in Mexico.

The black UFO flies into view and lingers in the sky while it is tracked by the cameraman Carlos Arriola.

It remains in shot until Mr Arriola has to pull away in his car as the traffic starts moving again.

The shock video comes as a British astronomer claimed aliens could be “robots” that have overthrown their creators.

UFO sighting in Morelia

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UFO: The alien craft was spotted 'flying over Mexico' in a video shot in Morelia

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“It is rare to see such a close up of a real UFO.”

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The 40-second clip has sent prolific online alien experts into the meltdown.

UFO hunters across the web are hailing the short snap as “100% real” and showing an alien spaceship.

On the YouTube post, Mr Arriola writes: “Due to the traffic I could not make a longer recording.”

Some UFO hunters claim aliens are here and want to “quarantine” humanity.

UFO flying over Mexico

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ALIENS: UFO hunters online hailed the clip as '100% real'

Former NASA employee says he saw alien and NASA employees meet

Self-proclaimed UFO expert Scott C. Waring wrote on UFOSightingsDaily: “It moves gracefully and silently over a city.

“It is rare to see such a close up of a real UFO.

“Savour the moment guys. It is 100% real.”

Are alien civilisations living in enormous caves on the moon


Alien hunters SecureTeam10 also hosted the video and dismissed theories the object was being carried by a helicopter or a drone.

The existence of life on other planets – let alone space-faring races – has never been proven.

But NASA and space boffins continue their search – revealing a breakthrough in the hunt for alien life outside our Solar System last week.

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Tiny White UFOs Seen On News Cast During Lightening Storm In Florida, April 6, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

Tiny White UFOs Seen On News Cast During Lightening Storm In Florida, April 6, 2017, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: April 6, 2017
Location of sighting: Florida beach, USA
Source: MUFON #83010

White UFOs have been reported all around the world during lightening storms. They are thought to recharge from the storms...feed off of it if you will, and this makes them very excited and shoot all over and ever do loops. Once over Nortre Dame Stadium CNN recorded such an occurrence. It was the first time my site was on CNN and hundreds of these white lights were seen flying around but at incredible speed...like the speed of a arrow. Very remarkable and unbelievable if you have never before witnessed such and event. I also think that these tiny UFOs are alive...and even cause some lightening storms to happen.

Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

Watching NBC Nightly News last night, Apr 6, starting at 5:30p MST. During the coverage of the storms in the southeast, film footage was showing lightning strikes over water. I noticed for just a couple of seconds an object flying really fast under the cloud cover from the right side of the screen towards the left. This morning I replayed the segment footage from their website and am including the screen shots from the seconds before, during and after the object was in sight. The object moved quite a distance in one second. I was limited to the amount of pictures I could upload. I have another screen shot of the1:15 second mark, just before the last photo. I'm hoping someone with the right equipment will enhance.

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Black Disk Seen Over City In Mexico While Moving Slowly Over Road, March 27, 2017, Video UFO Sighting News.

Black Disk Seen Over City In Mexico While Moving Slowly Over Road, March 27, 2017, Video UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: March 27, 2017
Location of sighting: Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
News source:
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This is a dark disk moving slowly over a busy road in Morelia, Mexico. The person recording the UFO did an outstanding job since they were also driving the car. In the video, we get to see its smooth movement and its disk edge. It moves gracefully and silently over the city. Its rare to see such a close up of a real UFO. Savour the moment guys. Its 100% real.
Scott C. Waring

News states:
Morelia, Michoacán (MiMorelia.com/Redacción) .- In recent days was captured an unidentified flying object (UFO) in broad daylight, north of the city of Morelia. According to the user who captured the images, it was on March 27th when this strange black object was observed and circular. "Transiting through the release at the height of the Technological of Morelia appeared this UFO which due to the traffic I could not make a longer recording," explains in his video the video Carlos Arriola. The video has even been taken by a website dedicated to studying paranormal phenomena and of this type. The last word you have it yourself ...

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First Nations among those reporting mysterious lights in the sky in 2016: UFO survey

First Nations among those reporting mysterious lights in the sky in 2016: UFO survey

'Large yellow pyramid' and 'bright light moving very fast' among UFO sightings by First Nations in 2016

By Tim Fontaine, CBC News

Seven UFOs were reported in First Nations communities in 2016, according to an annual survey.

Seven UFOs were reported in First Nations communities in 2016, according to an annual survey. (Mike Blake/Reuters)

Seven First Nations reported unidentified flying objects in 2016, according to an annual survey by Winnipeg-based Ufology Research.

Three of those sightings were on Walpole Island — located over 250 kilometres southwest of Toronto — according to the 2016 Canadian UFO Survey, which lists 1,131 reports from across the country.

The incidents in Walpole Island include someone reporting a "bright light remaining in one area but moving up and down slightly" on the evening of Jan. 3, 2016.

On Jan. 4, 2016 someone in Kahnawake reported seeing a "large yellow pyramid hovering in the sky" over the Mohawk community, located near Montreal.

Bright lights, flying objects

Most of the 2016 sightings reported by First Nations were in Ontario and Quebec, including one on the Sagamok First Nation on May 27, when someone there spotted a "bright light moving very fast before disappearing."

Someone in Wikwemikong, located on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, reported seeing an "object flying past the moon with no sound in a straight line" on July 19.

But there was also a sighting in La Ronge, a northern Saskatchewan town where most of the residents are Cree or Métis. According to the document, someone reported witnessing "seven lights moving in the sky" on Nov. 10.

A nd a report from Iqaluit said someone saw "many star-like lights flying together" on Sept. 16.

The Canadian UFO Survey has been compiled annually since 1989 by Ufology Research of Manitoba. The group said 18,038 sightings across Canada have been catalogued since the survey began.

The truth is out there …

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British Cleaner Videotapes UFOs In Low Altitude Over Gosport

British Cleaner Videotapes UFOs In Low Altitude Over Gosport

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A witness reported to MUFON about his sighting in Gosport, Great Britain involving three lights that at times formed a triangle flying low in the sky. These lights also made random movements before all vanishing without a trace, according to the witness testimony filed as case 81450 in Mutual UFO Network witness reporting database.

On January 9, 2017, the witness stepped outside to dispose rubbish bags in his work as a cleaner at 10:50 pm.

He then noticed three green lights in the northwest of his position, at around 30-degree angle. The witness admitted that he could not estimate the distance and height from his position. Curious about the possible environment where the mysterious lights were spotted, he looked it up on Google maps and found out that they were mostly fields in that direction. He also provided the postcode where he observed the lights, which was PO13 0HR.

The witness described the lights as evenly spaced at times in a large triangle formation when he first noticed them. They all then turned purple and began moving. The video he submitted shows how the three lights move.

The witness revealed that he had his phone camera in a full zoom. The quality of the video is not that good, but the lights can be seen in bright purple color moving in a random manner, side-to-side, up and down very fast and turning very sharply. They swap sides and pass each other, sometimes form a triangle formation again for a few seconds before they move again.

The witness lost sight of the lights as they moved down below the houses several times until they did not reappear above the houses. The witness decided to position himself to the second level to see those lights from a higher angle. He saw one light again above the house but disappeared quickly downwards. They all never went up again after that, the witness stated.

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'Water world' found just 39 light years away represents leap forward in search for aliens, scientists say

'Water world' found just 39 light years away represents leap forward in search for aliens, scientists say

The discovery marks the first time that an atmosphere has been found around another Earth-like planet

Andrew Griffin

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Scientists have found a planet that looks like Earth – and, for the first time, has its own hazy atmosphere.

The discovery represents a major leap forward in the hunt for a planet like our own that could support alien life.

The planet, which is 39 lightyears from us, has a hazy atmosphere that could have a "water world" beneath it, scientists say.

While the planet isn't likely to be habitable, it suggests that there might be more planets out there with the kind of atmosphere that could support life. Until now, scientists have only been able to see giant "hot Jupiter" planets that are too warm to house aliens.

The "super-Earth" planet known as GJ 1132b was observed as it passed in front of a cool red dwarf star, blocking out some of the star's light.

By measuring the slight drop in the star's brightness, astronomers were able to work out that the planet was 1.4 times the size of Earth.

They also found that in one light wavelength band, the planet looked slightly bigger. This could be explained by an atmosphere that was opaque to some light wavelengths, but transparent to others.

Dr John Southworth, from the University of Keele, who led the team, said: "While this is not the detection of life on another planet, it's an important step in the right direction.

"The detection of an atmosphere around the super-Earth GJ 1132b marks the first time that an atmosphere has been detected around an Earth-like planet other than Earth itself.

"With this research, we have taken the first tentative step into studying the atmospheres of smaller, Earth-like planets. We simulated a range of possible atmospheres for this planet, finding that those rich in water and/or methane would explain the observations of GJ 1132b.

"The planet is significantly hotter and a bit larger than Earth, so one possibility is that it is a 'water world' with an atmosphere of hot steam."

Analysing the chemical composition of exoplanet atmospheres could in future yield tell-tale signs of life.

Ozone, derived from oxygen released by plants, is one atmospheric life marker. Methane is another, although it can also be generated by volcanic activity.

US planetary scientist Dr Sara Seager, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has compiled a list of 14,000 different molecules that could provide biosignatures of life on alien worlds.

The American space agency Nasa's new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), due to be launched next year as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, will be powerful enough to begin studying the atmospheres of Earth-like exoplanets.

There are also proposals for an even bigger High Definition Space Telescope (HDST), with a 40ft-wide mirror twice as large as the one carried by the JWST. It would directly image planets in nearby star systems and search for the fingerprints of life in their atmospheres.

The HDST, likely to be a multibillion-pound international project, is not expected to be launched until the 2030s.

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Dwarf Planet Ceres & the Case of the Vanishing Ice Volcanoes

Dwarf Planet Ceres & the Case of the Vanishing Ice Volcanoes

Dwarf Planet Ceres & the Case of the Vanishing Ice Volcanoes
The only mountain peak on the dwarf planet Ceres, the ice volcano Ahuna Mons, may be slowly spreading out and sinking into the crust. In this simulated perspective view, the elevation of the peak has been exaggerated by a factor of two.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI

The solitary mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres may be slowly disappearing, following in the footsteps of earlier peaks. 

New research suggests that the outer layer of the icy world may be slowly shifting over time, allowing the peak to gradually stretch out and sink into the crust. Similar mountains may have peppered the planet in the past and flattened out over time.

"It's sort of like if you spill some syrup or honey on a plate and you watch it spread out over time, not instantaneously like water does but a little more slowly, it eventually gets to a flatter, broader shape; it's the same process," Michael Sori, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, told Space.com. [NASA Probe Snaps Stunning New Pics of Dwarf Planet Ceres]

Sori is lead author on a paper proposing that the mountain, called Ahuna Mons, may be slowly spreading outward due to its viscosity. He presented the results in March at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

When NASA's Dawn mission arrived at Ceres in 2015, it found a nearly flat world with only a single mountain, Ahuna Mons. The massive summit towers 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) above the surface and is at most 200 million years old. Previous research has suggested the peak could be an ice volcano — forming through the process of cryovolcanism, or flowing ice — but its source is still under debate.

The mountain's isolation has been a major puzzle for scientists since Dawn first spotted it. Other icy worlds suspected of hosting cryovolcanoes, such as Pluto and the moons Europa, Triton and Titan, have multiple suspects. Ceres has only one. According to Sori, one possibility is that cryovolcanism was dormant on Ceres until fairly recently — although he calls that an unlikely scenario.

"It's just odd to think of a thermal history of a planet where that would happen, where you would have it be dead for most of its history and then just yesterday, relatively speaking, become active," he said. "It's a weird thermal history to think about."

The other, more likely option is that cryovolcanoes formed throughout the planet's lifetime, then disappeared. Because Ceres lacks an atmosphere or running liquids on its surface, the erosion processes of wind and rain that wear down Earth's mountains don't happen on the tiny world.

Sori and his colleagues focused not on the formation of the mountain but on what happened afterward. They modeled possible compositions for Ahuna Mons and found that, if at least 40 percent of the mountain was made up of ice, it would slowly spread outward like honey on a plate, gradually relaxing or flattening down over time. With more ice, the mountain became more viscous, wavering between solid and liquid.

"Our stuff takes place after the initial emplacement process, so we can be a little bit agnostic as to how the mountain formed in the first place," Sori said. "The key is, it just needs to have enough ice to experience this viscous relaxation."

Cratering records provide one method for calculating the age of a terrain. While Ahuna Mons itself lacks signs of impacts, the region it sits in has craters that provide a limit of about a billion years for the mountain, previous research has shown. Sori's team came up with an even younger age if the precipice is relaxing. If the peak is half ice, it would take 500 million years to relax away after formation, he said; if it is completely ice, it would vanish within 20 million years of its birth.

"Ahuna Mons is young, no more than 200 million years old," Sori said. Its youth suggests that the planet may still be geologically active today, though no definitive signs have been spotted by Dawn.

The new work was detailed in February in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

A view of Ahuna Mons, the only mountain peak on Ceres, as captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
A view of Ahuna Mons, the only mountain peak on Ceres, as captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL/Dawn mission

Ceres may be the lone peak today, but there's evidence that another spire may have risen in the past. Near Ahuna Mons lies the shape of another hill, spotted by a previous team. This may be the remnants of a previous cryovolcano like Ahuna Mons that gradually relaxed away, Sori said.

"Maybe it was emplaced in the same shape [as Ahuna Mons] but flowed into its current shape over a few hundred million years," he added.

That could suggest that the region around Ahuna Mons may be an ongoing source of cryovolcanism. On Earth, shifting plates cause lava to erupt through the crust in multiple locations, often spawning chains of volcanoes, but Ceres has no plate tectonics. Sori said the region could be more like Mars, where rocky lava continued to pile up on itself to create the massive Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the solar system. But while Ahuna Mons may be relaxing due to ice, the rocky Olympus Mons stands firm.

Sori and his colleagues plan to search other images of Ceres for signs of potentially relaxed cryovolcanoes. 

Follow Nola Taylor Redd on Twitter @NolaTRedd or Google+. Follow us at @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com

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A MILITARY OFFICER'S LOST CAMERA REVEALS A PICTURE OF AN ALIEN EMBRYO

A MILITARY OFFICER'S LOST CAMERA REVEALS A PICTURE OF AN ALIEN EMBRYO

Today we received a strange picture of an alleged alien being together with a fascinating story.
 
 Read the eyewitness report and tell us what you think: 
  • This happened exactly 11 years ago in 2006. It was my last year in high school, and I was involved in the art department.
  •  Specifically there was three classes, Photography, Digital Photography and Natural Art. These three rooms were linked together in the middle by an office. I remember that it was me and two friends who were assistances for the teachers and we were talking in the office with the photography teacher.
  •  He was telling us about a camera that was found in his sister’s house. It belonged to a military officer and well he had this camera in his attic, and while they were cleaning out the house and came across it, she decided to develop the pictures to see what they were. 
  • To her surprise, my teacher described her reaction as “completely horrified” there were pictures she immediately threw away and could not believe. He never described to me what these pictures were but one of them he was able to keep.
  •  It’s a specimen with an unknown tag on it. The military official that lived there apparently had died a long time ago and worked in a facility, but nobody ever knew where. My teacher was able to get this picture that was developed, and he showed it to us. 
  • I asked if I could take a picture of it or show it to my friends he said no. He put it in his office and locked the office after we were finished seeing it. During lunch, my department (digital photography) had keys available for the office, and I quickly took the keys and opened the office while they were on lunch and well I quickly snapped pictures and ran back inside the classroom. 
 
This is the picture of the photograph that was developed straight from the old camera! 
 
 
 
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Bewoners van eilanden in Stille Oceaan blijken mysterieus DNA te dragen dat niet gelinkt kan worden aan bekende voorouder - HLN.be

Bewoners van eilanden in Stille Oceaan blijken mysterieus DNA te dragen dat niet gelinkt kan worden aan bekende voorouder - HLN.be

Bron: Phys.org, Science News, ati.com

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Ze wonen op een van de meest afgelegen en unieke plaatsen van de aarde en dat zou hen nog specialer kunnen maken dan we al dachten. Onderzoekers hebben ontdekt dat de bewoners van enkele eilanden in de Stille Oceaan DNA hebben dat niet terug te voeren is op de voorouders van de mens die we al kennen: de denisovamens en de neanderthaler.

Wetenschappers van het MD Anderson Cancer Center aan de universiteit van Texas vonden sporen van een onbekende uitgestorven voorouder in het genetisch materiaal van de Melanesiërs, die op de eilanden wonen ten noordoosten van Australië: onder meer Fiji, Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea en de Salomonseilanden.

Lees ook

media_l_9643671.jpg Onderzoeker Ryan Bohlender.  © Facebook.

Het zou om materiaal van een verre verwant kunnen gaan van de neanderthaler. En het kan misschien helpen een van de mysteries van de Melanesiërs te verklaren, die zo donker zijn als de bevolking van Afrika, maar waarvan een kwart wel blond haar heeft. En niemand weet hoe dat komt. 

Fossielen
Van de neanderthaler zijn heel wat fossielen overgebleven in Europa en Azië, van de denisovamens amper een vingerkootje en wat tanden in een grot in Siberië. Maar allebei zijn ze goed gedocumenteerd. Van de nieuwe voorouder zijn nog geen fossiele resten ontdekt.  

Complexer
"We missen een voorouder", klinkt het bij onderzoeker Ryan Bohlender. "Of er is iets wat we niet begrijpen in hun onderlinge relatie. De menselijke geschiedenis is nog een stuk complexer dan we al dachten."

Het onderzoek toonde ook aan dat er twee keer zo veel mensen leefden in Afrika toen onze soort ontstond en dat de afsplitsing van de neanderthalers 100.000 jaar later gebeurde.

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Aardeachtige planeet is mogelijk 'stomende waterwereld' - HLN.be

Aardeachtige planeet is mogelijk 'stomende waterwereld' - HLN.be

Bron: BBC, Space.com

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Een impressie van GJ 1132b, die rond een rode dwerg cirkelt. © Dana Berry.

Wetenschappers hebben voor het eerst een atmosfeer ontdekt rond een aardeachtige planeet. Ze bestudeerden de planeet GJ 1132b, die 1,4 keer zo groot is als de aarde en 39 lichtjaren van ons verwijderd. Uit de studie, die werd gepubliceerd in het Astronomical Journal, blijkt dat de planeet omgeven is door een dikke laag gassen die ofwel uit water, methaan of een combinatie van beiden bestaan. De ontdekking van een planeet met een atmosfeer is een belangrijke stap in de zoektocht naar leven buiten ons zonnestelsel.

De ontdekking van planeet GJ 1132b werd voor het eerst aangekondigd in 2015. Ze ligt in het Vela-sterrenstelsel en cirkelt rond de dwergster GJ 1132. De planeet is in omvang ongeveer gelijkaardig aan de aarde, maar haar ster is veel kleiner, koeler en zwakker dan onze zon. 

Sterrenkundigen hebben in het verleden al atmosferen ontdekt rond veel grotere gasreuzen zoals Jupiter of rond een 'superaarde' zoals 55 Cancri e, een planeet die ongeveer acht keer groter is dan de aarde op 40 lichtjaren van ons zonnestelsel. Maar het is de allereerste keer dat er bewijs is voor een atmosfeer rond een planeet die qua omvang niet veel verschilt van de aarde. Aan de hand van de atmosfeer kunnen de onderzoekers proberen vast te stellen of deze werelden geschikt zijn voor leven zoals we dat hier kennen en kunnen ze op zoek gaan naar sporen van leven.

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Dikke atmosfeer

Met een telescoop van het Europese Zuidelijke Observatorium in Chili konden de onderzoekers de planeet bestuderen door te observeren hoe ze het licht van haar ster blokkeert terwijl ze er rond cirkelt. "Het maakt dat de ster wat zwakker lijkt - en het is eigenlijk een heel goede manier om cirkelende planeten te vinden - zo werd deze ontdekt," aldus dr. Southworth. 

Verschillende moleculen in de atmosfeer van een planeet - indien ze over een beschikt tenminste - absorberen licht op verschillende manieren, waardoor wetenschappers op zoek kunnen gaan naar hun chemische 'handtekeningen'. 

Op basis van de observaties van planeet GJ 1132b vermoeden ze dat deze beschikt over een dikke atmosfeer die bestaat uit stoom en/of methaan. "Een mogelijkheid is dat het een 'waterwereld' is met een atmosfeer van hete stoom," zegt Southworth.

Leven mogelijk?

De kans dat er leven is op GJ 1132b is echter zeer klein: de planeet heeft een oppervlaktetemperatuur van 390 graden Celsius. 

"De warmste temperatuur waarbij leven op onze aarde kon bestaan is 120 graden Celsius en dat is veel koeler dan deze planeet, zegt dr. John Southworth, de hoofdonderzoeker van de Keele University. 

Toch is de ontdekking van een planeet met een atmosfeer hoopgevend. "Wat we hebben aangetoond is dat planeten rond lichte sterren atmosferen kunnen hebben en omdat er daarvan zoveel zijn in het universum, maakt dit het veel waarschijnlijker dat er eentje leven zou hebben."

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Deze NASA-astronauten geloven dat aliens bestaan en de aarde hebben bezocht

Deze NASA-astronauten geloven dat aliens bestaan en de aarde hebben bezocht

Deze NASA-astronauten geloven dat aliens bestaan en de aarde hebben bezocht

Een aantal NASA-astronauten heeft gezegd dat buitenaardsen bestaan en dat ze al geruime tijd in contact staan met de mensheid.

Tenminste vier bekende astronauten hebben zich openlijk uitgesproken over bestaan van aliens.

Sommigen van hen hebben UFO’s zien vliegen, terwijl anderen claimen dat ze door hoge militaire functionarissen zijn ingelicht over buitenaards contact.

Edgar Mitchell

In 1971 werd Edgar Mitchell de zesde maan die op de maan liep. De rest van zijn leven bleef hij vertellen dat ‘aliens ons al lange tijd in de gaten houden en hier al heel lang zijn’.

Hij claimde eens dat vredelievende aliens de aarde hadden bezocht om ons te behoeden voor een kernoorlog en dat het Vaticaan de waarheid kent over het bestaan van buitenaardsen.

Mitchell zei ook dat UFO’s zijn gezien boven kerninstallaties en tijdens de Koude Oorlog vaak kernraketten uitschakelden.

De astronaut stelde bovendien dat de Amerikaanse overheid het beroemde Roswellincident in de doofpot heeft gestopt.

“De reden hiervoor was dat ze niet wisten of de aliens al dan niet kwaad in de zin hadden en ze wilden niet dat de Sovjets er lucht van zouden krijgen,” zei hij.

Gordon Cooper

Cooper deed mee aan Project Mercury, de eerste Amerikaanse bemande ruimtemissie. Hij zei in 1951 UFO’s te hebben gezien boven Duitsland.

De astronaut zei ook dat hij vliegende schotels had gezien boven een geheime vliegbasis waar experimentele Amerikaanse vliegtuigen werden getest.

“Deze buitenaardse vaartuigen en hun bemanningsleden komen van andere planeten die iets hoger ontwikkeld zijn,” zei hij in 1984.

“We moeten eerst laten zien dat we onze problemen op een vreedzame manier kunnen oplossen en niet door middel van oorlog, voordat we kunnen worden geaccepteerd als leden van het universele team.”

Deke Slayton

Slayton was ook onderdeel van Project Mercury en werd later directeur van Flight Crew Operations van de NASA.

In 1951 zag hij naar verluidt een UFO. “Het leek op een vliegende schotel,” zei hij. “Ik had geen camera bij me, anders had ik zeker foto’s gemaakt.”

“Het [object] versnelde plotseling en verdween,” zei Slayton.

Brian O’Leary

O’Leary is nooit in de ruimte geweest, maar was wel één van de 11 astronauten die in de jaren zestig in aanmerking kwamen voor een mogelijke Marsmissie.

Later in zijn leven had O’Leary een bijna-doodervaring die zijn kijk op het leven en de realiteit drastisch veranderde.

“Er is overvloedig bewijs dat we worden bezocht [door aliens],” zei O’Leary, die als professor was verbonden aan de Princeton University.

“Beschavingen houden ons al heel lang in de gaten en vanuit het traditionele materialistische westerse standpunt bekeken zien ze er bizar uit.”

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ER VERSCHIJNEN VREEMDE WORMGATEN BOVEN ONZE ATMOSFEER ( VIDEO )

ER VERSCHIJNEN VREEMDE  WORMGATEN  BOVEN ONZE ATMOSFEER ( VIDEO )

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Wij mensen zijn in onze driedimensionale werkelijkheid heel erg beperkt in wat we wel of niet kunnen. 

Zo zitten we vast aan begrippen zoals tijd en ruimte, maar er verschijnen steeds meer aanwijzingen dat buitenaardsen dit probleem allang hebben opgelost. 



De afgelopen jaren schreven we regelmatig over vreemde wolken die af en toe aan de hemel verschijnen en waar met de regelmaat van de klok UFO’s in en uit vliegen. 

Wanneer je dan beelden ziet zoals wij die regelmatig laten zien, waarbij onbekende vliegende objecten met enorme snelheid verdwijnen in een soort onweerswolk om er vervolgens niet meer uit te komen, dan is het niet zo vreemd om te veronderstellen dat we hier te maken hebben met een dimensieportaal. 

Een toegangspoort die door buitenaardsen wordt gebruikt om met hun UFO’s op aarde aan te komen en/of te vertrekken, waardoor ze via die poorten de normale beperkingen van tijd en ruimte omzeilen en zo in "no time" andere delen van ons universum kunnen bereiken. 

Een dergelijke poort wordt ook een wormgat genoemd. 

Een wormgat, ook bekend als een Einstein-Rosen brug, is een hypothetische mogelijkheid om binnen de ruimtetijd sneller dan het licht te reizen. In de normale ruimte kan men tussen twee punten niet sneller reizen dan het licht, maar volgens de theorie van een wormgat bestaat er een "korte weg" in het universum. Langs deze korte weg is het dan mogelijk om sneller naar een ander punt in de ruimte te reizen dan wanneer je zou "omreizen" over de normale weg, ook al zou je dat doen met de snelheid van het licht. 

De term wormgat werd bedacht door de Amerikaanse theoretisch natuurkundige John Wheeler in 1957, maar het idee van wormgaten was al getheoretiseerd in 1921 door de Duitse wiskundige Hermann Weyl in verband met zijn analyse van de massa in termen van het elektromagnetisch veld. 

De naam wormgat komt van de analogie die vroeger gebruikt werd om dit uit te leggen: beeld je in dat het universum de schil van een appel is, en een worm van de éne zijde van de appel naar de andere zijde wil geraken. Als de worm op de schil van de appel blijft is de kortste afstand de helft van de omtrek van de appel. Maar als de worm in plaats van rond te gaan, een gat (wormgat) graaft recht door de appel, is de afstand merkbaar minder, namelijk de diameter van de appel. 


Dit zou dan ook verklaren hoe het kan dat buitenaardsen in een oogwenk naar andere planeten kunnen reizen. 

Naast de vele voorbeelden die we hebben gezien met vreemde wolken, zijn er ook aanwijzingen dat ze dergelijke wormgaten gebruiken net buiten de atmosfeer in de ruimte rondom onze planeet. 

Er komen regelmatig verhalen van mensen die bepaalde flitsen waarnemen aan de hemel. Het duurt maar kort en ze bestrijken ook maar een klein deel van de hemel. Omdat het zo snel gaat, is dit fenomeen ook heel moeilijk vast te leggen. 

Degene die dat wel is gelukt, of die het gelukt is dit fenomeen op NASA beelden te vinden, is de bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1. 

Zowel op vier als op vijf april 2017 slaagde hij erin om dergelijke flitsen uit de NASA beelden te halen en deze zien er dan als volgt uit:


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Wat op de beelden verschijnt, lijkt geen natuurlijk fenomeen te zijn en het zijn ook geen meteorieten, want die verschijnen niet als een korte flits in de ruimte. 

Op één van de beelden lijkt het wel alsof er letterlijk een deur wordt opengedaan naar iets anders. 

Is dit een ander verschijnsel van wormgaten zoals die door buitenaardsen gebruikt zou kunnen worden of is er een andere verklaring voor dit fenomeen? 

 

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Tom DeLonge on Why UFO Research Just Might Save Mankind

Tom DeLonge on Why UFO Research Just Might Save Mankind

"The more I got into it, the more I realized it was all real," says former Blink-182 member. "I was like, 'OK, what am I going to do about it?'"

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Two UFO sightings in North Bay last year

Two UFO sightings in North Bay last year

The most popular shape of UFO reported in 2016 was a simple point source of light
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69 Years Ago A UFO Crashed In Aztec, Arizona In 1948, And Was Covered Up, Video, UFO Sighting News.

69 Years Ago A UFO Crashed In Aztec, Arizona In 1948, And Was Covered Up, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of crash: 1948
Location of crash: Aztec, Arizona, USA

Its important to look back at the past UFO sightings, but especially at the UFO crashes that took place in history. Here is an in depth look at this crash, and how the evidence was overwhelming. Alien bodies and craft were found, and the public of course was kept in the dark. 

Scott C. Waring

Report states:

Source: (Credit: aztecufo.com)
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THE AZTEC RECOVERY 1948

It was the columnist Frank Scully who first alerted the world to sensational stories of recovered flying saucers and little men in his best-selling book Behind the Flying Saucers published in 1950. Scully claimed that up to that time there had been four such recoveries, one of which was alleged to have taken place around Aztec, New Mexico, when sixteen humanoid bodies were recovered together with their undamaged craft. According to Scully's informants, the disk that landed near Aztec was 99.99 feet in diameter, its exterior made of a light metal resembling aluminum but so durable that no amount of heat (up to 10,000 degrees was applied) or diamond-tipped drill had the slightest effect. The disk apparently incorporated large rings of metal which revolved around a central, stabilized cabin, using an unfamiliar gear ratio. There were no rivets, bolts, screws or signs of welding. Investigators were eventually able to gain entry. Scully was told, because of a fracture in one of the portholes, which they enlarged, revealing a knob inside the cabin which when pushed (with a pole) caused a hidden door to open. Sixteen small humanoids, ranging in height from 36 to 42 inches, were supposedly found dead inside the cabin, their bodies charred to a dark brown color. Scully was told that the craft landed undamaged, having landed under its own guidance. The craft was eventually dismantled, the investigators having discovered that it was manufactured in segments which fitted in grooves and were pinned together around the base. The complete cabin section, measuring 18 feet in diameter was lifted out of the base of the saucer, around which was a gear that fitted a gear on the cabin. These segments, together with the bodies, were then transported to Wright Field (Wright Patterson AFB). Some of the bodies were later dissected and examined by the Air Force, and were found to be similar in all respects to human beings, with the exception of their teeth, which were perfect.


New Supportive Evidence?

According to important information published by William Steinman in 1987 there is a large grain of truth in the Aztec story, and he has managed to acquire some astonishing supportive evidence. Like Scully, he is unwilling to divulge his sources, which inevitably lays him open to charges of fabrication. Steinman discovered that the Aztec disk came to earth on 25 March 1948, having been detected by three separate radar units in the southwest, one of which was said to have disrupted the craft's control mechanism. The area of impact was calculated by triangulation and this information was immediately relayed to Air Defense Command and Gen. George C. Marshall, then Secretary of State, who allegedly contacted the MJ-12 group as well as the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) of the Army Counterintelligence Directorate. The IPU operated out of Camp Hale, Colorado, at this time, Steinman claims, and its main function was to collect and deliver disabled or crashed disks to certain specified secret locations. The craft was recovered within hours by the IPU scout team about 12 miles northeast of Aztec. General Marshall ordered Air Defense Command to go off alert status, and the radar units were advised that there had been a false alarm. Marshall then gave orders to the commander of the IPU to organize a recovery team and contacted Dr. Vannevar Bush - the. head of MJ-12 to gather together a team of scientists to accompany the IPU to the crash site. Steinman has named these scientists as follows:


Dr., Lloyd Berkner, Dr. Detlev Bronk, Dr. Carl A. Heiland, Dr. Jerome Hunsaker, Dr. John von Neumann, Dr. Robert J. Oppenheimer, Dr. Merle A. Tuve, Dr. Horace B. van Vandenberg.


Four of these scientists, it will be noted, were members of the original MJ-12 panel set up in September 1947. Dr. Carl A. Heiland was a geophysicist and magnetic sciences expert who was the head of the Colorado School of Mines, and according to Steinman leaked details of the recovery to one of Scully's sources, Leo GeBauer. Dr. Horace B. van Vandenberg was an inorganic chemist associated with the University of Colorado. Dr. Merle A. Tuve worked for the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, and is chiefly remembered as a geophysicist for his techniques of radio wave propagation of the upper atmosphere. Dr. Robert J. Oppenheimer distinguished himself primarily as leader of the Los Alamos atomic bomb project , commanding the allegiance of the world's top physicists. He was the Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton from 1947 and became Chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission. Dr. John von Neumann, the famous Hungarian born mathematician, became a consultant on the atomic bomb (Manhatten Project) in 1943. His main area of expertise lay in the design and development of computers. The scientists, according to Steinman, were told by Dr. Bush to assemble at Durango Airfield, Colorado, 35 miles to the north of Aztec, with the minimum delay. All those involved in the recovery were sworn to an above top secret oath.


The IPU convoy used a route to the site that avoided main roads, and on arrival road blocks were set up at strategic points within two miles of the recovery area. The owner of a ranch and his family were allegedly held incommunicado and told never to discuss the matter (cf. the Roswell incident). Equipment hauling trucks were camouflaged to look like oil drilling rigs during the operation.


Inside the Craft


A team of scientists arrived at the site a little later than the IPU team and began dissecting the disk. According to Steinman, they entered the craft one by one, entry having been gained via a fractured porthole as described in Scully's account. The portholes themselves looked metallic and only appeared translucent on close inspection. Inside the craft they found two humanoids, about two feet in height, slumped over an instrument panel charred deep brown. Another 12 bodies lay sprawled on the floor in chamber within the cabin, making a total of 14 bodies (not 16 as Scully had been told).


An instrument panel supposedly had several pushbuttons and levers with hieroglyphic-type symbols, as well as symbols illuminated on small display screens. Bush and von Neumann discovered that the control panel had drawers which rolled out, but no wiring could be detected. A book composed of parchment-like leaves with the texture of plastic also contained the strange hieroglyphs - similar to Sanskrit, Oppenheimer thought. This was given to General Marshall, who then passed it on to two leading cryptological experts for analysis, William F. Friedman and Lambros C. Callihamos (who both later led distinguished careers in the National Security Agency).


Dr. Bronk, a physiologist and biophysicist, examined the bodies and asked Bush to get hold of cryogenic equipment with which to preserve them. Cryogenics specialist Dr. Paul A. Scherer, a colleague of Bush's, was contacted and advised Bush to obtain some dry ice. Meanwhile, another small group of scientists and military personnel examined the craft and were eventually able to dismantle it when several interlocking key devices were found which opened up seams at specific points.


Three days later the segments were loaded onto three trucks, together with the bodies, and transported with a tarpaulin marked "Explosives". The convoy headed at night by the least conspicuous and often most laborious route to the restricted Naval Auxiliary Airfield Complex at Los Alamos, arriving one week later. Here they remained for over a year, Steinman claims, before being transported to another base.


The Bodies

Dr. Paul A. Scherer eventually obtained special preservation containers for the least damaged bodies, Steinman relates. One of the companies which supplied equipment was the Air Research Corporation, of which Scherer was Director of Research and Development; it supplied the liquid nitrogen pump, circulation system and refrigeration units. Other specimens were given a complete autopsy, by a team headed by Dr. Bronk, of biophysicists, histochemists and pathologists. The results were put in a report, part of which, Steinman claims, appeared in the "Air Force Project Sign (Grudge) Report No. 13" which has never been released.


According to the report, the bodies were described as averaging 42 inches in length. The facial features strongly resembled "mongoloid Orientals" in appearance, with disproportionately large heads, large "slant" eyes, small noses and mouths. The average weight was about 40 pounds. The torsos were very small and thin, with very thin necks. The arms were long and slender, reaching the knees, with hands containing long and slender fingers with webbing between them. There was no digestive or gastrointestinal tract, no alimentary or intestinal canal, and no rectal point. No reproductive organs were apparent. Instead of blood there was a colorless liquid with no red cells which smelled similar to ozone.


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Further Evidence

Veteran researcher Leonard Stringfield, a former Air Force intelligence officer who is the world's leading specialist on what he calls "Retrievals of the Third Kind," shares my misgivings about some of the material in Steinman's book, but we are both impressed with his extensive research into the Aztec case. Stringfield has uncovered further evidence himself. Captain V. A. Postlethwait, who was on detached service with Army G-2 (Intelligence) in 1948, told Stringfield that he was cleared to see a top secret cable describing the crash of a saucer-shaped craft 100 feet in diameter and 30 feet high, with one porthole broken, causing suffocation to the five occupants - who had turned blue as a result. The bodies were about four feet tall with relatively large heads, Postlethwait recollects. The metallic skin of the saucer was too tough to penetrate, although as thin as newspaper. The incident was said to have occurred near White Sands, New Mexico. Aside from a few discrepancies there are some significant parallels with the Aztec case. Postlethwait revealed to Stringfield, for example, that private property was purchased to facilitate transporting the craft.


Leonard Stringfield has also spoken with Dr. Robert Spencer Carr, a retired University of South Florida professor who claims to have testimonial evidence from five sources, including a nurse and a high-ranking Air Force officer who participated in the recovery of a crashed UFO and occupants in 1948 - presumed to be the one at Aztec (although there was another alleged recovery that year, just across the Mexican border near Laredo, Texas). In 1982 Stringfield asked Carr to disclose the name of his principal source, "on the premise that our ages give us little time tolerance in our search for truth."


"When Professor Carr named his source," says Stringfield, "I sat back dumbfounded. I knew his name well in research, and recalled some of his comments on UFOs while he served as an Air Force officer. . . . "Please, Len," pleaded Carr, "keep the name to yourself; please spare me any trouble as long as I live . . . My key witness participated in the 1948 retrieval and saw alien bodies on location."


According to Bill Steinman, two of Carr's sources were aeronautical engineers who provided important information regarding the saucer's construction and propulsion. A source now named is Arthur Bray (not to be confused with the Canadian researcher), a security guard involved with the recovery project. Carr also interviewed a woman whose father was present during the recovery. Information pertaining to the flying saucers must be suppressed, he told his daughter. "If news of this vehicle's water-driven engine got out to the whole scientific community, that would be the end of the oil industry." The comment is of course pure hearsay, but if there is any truth in it a further possible reason for the cover-up is brought to light.


At the still fenced-off crash site on a plateau twelve miles northeast of Aztec, Bill Steinman has uncovered charred and scraped-off rocks of various sizes as well as some metal bracing struts that might possibly have been used for supporting the craft. On one of his visits to the area he was shadowed by two unmarked helicopters.


As for George Bowra's claim that no one in Aztec, could recall the incident, Steinman has traced at least four people who knew where the crash site was located, one of whom, "V.A.," recalls that sometime between 1948 and 1950 a huge disk-shaped flying object with a dome on top skimmed about 100 feet above the ground not far from him. The witness pointed out to Steinman a cliff jutting above the Animas River.


"That thing, or flying saucer, tried hard to clear that cliff, but it hit the very corner up there, shooting sparks and rocks in every direction," he claims. "Finally, it made a right-angle turn in midair and headed straight north in the direction of the alleged crash site at Hart Canyon. That's the last I saw of it. I ran into the house and called the military in Albuquerque. I never heard from them about it."


Steinman first became interested in UFOs in 1981 when he read Frank Scully's book, and has since devoted much of his time and resources on the Aztec case and the other recoveries associated with Scully's claims, often in the face of discouraging odds. Steinman's job in quality assurance and analysis in the aerospace industry has aided him in probing the complex and intricate leads that he has pursued.


Writing in the foreword to Steinman's book, UFO Crash at Aztec, Leonard Stringfield explains how, like many others, he was led to believe the Scully story was a hoax, his disbelief long being conditioned by a succession of ufologists who for years claimed that Scully "was duped by a scheming Silas Newton and his cohort, Leo Gebauer." But now, thanks to Bill Steinman's painstaking research (as well as some of his own leads), he has been obliged to reevaluate the evidence.

 

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California Man Films UFO, Gets Family To Come Out And Watch (Bad Language), Video, UFO Sighting News.

California Man Films UFO, Gets Family To Come Out And Watch (Bad Language), Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: March 15, 2017
Location of sighting: California, USA
Source: MUFON #82604

This is an awesome video posted by Isaac Wilee (click to subscribe to him) of Youtube. The video shows a triangle craft that may be the new evolution of the TR3B, but it certainly isn't the old one, because the TR3B has one small light (for balance hovering) on each corner (white lights) and a larger light orb at its center (propulsion). Awesome video. 

Scott C. Waring

Eyewitness states:

"I pulled onto my street heading home and I noticed 3 bright lights in the sky. 2 red and one white flashing very fast. I recorded it for a few seconds from my car, until the video went out of focus, then pulled into my driveway and went inside to tell people to come look. My brother in law came outside and seen it as well. I started to record again and as I did it changed its white light to red and began pulsating slowly with the other 2 lights now turned off. It then flickered its lights and changed the red pulsating light back to white, continued to pulsate, and then went back to flashing again for the remainder of the time I watched. It eventually vanished."

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UFO Fan Disappears Without A Trace – Leaving Coded Writings In His Room VIDEO!

UFO Fan Disappears Without A Trace – Leaving Coded Writings In His Room VIDEO

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The mysterious disappearance of a UFO enthusiast in Brazil causes speculations of alien abductions. Bruno Borges left behind a locked room full of coded writings and bizarre photos of extra-terrestrials. The internet is convinced that Borges has been either nabbed by the Men in Black or aliens after he suddenly disappeared without telling his family.

Bruno Borges

Avideo inside the room of Borges shows notebooks with cryptic writings on the covers and symbols apparently associated with pentagrams.

Bruno’s relatives said that he did not reveal details of what he was working, but hinted that he was into writing a series of books, which, according to Bruno, would change humanity in a good way.

The family had not yet received substantial information on what has happened, according to Father Athors Borges, who also said that they tried to call him on his mobile phone, but it was off.

The family said that this is the first time Bruno disappears without a trace. Athors stated that his son did not take anything and he was leaving their home the last time they saw him.

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Flashing triangle-shaped craft hovering above Ontario, Canada

Flashing triangle-shaped craft hovering above Ontario, Canada

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This interesting footage of triangle UFO sighting was recorded over Barrie in Ontario Canada on 27th February 2017.

Witness report:

 I pulled onto my street heading home and I noticed 3 bright lights in the sky; 2 red and one white flashing very fast. I recorded it for a few seconds from my car, until the video went out of focus, then pulled into my driveway and went inside to tell people to come look. My brother-in-law came outside and saw it as well. I started to record again and as I did it changed its white light to red and began pulsating slowly with the other 2 lights now turned off. It then flickered its lights and changed the red pulsating light back to white, continued to pulsate, and then went back to flashing again for the remainder of the time I watched. It eventually vanished from view.

Author (source: MUFON)

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Dead Aliens Stored In Underground Bunkers?

Dead Aliens Stored In Underground Bunkers?

This past weekend I spoke at the annual Edinburg, Texas “Out Of This World” conference. The subject: mysterious deaths in the field of Ufology. During the course of the gig, one of the attendees asked – given the various books I have written – if I had a large database of material on UFO-themed cases, witness reports, and so on. Well, yes, I do. So, I figured that today I would share with you one of those reports. It demonstrates the undeniably bizarre nature of certain aspects of the UFO phenomenon. It also reveals how the subject has been manipulated for very strange purposes.

On September 2, 2014, I had an interesting chat with a retired employee of the U.S. Air Force. I’ll call him “Harry Palmer.” He contacted me to share a deeply odd story – and specifically after reading my 2011 book, The Real Men in Black. Palmer’s exposure to the UFO phenomenon occurred below Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. The base in question is a highly secure military installation. It has a reputation for (allegedly) being the home of a number of well-preserved – and some not so well-preserved – corpses of dead aliens, presumably recovered from more than a few UFO crashes. Many UFO skeptics ignore or write-off such claims. Harry Palmer told me he knew better.

It was a winter’s night in 1988 when Palmer (27 at the time) was ordered to report to one particular building on the base that he had never previously been in, one which was connected to a certain weapons-storage area. On doing so, he was met by three very pale-skinned men dressed in dark suits. They directed him to a door which, when opened, revealed a large elevator on the other side. Silently, the black-clad trio motioned Palmer into the elevator. He quickly realized he was descending – and to a fairly deep degree. He was then ushered into a corridor which had a large vault-like door at its end.

One of the three men opened it, and in a strange high-pitched voice, ordered Palmer into the vault. The same man pointed at a large container – perhaps nine feet in length and five feet in width – and told Palmer to take a look inside. He did as he was told and was shocked – to the point of feeling nauseous and clammy – by the sight of a badly-damaged body of what he, Palmer, could only guess was an extraterrestrial. The head was large, the eyes were huge and black, and the severed and small torso was skinny.

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In seconds, Palmer was forcibly taken from the room, taken to yet another room, and then ordered to sign a document which effectively said that if he ever spoke of what he saw he would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law for violating U.S. national security regulations. After signing the document, a worried Palmer was taken back up to the surface and left there to make his way back to his regular place of work.

Clearly, this affair makes absolutely no sense at all – unless someone was playing weird mind-games with Palmer, which I think was probably the case, as I will soon reveal. It’s a fact that UFOs had zero bearing on Palmer’s work at Wright-Patterson. So, why expose him to something so astonishing that, in all probability, he would one day share the story with people – like his family and, in 2014, me?

My view on all this is that Palmer was shown the body (or, far more likely, an expertly-created model) to determine his loyalty. It may have been intended all along for him to see “it.” If Palmer kept quiet about what he saw, he was a good military man and someone considered trustworthy. If he told his family of what he had seen, he was, maybe, a potential security risk and needed to be watched carefully. And if he ran to a Soviet handler, it was jail-time. But, the important thing to remember is that no real secret would ever have been compromised: it was all a ruse and a test of loyalty.

On this thought-provoking matter/theory, Palmer told me he was assigned to a particularly sensitive non-UFO project (a description of which he did not expand on) just five days before seeing the body in the container. With that latter, notable issue in my mind, I strongly suspect that the body seen by Palmer was not real. The whole thing was a staged event. It was designed to see how – and to what extent – Palmer could be trusted.

If true, this saga may very well help to explain some of the highly controversial stories concerning military personnel who have reportedly been exposed to alleged alien bodies in underground rooms (such as the many “Hangar 18” legends attached to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), and under “convenient” and unlikely circumstances that many skeptical researchers think are just too good to be true. They probably are too good to be true. But not for the reasons that the skeptics think. This case also suggests that intelligence agents might, at times, mimic the actions and creepy appearances of the MIB – which is a story for another day.

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Massive explosion from unknown source billions of light years away baffles astronomers

Massive explosion from unknown source billions of light years away baffles astronomers

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David Coward, University of Western Australia

At 10:49pm Western Australian time on February 2 this year, cosmic gamma rays hit the Nasa satellite, Swift, orbiting the Earth. Within seconds of the detection, an alert was automatically sent to the University of WA's Zadko Telescope. It swung into robotic action, taking images of the sky location in the constellation Ophiuchus.

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What emerged from the blackness, where nothing was seen before, was a rapidly brightening "optical transient", which is something visible in the sky for a brief period of time.

The event, named GRB170202, was a very energetic gamma ray burst (GRB). After less than a minute, the gamma rays switched off, and the GRB appeared as a brightening and then fading optical beacon.

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The Zadko Telescope recorded the entire evolution of the optical outburst. During its biggest outburst, GRB170202 was equivalent in brightness to millions of stars shining together from the same location.

About 9 hours 42 mins after the GRB, the Very Large Telescope in Chile acquired the spectrum of the light from the optical afterglow.

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This enabled a distance to the burst to be measured: about 12 billion light years. The universe has expanded to four times the size it was then, 12 billion years ago, the time it took the light to reach Earth.

GRB170202 was so far away, even its host galaxy was not visible, just darkness. Because the GRB was a transient, never to be seen again, it is like turning on a light in a dark room (the host galaxy) and trying to record the detail in the room before the light goes out.

Mystery of gamma ray burst

The flash of gamma radiation and subsequent optical transient is the telltale signature of a black hole birth from the cataclysmic collapse of a star. Such events are rare and require some special circumstances, including a very massive star up to tens of solar masses (the mass of our Sun) rotating rapidly with a strong magnetic field.

These ingredients are crucial to launch two jets that punch through the collapsing star to produce the gamma ray burst (see animation). The closest analogue (and better understood transient) to a GRB is a supernova explosion from a collapsing star. In fact, some relatively nearby GRBs reveal evidence of an energetic supernova linked to the event.

Simulations show that most collapsing stars don't have enough energy to produce a GRB jet, a so-called "failure to launch" scenario. Both observation and theory show that GRBs are extremely rare when compared to the occurrence of supernovae.

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The stars that produce GRBs are born and die within some tens to hundreds of thousands of years, unlike our Sun which has been around for billions of years. This is because very massive stars exhaust their fuel very quickly, and undergo violent gravitational collapse leading to a black hole, on the timescale of seconds.

A plethora of rogue black holes

The rates of black hole formation throughout the universe can be inferred from the GRB rate. Based on the observed GRB rate, there must be thousands of black hole births occurring each day throughout the entire universe.

So what is the fate of these cosmic monsters? Most will be lurking in their host galaxies, occasionally devouring stars and planets.

Others will be in a gravitational death dance with other black holes until they merge into a single black hole with a burst of gravitational waves (GWs), such as the first discovery of such an event by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).

At the frontier of understanding black hole formation is the search for a special kind of GRB that marks the merger (collision) of two neutron stars. So called "short GRBs" are flashes of gamma radiation that last less than a second and could be the "smoking gun" for neutron star mergers.

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Importantly, merging neutron stars should be detected from their gravitational radiation by LIGO. Hence, a coincident detection in gamma rays, optical and gravitational waves is a real possibility.

This would be a monumental discovery allowing unprecedented insight into the physics of black hole formation. The revolution is like listening to the radio on a 1920s receiver and then watching a modern high definition surround sound movie.

Future challenges

Given the above rate of thousands of black holes created per day, it seems that coincident detection of GRBs and gravitational waves is a no brainer.

But in reality we must take into account the limited sensitivity of all the telescopes (and detectors). This reduces the potential observation rate to some tens per year. This is high enough to inspire a global scramble to search for the first coincident gravitational wave sources with electromagnetic counterparts.

The task is extremely difficult because the gravitational wave observatories cannot pinpoint the location of the source very well. To counter this, a strategy of searching for coincident gravitational wave and electromagnetic detections in time may be the best bet.

The newly funded ARC Centre of Excellence OzGrav mission is to understand the extreme physics of black holes.

One of the goals is to search for optical, radio and high energy counterparts coincident with gravitational waves from black hole creation. Australia is poised to play a significant role in this new era of "multi-messenger astronomy".

David Coward, Associate professor, University of Western Australia

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Iron Man-Style Exosuit Turns Inventor into Real-Life Superhero

Iron Man-Style Exosuit Turns Inventor into Real-Life Superhero

Iron Man-Style Exosuit Turns Inventor into Real-Life Superhero
The so-called Daedalus suit is a jet engine-powered exosuit developed by amateur inventor Richard Browning.
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Residents of the quiet town of Salisbury, in the south of England, had no clue until last week that their neighbor, a 38-year-old oil trader named Richard Browning, is a real-life Iron Man in the making.

The amateur inventor had been secretly building a jet engine-powered exoskeleton suit, and he recently unveiled how the futuristic ensemble enables him to hover in the air like a superhero.

Despite the noisiness of the technology, which consists of three sets of miniature jet engines attached to the arms and the back, Browning managed to keep the work completely under wraps. For 18 months, he had been experimenting in his garage, trying to figure out the optimal number and position of the jet engines to allow him to fly with a minimal amount of equipment. [Humanoid Robots to Flying Cars: 10 Coolest DARPA Projects]

"The philosophy behind all this was: Could we reimagine how a really raw form of human flight would work?" Browning told Live Science.

"The human body is very good at being trained to do specific things, and it's a useful structure, and the human mind is a pretty amazing machine. So, we had this idea — rather than go and rely on aluminum structures to build the machine, rely on gyros and computers in order to achieve stability, why not rely on the human machine, keep it as raw and original as possible?"

Browning, a former marine reservist who runs ultramarathons and performs calisthenics stunts, admitted that piloting the device takes quite a lot of personal strength and body coordination. There is no steering mechanism, and speed and direction can be adjusted only by changing the direction of the engines' thrust, solely using upper-body strength.

"You have a trigger at your right hand, which controls the arm engines, and you have a trigger at your left hand, which controls the rear engines," said Browning. The inventor added that he was inspired to create the suit by the Greek myth of Daedalus, who made himself wings to escape from captivity. The suit takes its name from the myth.

"You preset the power levels. Your arms are held out, and as you then line them up vertically and direct them towards the ground, all the thrust vectors [thrust vector is the direction in which the engine produces force] start lining up and you achieve lift-off. When you want to go down, you flail your arms again."

Browning, who recently established a company called Gravity, said he hopes to further enhance the technology. Currently, he can stay in the air for up to 10 minutes using the exosuit. Browning said he thinks he could eventually fly more than 60 mph (100 km/h) and to an altitude of about 330 feet (100 meters), but so far, the inventor has kept his superhero experiments at a running speed of about 5 mph (8 km/h) and an altitude of only 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 m) above the ground.

The next phase of the project will focus on improving the suit's performance, and that work will include experimenting with longer flights, Browning said.

"There is also some parallel development going on with airbag technology and parachute technology to enhance safety and allow us to fly higher — for example, above water," he added.

Since the unveiling of his innovation, Browning has been flooded not only with invitations to demonstrate the technology at high-profile events but also with queries from daredevils and wealthy technology lovers keen to have their own Iron Man-style flying suits, the inventor said.

"The cost is about $250,000, so it's something that you could buy instead of a Lamborghini," Browning said. "It's not intended for the mass market at this stage."

The next generation of the Daedalus suit will most likely have a suspension mechanism that would make maneuvering the technology easier, even for people with less physical strength than Browning, he said.

"It's really an amazing piece of engineering," said Pete Wood, a tech enthusiast and digital marketing manager at RS Components, a global supplier of industrial components and tools. RS Components is helping Browning to fine-tune the technology and streamline the circuit boards controlling the Daedalus suit's jets.

"Right now, it's more about displays, but I can imagine in [the] future, it could be used by the emergency services, for example," Wood said, hinting at a future of flying firemen rescuing people trapped in burning fifth-floor apartments in superhero style.

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NASA will destroy a $3.26 billion Saturn probe this summer to protect an alien water world

NASA will destroy a $3.26 billion Saturn probe this summer to protect an alien water world

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NASA/JPL-CaltechAn illustration of the Cassini spacecraft over Saturn’s north pole with its hexagon-shaped storm.
  • The Cassini spacecraft, which launched toward Saturn in 1997, is running very low on fuel.
  • To avoid running out and accidentally crashing into and contaminating a nearby moon that may harbour alien life, NASA is going to destroy the robot.
  • Before Cassini perishes, however, it will fly between Saturn and its rings and record as much new data as possible.

For nearly three decades, researchers have worked to design, build, launch, and operate an unprecedented mission to explore Saturn.

Called Cassini-Huygens — or Cassini for short — the golden nuclear-powered spacecraft launched in October 1997, fell into orbit around the gas giant in July 2004, and has been documenting the planet and its dizzying variety of moons ever since.

But all good things must come to an end. And for NASA’s $US3.26 billion probe, that day is Friday, September 15, 2017.

During a press conference held by the US space agency on April 4, researchers explained why they’re killing off their cherished spacecraft with what they call the “Grand Finale.” The manoeuvre will use up the fleeting reserves of Cassini’s fuel, putting it on a collision course with Saturn.

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“Cassini’s own discoveries were its demise,” said Earl Maize, an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) who manages the Cassini mission.

Maize was referring to a warm, saltwater ocean that Cassini found hiding beneath the icy crust of Enceladus, a large moon of Saturn that spews water into space. NASA’s probe flew through these curtain-like jets of vapour and ice in October 2015, “tasted” the material, and indirectly discovered the subsurface ocean’s composition — and it’s one that may support alien life.

“We cannot risk an inadvertent contact with that pristine body,” Maize said. “Cassini has got to be put safely away. And since we wanted to stay at Saturn, the only choice was to destroy it in some controlled fashion.”

However, Maize and a collaboration of researchers from 19 nations aren’t going to let their plucky probe go down without a fight.

They plan to squeeze every last byte of data they can from the robot, right up until Cassini turns into a brilliant radioactive comet above the swirling storms of Saturn.

‘We’re going in, and we’re not coming out’

Long before Cassini began orbiting Saturn in 2004, mission managers carefully plotted out its orbits to squeeze in as many flybys of the gas giant planet, its moons, and its expansive icy rings as possible.

Their goal: get lots of chances to record unprecedented new images, gravitational data, and magnetic readings without putting the spacecraft into harm’s way or burning up too much of its limited propellant.

But after 13 years of operation at nearly 1 billion miles (1.45 billion kilometers) away from Earth, Cassini’s tank is running close to empty.

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“We’re coming to the end. As it runs out of fuel, the things it can do are quite limited — until we decided on a new approach,” Jim Green, the leader of NASA’s planetary science program, said during the press conference.

NASA could have propelled Cassini to some other planet — perhaps Uranus or Neptune. But in 2010, mission managers decided to keep it around Saturn, reasoning they could squeeze more science out of the mission there. However, this effectively doomed the spacecraft to a fiery death.

Cassini’s death spiral will officially begin on April 22, 2017. That’s when it will, for the last time, fly by Titan: an icy moon of Saturn that’s bigger than our own, has a thick atmosphere, seas of liquid methane, and even rain.

Titan’s gravity will slingshot Cassini over Saturn, above the planet’s atmosphere, and — on April 26 — through a narrow void between the planet and the innermost edge of its rings.

“That last ‘kiss goodbye’ will put Cassini into Saturn,” Maize said. “This is a roller coaster ride. We’re going in, and we are not coming out — it’s a one-way trip.”

Cassini’s science-packed finale

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NASA/JPL-CaltechAn illustration of Saturn’s internal structure.

The void between Saturn and its rings is about 1,200 miles wide, or roughly the distance from northern Washington state to the southern tip of California.

“As we’re skimming close to the planet, we’ll have the best views ever of the poles of the planet,” Linda Spilker, a Cassini project scientist and a planetary scientist at NASA JPL, said during the press briefing. “We’ll see the giant hurricanes at the north and south poles.”

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute; Jason Major/Lights in the DarkSaturn’s hexagon-shaped jet stream at the planet’s north pole.

During its final orbits above Saturn, Cassini will get its closest-ever views of the hexagon-shaped feature of Saturn’s north pole, which Spilker said is “two Earth diameters across” yet poorly understood.

“Perhaps by getting close with Cassini, we’ll answer the question, ‘What keeps the hexagon there in this particular shape?'” she said.

Spilker said Cassini will also photograph the auroras of Saturn’s poles, measure how massive the planet’s rings are, “taste” the icy material they’re made of, and even probe deep below its thick clouds to see how big its rocky core is.

Sensitive magnetic and gravitational measurements that Cassini couldn’t make before may also answer lingering questions about the internal structure of Saturn, including how big its rocky core is, plus how fast a shell of metallic hydrogen around it spins.

“How fast is Saturn rotating?” Spilker asked. “If there’s just a slight tilt to the magnetic field, then it will wobble around and give us the length of a day.”

Hours before it takes its final plunge on September 15, 2017, Cassini will beam back its last batch of images — then prepare for the end.

The fiery end of a long-time robotic friend

Cassini is a 2.78-ton robot with delicate instruments that was not designed to ram into icy ring material at 70,000 mph. It also wasn’t made to plunge into the thick atmosphere of a gas giant and live to tell the tale.

Nevertheless, scientists behind the mission say they are going to do their best to shield its instruments from damage and keep the data flowing until the moment it dies.

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NASAThe Cassini spacecraft being prepared for flight in 1997.

They will do this primarily by using the cone-shaped primary antenna as a shield to protect cameras, magnetometers, and more.

“If we get surprised, well, we’ve got a bunch of contingency plans … We’ll milk the best out of this,” Maize said. He added that even if icy bits take out Cassini’s ability to talk to Earth, the spacecraft “will still finish out exactly where we planned, but we’ll have a little less science than we hoped for.”

When Cassini begins its final plunge, it will use its last propellant to fight atmospheric drag and keep the antenna pointed at Earth. During that time, it will “taste” the composition of Saturn’s atmosphere as it descends into the gases, broadcasting its readings in real-time back to satellite dishes on Earth.

But the measurements won’t last long.

“It will break apart, it will melt, it will vaporise, and it will become a very part of the planet it left Earth 20 years ago to explore,” Maize said.

While members of the Cassini team said they’re looking forward to the Grand Finale, they weren’t without remorse.

“It’s really going to be hard to say goodbye … to this plucky, capable little spacecraft that has returned all of this great science,” Spilker said. We’ve flown together a long time.”

NOW WATCH: NASA released the most detailed images of Saturn ever taken — and they’re stunning

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Space boffins in shock alien life announcement on 'water world'

Space boffins in shock alien life announcement on 'water world'

A HUGE announcement was made today on alien life in our galaxy – it is the first time another planet has been found with an “atmosphere”.

Scientists have found an 'atmosphere' on a planet

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Scientists have found an 'atmosphere' on another planet for the first time

The Earth-sized planet orbiting a dim star 39 light years away has a hazy atmosphere which could indicate the presence of a “water world”, scientists claim.

And the planet, named as GJ 1132b, may have a hot, steamy atmosphere perfect for harbouring life.

It discovered back in 2015 but this is the first time astronomers have been able to detect an atmosphere surrounding a small rocky planet.

The planet, GJ 1132b, is a 'water world'

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ALIEN: The planet, GJ 1132b, is believed to be a 'water world' which could host life

Before this they have only been able to detect atmospheres of giant gas planets which are not likely to have life.

Now a new generation of powerful telescopes is making the search for life outside out Solar System much more likely to end up with success.

The “super-Earth” planet was observed as it passed in front of a cool red dwarf star, blocking out some of the star’s light.

They are now hope to analyse the chemical composition of exoplanet atmospheres to yield tell-tale signs of life.

Ozone, derived from oxygen released by plants, can support life as well as methane.

Scientists are also hoping to discover new planetary systems like ours to find alien life.

Trappist-1 has seven Earth-like planets orbiting a star similar to our Sun.

This comes as it was revealed NASA astronauts believe in aliens and that they are in contact with us.

And a black hole mystery was solved by scientists.

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If we finally find alien life, will it be anything like the movies?

If we finally find alien life, will it be anything like the movies?

 

Last night's Stargazing Live revealed four newly-discovered planets orbiting a distant star. Discoveries like this are hugely exciting because they hold out the tantalising prospect of planets harbouring alien life.

But if we ever do encounter aliens, what will they be like? Have we been well prepared, or led down an intergalactic garden path, by all the little green men that litter the history of cinema?

The two co-hosts of ABC podcast Cosmic Vertigo, Dr Amanda Bauer and Dr Alan Duffy, are astronomers but also sci-fi fans. In the latest episode, they discuss the search for alien life.

So we asked them, as scientists: What is your all-time favourite movie alien?

Amanda: E.T. Full stop.

Alan: Oh, come on! Really?

Amanda: Look, I think a test of a good sci-fi film is how well it ages, and while I'm slightly hesitant to admit this — I watched E.T. recently and cried. And laughed. And got goosebumps all the way through and felt nostalgic for all those times I watched it as a kid. Sure, it's far-fetched that an alien species would look so similar to humans and be so incredibly cute... It's just a great movie!

And then there's WALL-E, who looks oddly similar to E.T. now I think about it. Maybe I just like the friendly ones, instead of all those aliens who visit Earth only to have humans jump to evil conclusions and inevitable misunderstandings and then OMG THEY'RE GOING TO DESTROY US, WE MUST DESTROY THEM FIRST.

Alan: WALL-E is not even an alien.

Amanda: I guess you're right. Fine! I'm clearly not the sci-fi expert you are...

Alan: I'm definitely a fan. And I think it's an incredible way to present great science to many millions of people. There are wonderful examples of films getting the science right.

Take Gravity, Interstellar and 2001: A Space Odyssey. They didn't get absolutely everything right, but some of their most accurate scenes are also some of the most engaging. Wonderful cinematic moments and wonderful scientific demonstrations at the same time.

Like all the micro-gravity scenes in Gravity — full of the tension of just being out of reach, powerless to propel yourself forward without being able to interact with another object. This is beautifully realised Newtonian dynamics! And in a setting that not even Isaac Newton could have imagined.

Amanda: Wait, am I allowed to talk about where Gravity got it WRONG now? They rendered the Hubble Space Telescope and the Soyuz Spacecraft beautifully — but the chance of the astronauts cruising between the two spacecraft, whose orbits above Earth differ by 140 kilometres in height, with nothing but jet-pack propulsion, and then just grabbing on?! Nope. Not possible.

Alan: OK then, let's talk Interstellar. The modelling they used to depict that black hole was so involved that a new effect was noticed: the halo-like warping of the glowing accretion disk around the black hole. It was written up in a scientific journal by the movie's science advisor Professor Kip Thorne!

Amanda: Yeah, that was cool. My first university summer research project started by reading Kip Thorne's Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy. The book started with a short sci-fi story about what you would experience if you flew your spacecraft near a small black hole versus a supermassive black hole, and then continued by explaining all the physics and general relativity that lead to why we think those things actually exist. It was awesome.

 

Alan: And what about the ultimate masterpiece? 2001: A Space Odyssey. The rotating spacecraft that mimics Earth-like gravity because of its centripetal acceleration, or the wondrous silence punctuated by moments where air pressure (and hence sound) return; they all add to the film, while faithfully exploring scientific concepts in front of a huge audience.

Amanda: Love the music, love the ideas... But this film also creeped me out about artificial intelligence in a way that I'm still not completely comfortable with!

Anyway — let's get this back to aliens. If you're such an expert, what's YOUR favourite move alien?

Alan: That's tricky. Space is sometimes explored really well in the movies, but the fictional aliens that live there are usually much less convincing.

The common plot line, where aliens are so advanced as to travel hundreds of trillions of kilometres between the stars and then invade us, is just bizarre! Why harvest the resources on Earth when there is so much more available — and already in bite-sized chunks — lying in the asteroid belt?

Amanda: True. And you guys, in your enormous ships, flew right past all those asteroids to get here!

Alan: I'm looking at you, Independence Day. Don't get me wrong, I loved it! Just not for the science. And it's a shame they never made a sequel. EVER. Independence Day 2 never happened.

Amanda: Even if they did decide to come and fill their alien bellies on Earth — would it do them any good? And why is it always us, and not any of rest of the life on Earth? Why do they never start with some nice fruit or vegetables?

Alan: That's true. The idea that the aliens can somehow use our bodies is incredibly unlikely.

Considering that we share most of our DNA with life on Earth, and yet are violently sick (at best) if we try to eat almost any of it — then how would an alien from space, which shares none of that DNA, possibly be able to eat us? Let alone, as in Aliens, go one step further and use us as a host, or even somehow take DNA characteristics from that host! Remember the dog-alien?

Amanda: But there are some great movies about aliens. Like the ones where we don't actually meet each other! After all, the distances are so vast that our bodies probably won't make the trip.

Alan: Unless Interstellar is right and wormholes exist! And, sure, they're technically allowed by physics, just... highly suspect.

Amanda: But instead of meeting face-to-face, maybe we will communicate. Like in Contact — I love that movie. It's a wonderful description of the way we might uncover such a signal, and it's a great exploration of the range of responses from the public too.

Contact came out when I first started studying physics and I constantly got told, "You remind me of that lady in the movie with the headsets..." Jodie Foster? "YES!"

But by the time I started teaching, the students were too young to have seen that movie. Sad.

Alan: Just last year we had an update on that style of movie — Arrival, which I completely loved. It has a strong female lead scientist, and a great depiction of how diverse communication can be. Also it shows how challenging it will be to recognise it, if we do hear anything with our radio telescopes!

And we are certainly listening. Telescopes around the world, including the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, are looking for just this sort of signal as part of the Breakthrough Listen project. The science is finally catching up with the science fiction.

Amanda: Maybe our search for life in the universe, in reality and in the movies, is more about understanding what makes it possible here on Earth — and gaining insight into ourselves.

Alan: Totally. When we explore space and contact aliens in film, what we're really projecting onto the big screen is us.

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Astrohotography by Karl Muller, Ari Vlora, Tamar Valley Astronomy Group, Andrew Leggett, Giles Alexander, Chris Phillips, Rod Evans, Ian Stewart, Greg Gibbs, Gillian Rayment, Ben Swanson and Marty Matuszewski.

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If we finally find alien life, will it be anything like the movies?

If we finally find alien life, will it be anything like the movies?

 

Last night's Stargazing Live revealed four newly-discovered planets orbiting a distant star. Discoveries like this are hugely exciting because they hold out the tantalising prospect of planets harbouring alien life.

But if we ever do encounter aliens, what will they be like? Have we been well prepared, or led down an intergalactic garden path, by all the little green men that litter the history of cinema?

The two co-hosts of ABC podcast Cosmic Vertigo, Dr Amanda Bauer and Dr Alan Duffy, are astronomers but also sci-fi fans. In the latest episode, they discuss the search for alien life.

So we asked them, as scientists: What is your all-time favourite movie alien?

Amanda: E.T. Full stop.

Alan: Oh, come on! Really?

Amanda: Look, I think a test of a good sci-fi film is how well it ages, and while I'm slightly hesitant to admit this — I watched E.T. recently and cried. And laughed. And got goosebumps all the way through and felt nostalgic for all those times I watched it as a kid. Sure, it's far-fetched that an alien species would look so similar to humans and be so incredibly cute... It's just a great movie!

And then there's WALL-E, who looks oddly similar to E.T. now I think about it. Maybe I just like the friendly ones, instead of all those aliens who visit Earth only to have humans jump to evil conclusions and inevitable misunderstandings and then OMG THEY'RE GOING TO DESTROY US, WE MUST DESTROY THEM FIRST.

Alan: WALL-E is not even an alien.

Amanda: I guess you're right. Fine! I'm clearly not the sci-fi expert you are...

Alan: I'm definitely a fan. And I think it's an incredible way to present great science to many millions of people. There are wonderful examples of films getting the science right.

Take Gravity, Interstellar and 2001: A Space Odyssey. They didn't get absolutely everything right, but some of their most accurate scenes are also some of the most engaging. Wonderful cinematic moments and wonderful scientific demonstrations at the same time.

Like all the micro-gravity scenes in Gravity — full of the tension of just being out of reach, powerless to propel yourself forward without being able to interact with another object. This is beautifully realised Newtonian dynamics! And in a setting that not even Isaac Newton could have imagined.

Amanda: Wait, am I allowed to talk about where Gravity got it WRONG now? They rendered the Hubble Space Telescope and the Soyuz Spacecraft beautifully — but the chance of the astronauts cruising between the two spacecraft, whose orbits above Earth differ by 140 kilometres in height, with nothing but jet-pack propulsion, and then just grabbing on?! Nope. Not possible.

Alan: OK then, let's talk Interstellar. The modelling they used to depict that black hole was so involved that a new effect was noticed: the halo-like warping of the glowing accretion disk around the black hole. It was written up in a scientific journal by the movie's science advisor Professor Kip Thorne!

Amanda: Yeah, that was cool. My first university summer research project started by reading Kip Thorne's Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy. The book started with a short sci-fi story about what you would experience if you flew your spacecraft near a small black hole versus a supermassive black hole, and then continued by explaining all the physics and general relativity that lead to why we think those things actually exist. It was awesome.

 

Alan: And what about the ultimate masterpiece? 2001: A Space Odyssey. The rotating spacecraft that mimics Earth-like gravity because of its centripetal acceleration, or the wondrous silence punctuated by moments where air pressure (and hence sound) return; they all add to the film, while faithfully exploring scientific concepts in front of a huge audience.

Amanda: Love the music, love the ideas... But this film also creeped me out about artificial intelligence in a way that I'm still not completely comfortable with!

Anyway — let's get this back to aliens. If you're such an expert, what's YOUR favourite move alien?

Alan: That's tricky. Space is sometimes explored really well in the movies, but the fictional aliens that live there are usually much less convincing.

The common plot line, where aliens are so advanced as to travel hundreds of trillions of kilometres between the stars and then invade us, is just bizarre! Why harvest the resources on Earth when there is so much more available — and already in bite-sized chunks — lying in the asteroid belt?

Amanda: True. And you guys, in your enormous ships, flew right past all those asteroids to get here!

Alan: I'm looking at you, Independence Day. Don't get me wrong, I loved it! Just not for the science. And it's a shame they never made a sequel. EVER. Independence Day 2 never happened.

Amanda: Even if they did decide to come and fill their alien bellies on Earth — would it do them any good? And why is it always us, and not any of rest of the life on Earth? Why do they never start with some nice fruit or vegetables?

Alan: That's true. The idea that the aliens can somehow use our bodies is incredibly unlikely.

Considering that we share most of our DNA with life on Earth, and yet are violently sick (at best) if we try to eat almost any of it — then how would an alien from space, which shares none of that DNA, possibly be able to eat us? Let alone, as in Aliens, go one step further and use us as a host, or even somehow take DNA characteristics from that host! Remember the dog-alien?

Amanda: But there are some great movies about aliens. Like the ones where we don't actually meet each other! After all, the distances are so vast that our bodies probably won't make the trip.

Alan: Unless Interstellar is right and wormholes exist! And, sure, they're technically allowed by physics, just... highly suspect.

Amanda: But instead of meeting face-to-face, maybe we will communicate. Like in Contact — I love that movie. It's a wonderful description of the way we might uncover such a signal, and it's a great exploration of the range of responses from the public too.

Contact came out when I first started studying physics and I constantly got told, "You remind me of that lady in the movie with the headsets..." Jodie Foster? "YES!"

But by the time I started teaching, the students were too young to have seen that movie. Sad.

Alan: Just last year we had an update on that style of movie — Arrival, which I completely loved. It has a strong female lead scientist, and a great depiction of how diverse communication can be. Also it shows how challenging it will be to recognise it, if we do hear anything with our radio telescopes!

And we are certainly listening. Telescopes around the world, including the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, are looking for just this sort of signal as part of the Breakthrough Listen project. The science is finally catching up with the science fiction.

Amanda: Maybe our search for life in the universe, in reality and in the movies, is more about understanding what makes it possible here on Earth — and gaining insight into ourselves.

Alan: Totally. When we explore space and contact aliens in film, what we're really projecting onto the big screen is us.

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Astrohotography by Karl Muller, Ari Vlora, Tamar Valley Astronomy Group, Andrew Leggett, Giles Alexander, Chris Phillips, Rod Evans, Ian Stewart, Greg Gibbs, Gillian Rayment, Ben Swanson and Marty Matuszewski.

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Virgin Galactic Aiming for 1st Spaceflight This Year, Branson Says

Virgin Galactic Aiming for 1st Spaceflight This Year, Branson Says

Virgin Galactic Aiming for 1st Spaceflight This Year, Branson Says
Virgin Galactic's second SpaceShipTwo vehicle, known as VSS Unity, soars on its first-ever glide flight on Dec. 3, 2016.
Credit: Virgin Galactic

Virgin Galactic should be ready to launch its first flight to suborbital space later this year, company founder Sir Richard Branson said.

"I think I'd be very disappointed if we're not into space with a test flight by the end of the year and I'm not into space myself next year and the program isn't well underway by the end of next year," Branson told London-based newspaper The Daily Telegraph, breaking an unofficial Virgin Galactic rule about giving dates when discussing the company's spaceflight plans.

Branson has said that he, and some of his family members, will be aboard Virgin Galactic's first passenger spaceflight.

Virgin Galactic aims to fly customers aboard the six-passenger SpaceShipTwo, at a cost of $250,000 per seat. A plane called WhiteKnightTwo will carry SpaceShipTwo to an altitude of 50,000 feet (15,000 meters), then drop it; at that point, the spacecraft's onboard rocket engine will kick on, blasting the vehicle to suborbital space.

Virgin Galactic's first SpaceShipTwo vehicle, called VSS Enterprise, performed four rocket-powered test flights in Earth's atmosphere. But the last of these flights, which took place on Oct. 31, 2014, ended in disaster; the space plane broke apart in midair after its "feathering" descent system deployed too early. Co-pilot Michael Alsbury was killed, and pilot Peter Siebold was seriously injured.

Virgin Galactic regrouped after the tragic accident. The company unveiled its second SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, to the public in February 2016; the vehicle has since performed several unpowered "glide flights" and should be ready to begin the rocket-powered phase of its test campaign soon, Virgin representatives have said.

"The test program is going really well, and as long as we've got our brave test pilots pushing it to the limit, we think that after whatever it is, 12 years of hard work, we're nearly there," Branson told The Telegraph.

Read the full story at The Daily Telegraph here.

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New Model: Nearby Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e May Be Just Right for Life

New Model: Nearby Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e May Be Just Right for Life

New Model: Nearby Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e May Be Just Right for Life
A new model suggests that TRAPPIST-1e, which has liquid water on its surface, is the most likely in the seven-planet system to be habitable.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Tucked between a boiled-away desert and a giant snowball, an alien world called TRAPPIST-1e may be the only habitable planet in a newly discovered batch of seven, according to a new climate model.

When researchers announced the discovery of seven planets that closely orbit the cool red star TRAPPIST-1 in February, there was a rush to learn more about the little rocky worlds and find out if any might be habitable. One of the first scientists to model the worlds' potential climates in depth was Eric Wolf, a researcher at University of Colorado, Boulder. His model, along with others still to come, will paint a clearer picture of what the system's planets could actually be like.

Wolf modeled three planets around TRAPPIST-1 and tested different potential atmospheres to see whether any let liquid water exist on a planet's surface. He found that, in his simulation, only one of the planets listed as potentially habitable would be able to keep liquid water. [Exoplanet Tour: Meet the 7 Earth-Size Planets of TRAPPIST-1]

In particular, Wolf investigated planets d, e and f around TRAPPIST-1, which lies about 39 light-years from Earth. He found that planet d orbits too close to its star, building up a thick atmosphere of water vapor that heats the planet even further and boils the rest of the water off — a runaway greenhouse effect that guarantees the planet winds up too hot and dry to host life over time. Planet f, by contrast, is too far from its star, making it a snowball; any surface water would be frozen solid, and in the model, no combination of gases in the planet's atmosphere seemed to keep it warm enough, Wolf said.

"So that leaves us with planet e as the one real chance of having a temperate, habitable, Earth-like climate," Wolf told Space.com.

To reach that conclusion, Wolf used a modified atmospheric model originally calibrated to simulate Earth's climate. TRAPPIST-1's planets, though Earth-size, exist in very different conditions than Earth does — the seven planets huddle close to their ultracool red dwarf star, and have full orbits lasting between 1.5 and 20 days (compared with Earth's 365.26 days). Because they are so close to their star, the planets likely orbit with one side always facing inward. The star gives off different wavelengths of light than the sun does; TRAPPIST-1 is much redder, and emits longer wavelengths, including those in the near-infrared. 

Wolf used the Janus supercomputer at the University of Colorado and the Hyak supercomputer at the University of Washington to make his calculations. His article has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, and in the meantime, he posted the results on ArXiv.org.

A new model simulated three planets around TRAPPIST-1 — d, e and f — with atmospheres consisting of various gas quantities and compositions to see whether liquid water could persist on their surfaces. Here, the planets' surface temperatures, water contained in clouds, thermal energy released and reflected light are graphed for different potential atmospheres. Planet f is always frozen and planet d is too hot for water, but depending on the atmosphere planet e can be cold, temperate or hot and still retain surface water.
A new model simulated three planets around TRAPPIST-1 — d, e and f — with atmospheres consisting of various gas quantities and compositions to see whether liquid water could persist on their surfaces. Here, the planets' surface temperatures, water contained in clouds, thermal energy released and reflected light are graphed for different potential atmospheres. Planet f is always frozen and planet d is too hot for water, but depending on the atmosphere planet e can be cold, temperate or hot and still retain surface water.
Credit: Eric Wolf/UC Boulder

For this analysis, Wolf assumed that water was freely available on the surface of the planets. He found that with an Earth-like atmosphere, about 20 percent of planet e's surface isn't icy — it would look like an eyeball, with a warm, melted spot facing the star — and that you could duplicate Earth's temperature by adding much more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere (or, various combinations of nitrogen and carbon dioxide could offer that insulation).

To compensate for planet f's distance from the star and make it warm enough for liquid water, he tried adding about 30 bars pressure of carbon dioxide — approximately 30 times the pressure of Earth's entire atmosphere at sea level. However, planet f would still be too cold to host life — so cold, in fact, that the gas would start condensing and fall out of the atmosphere. 

The farther-out planets would fare even more poorly, freezing any available water and becoming snowballs as well. Planet d would be too hot to hold water regardless of its atmosphere's thickness and composition, according to the model, and so would the closer-in planets. Although the original paper announcing the system a month ago, published in the journal Nature, posited that planets e, f and g could host liquid oceans, Wolf's more complex model suggests that f and g would be too bitterly cold.

"The main take-home point is that TRAPPIST-[1]e is the real winner here," Wolf said. But he's eagerly awaiting more models; as with modeling climate change on Earth, it will take many different techniques to come to a consensus about which planets' atmospheres could allow for liquid water.

"We need to intercompare between numerous models to come to a consensus that our models are doing the right thing, and that we can get some convergence of our results to make judgments about these planets," he added.

There are many variables that affect a planet's environment, and various models handle those variables in different ways. Wolf's model folds in what effect different gases in the atmosphere would have, the cooling impact of clouds and the way radiation heats the planet, among many other considerations. It also simplifies the way the ocean works; in reality, ocean currents could reduce the sea-ice coverage of the planet by transporting heat from the warmer dayside to the colder nightside. Other climate models might make different choices for each of those calculations, and they're always improving as researchers learn more about how a planet's environment works. [TRAPPIST-1 is 'Most Incredible Star System to Date' - 5 Amazing Facts]

For TRAPPIST-1d, e and f, Wolf modeled the temperature across the planets while trying out particular atmospheres. For planet e, he tested cold, temperate and hot scenarios. Then, he graphed the heat that would be released from each planet with a given atmosphere, as well as the brightness of light reflected off the surface of the planet in each part of the orbit. Researchers will be able to compare those models to real data as it comes in.

"If we can get these observations and compare them to our model results, we might be able to make some estimates of what the atmosphere of the planet is like," Wolf said. Making these models in advance helps researchers prepare for that data, and also suggests which might be most productive to investigate further, he added. In the future, he and his colleagues plan to simulate the spectra of light that would come back from the planets as well, letting researchers match future observations with particular atmospheres.

"It's a really nice paper," said Anthony Del Genio, a researcher at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies who was not involved in the study. "To my knowledge, Eric [Wolf] is the first one to do this type of study for the TRAPPIST-1 system — certainly, he's the first one to do a 3D study." 

Del Genio is referring to a 3D climate model, which portions off the planet into vertical columns and tracks how conditions change across the columns, whereas a one-dimensional model examines just one column of atmosphere and surface. 3D models can incorporate more nuance in natural phenomena, and can handle differences in the dayside and nightside of the planet, which is particularly important for orbs like the TRAPPIST-1 planets that always face the same side toward the star.

Del Genio is looking forward to what other models might reveal, particularly details about planets d and f. Various treatments may provide different results for the planets' potential habitability, he said. But for now, Wolf's study offers a good suggestion of what to look for as researchers turn more powerful telescopes on the star system.

"He's really laid the groundwork for characterization of this system, and I'd say, if you are an astronomer thinking of observing the TRAPPIST system to characterize the atmosphere, that as a result of this study, you know which planet you want to go after first," Del Genio told Space.com.

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

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Alien-jager die werkte aan ‘geheimzinnig project’ verdwijnt op mysterieuze wijze in Brazilië

Alien-jager die werkte aan 'geheimzinnig project' verdwijnt op mysterieuze wijze in Brazilië

Alien-jager die werkte aan ‘geheimzinnig project’ verdwijnt op mysterieuze wijze in Brazilië

In Brazilië is een alien-jager op mysterieuze wijze verdwenen. In zijn slaapkamer zijn vreemde codes en een standbeeld van een 16e-eeuwse filosoof gevonden.

Bruno Borges (24) verdween vorige week maandag terwijl hij werkte aan een geheimzinnig project, schrijft de Britse Daily Mirror.

De verdwijning van de psychologiestudent is ondertussen wereldnieuws. Velen geloven dat hij is ontvoerd door aliens.

Standbeeld

Zijn slaapkamer staat volledig in het teken van buitenaards leven. De muren van zijn kamer staan vol mysterieuze teksten en de vloer is bedekt met vreemde tekens die worden geassocieerd met satanisme en de Illuminati.

Alien-jager die werkte aan 'geheimzinnig project' verdwijnt op mysterieuze wijze in Brazilië

Standbeeld van Bruno

Er staan onder andere Bijbelteksten en uitspraken van Leonardo da Vinci op de muren.

In de kamer staat ook een enorm standbeeld van de Italiaanse filosoof Giordano Bruno, dat hij enkele weken geleden voor een paar duizend euro zou hebben gekocht.

Boekenreeks

Bruno was één van de eerste vrije denkers die het bestaan van buitenaards leven voorspelde. Sommigen suggereerden dat Borges zijn werk probeerde af te maken.

Familieleden zeiden dat Borges hen constant vroeg zijn nieuwste geheimzinnige project te financieren.

Hij wilde alleen zeggen dat hij een boekenreeks schreef die ‘de mensheid op een positieve manier zou veranderen’.

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Alien-jager die werkte aan 'geheimzinnig project' verdwijnt op mysterieuze wijze in Brazilië

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Zijn vader, Athos Borges, zei dat hij zijn zoon op 27 maart voor het laatst heeft gezien. Over de verdwijning is verder nog weinig concreets bekend.

“Hij is nog nooit eerder weggegaan,” zei vader Athos. “Hij heeft niets meegenomen.”

Moeder Denise vertelde aan de krant Gaucho dat het gezin samen had geluncht en dat er niets aan de hand leek.

Zijn zus Gabriela zei dat haar broer zich vaak opsloot in zijn slaapkamer.

Ontcijferd

Een Braziliaanse computerexpert heeft een passage uit één van de boeken ‘ontcijferd’:

Het is gemakkelijk om datgene te accepteren wat je sinds je jeugd is aangeleerd. Het is als volwassene moeilijk om te begrijpen dat wat je geleerd hebt onjuist is. Je bent overgeleverd aan overtuigingen die diep geworteld zijn in de massa.

De politie doet momenteel onderzoek naar de verdwijning van Borges.

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ZE WORDEN MEESTAL PAS OPGEMERKT ALS HET LAAT IS ( VIDEO )

ZE WORDEN MEESTAL PAS OPGEMERKT ALS HET LAAT IS ( VIDEO )

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Enkele dagen geleden passeerde een asteroïde de aarde op ongeveer de helft van de afstand van ons tot de maan. 

Dat niet alleen, deze asteroïde werd pas enkele dagen daarvoor opgemerkt en vaak worden ze helemaal niet gezien. 




Volgens de Wikipedia is de afstand tot de maan 384.400 kilometer. In het Engels gebruiken ze deze afstand als rekeneenheid en wordt die genoemd LD (Lunar Distance). 

Asteroïden passeren de aarde veelal op behoorlijke afstanden, maar soms komen ze in ruimtetermen toch akelig dichtbij de aarde en passeren ze dan tussen de aarde en de maan. 

De afgelopen dagen hadden we ook weer een dergelijke gebeurtenis toen twee asteroïden de aarde passeerden op een afstand van gelijk aan en minder dan 1 LD. 

De eerste vloog langs op 2 april met de codenaam 2017 Fu102 op ongeveer een halve LD, minder dan 200.000 kilometer verwijderd van de aarde. Het was alweer de veertiende asteroïde in dit nog prille jaar die op een afstand van minder dan 1 LD langs de aarde schoot. 

Een dag later passeerde een andere met de codenaam 2017 FT102 de aarde op een afstand van 1 LD. 

Wat behoorlijk zorgelijk is, is dat deze objecten pas vier dagen voordat ze de aarde passeerden werden ontdekt. 

 

Bovengenoemde asteroïden worden eigenlijk niet eens meegeteld in de categorie “mogelijk gevaarlijke asteroïden”. Om als zodanig geclassificeerd te worden moeten ze minimaal 100 meter in doorsnede zijn en niet enkele meters zoals bovengenoemde exemplaren. 

Wanneer een asteroïde een doorsnede heeft van meer dan 100 meter en de aarde passeert op een afstand van minder dan 19,5 LD, dan spreekt men van een PHA (potentially hazardous asteroid, mogelijk gevaarlijke asteroïde). 

Een dergelijke PHA zal de aarde passeren op 19 april aanstaande en dan hebben we het over een asteroïde met een doorsnee van ongeveer een kilometer met de codenaam 2014 JO25 welke op een afstand van 4,8 LD zal langs vliegen. Deze asteroïde is in 400 jaar niet zo dichtbij de aarde geweest. 

Maar, dit zijn niet de echt gevaarlijke objecten. Het zijn asteroïden die bekend zijn en waarvan de baan vrij nauwkeurig te berekenen is. 

Het gevaar zit hem wat ons betreft veel meer in de kleinere asteroïden die op het laatste moment worden opgemerkt of helemaal niet. De kleineren die ook onze atmosfeer binnendringen en soms gewoon opbranden, maar die ook als een meteoriet op aarde kunnen inslaan.

Een meteoriet is het deel van een meteoroïde of planetoïde dat op de aarde inslaat na vanuit de ruimte door de atmosfeer te zijn gevallen. Tijdens de tocht door de dampkring wordt het materiaal sterk afgeremd en zeer heet. Dit kan als een meteoor te zien zijn. In wezen is een meteoriet puin uit de ruimte. 

Ook kennen we dit verschijnsel vanwege de enorme explosie die zich enkele jaren geleden voordeed in Rusland: 

Op 15 februari 2013 ontplofte een meteoroïde nabij Tsjeljabinsk in het Russische Oeralgebied. Rond 9.15 uur plaatselijke tijd werden aldaar verschillende explosies gehoord en werd er een vuurbal in de hemel waargenomen. 

Op 20 maart gebeurde er iets dergelijks boven Zweden, maar zonder dat deze explosie gevolgen had zoals in Rusland. 

Vanuit heel Zweden kwamen berichten van mensen die deze gebeurtenis waarnamen. 

 

Enkele dagen daarvoor, op 15 maart, zorgde een meteoriet voor de nodige beroering in Pakistan. Het voorval gebeurde in de bergachtige streken in het noorden van het land waar bewoners in paniek raakten nadat ze een bizar licht hadden waargenomen, vergezeld van een aantal explosies. 

Volgens één van de inwoners uit de plaats Gilgit, Javed Iqbal: “Ik zag een licht door de lucht flitsen en toen volgden er meerder explosies. Het voelde alsof er iets boven op mijn huis was terechtgekomen. Samen met mijn gezin rende ik naar buiten en zag dat ook alle buren uit hun huizen waren gekomen”. 

 

In een eerder artikel op deze website onlangs werd duidelijk hoe vooral de grote vuurbollen in de lucht jaar na jaar in aantallen toenemen. 

Meteoren kunnen eigenlijk worden ingedeeld in vier verschillende soorten: vallende sterren, vuurbollen, bolides en superbolides. 

Vooral de laatste twee zijn gebeurtenissen die je niet wilt meemaken. Deze ontploffen in de lucht net zoals Tsjeljabinsk met een enorme knal en een bijbehorende lichtflits. 

De energie die bij een dergelijke ontploffing zoals Tsjelnabinsk vrij komt, staat gelijk aan 30 keer die van de atoombom op Hiroshima en de lichtflits is 30 keer feller dan de zon. Bij die gebeurtenissen raakten dan ook 7.200 gebouwen beschadigd en 1.500 mensen gewond. Veel van die verwondingen hadden te maken met de gevolgen van rondvliegend glas of brandwonden. 

In het algemeen kan je stellen dat hoe meer mensen een vuurbol waarnemen, des te groter en gevaarlijker zal deze blijken te zijn. Masters heeft dan ook als definitie van een enorme vuurbal genomen het criterium dat deze door minstens 100 verschillende mensen moet zijn gemeld. 

Wanneer we voor dat soort gebeurtenissen wederom kijken naar een grafiek van wat er na die bewuste decembermaand is gebeurd, dan lijkt verder commentaar overbodig.

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Als je kijkt naar de cijfers per maand, dan zie je dat het grootste aantal van dit soort gebeurtenissen zich heeft voorgedaan in het eerste kwartaal van dit jaar. Ook Tsjelnabinsk gebeurde in de maand februari.


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Maar, zelfs als ze wel worden opgemerkt en ze zouden een mogelijk gevaar voor de aarde opleveren, dan nog zullen wij of niet of als allerlaatsten worden gewaarschuwd. 

In 2005 is er klaarblijkelijk een asteroïde rakelings langs de aarde gevlogen, waarbij de aarde ternauwernood aan een ramp is ontsnapt. Overheden en militairen waren op de hoogte, alleen wij burgers wisten nergens van. 

Voor een volledig verslag van deze gebeurtenis verwijzen wij naar een eerder artikel. Nu kunnen we niet veel doen aan bedreigingen uit de ruimte, maar wanneer er een fractie van het bedrag dat nu wordt uitgegeven aan wapens wordt besteed aan het beschermen van de aarde en haar bewoners, dan zou de toekomst er wellicht heel wat rooskleuriger uit zien.

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Unacknowledged – UFO Documentary

Unacknowledged – UFO Documentary

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“Unacknowledged” focuses on the historic files of the Disclosure Project and how UFO secrecy has been ruthlessly enforced – and why. The best evidence for Extraterrestrial contact, dating back decades, is presented with direct top-secret witness testimony, documents and UFO footage, 80% of which has never been revealed anywhere else. The behind-the-scenes research and high level meetings convened by Dr. Steven Greer will expose the degree of illegal, covert operations at the core of UFO secrecy. From briefings with the CIA Director, top Pentagon Generals and Admirals, to the briefing of President Obama via senior advisor John Podesta, chairman of the Hillary Clinton Campaign – we take the viewer behind the veil of secrecy and into the corridors of real power where the UFO secrets reside. The viewer will learn that a silent coup d’état has occurred dating back to the 1950s and that the Congress, the President and other world leaders have been sidelined by criminal elements within the Military-Industrial-Financial complex.
Director: Michael Mazzola
Narrator: Giancarlo Esposito
Producers: Steven M. Greer MD, DGZ60, Jim Martin, Stephen Peek, Grant Ibrahim, Chris Crescitelli
Writers: Steven M. Greer, MD
Distributor: The Orchard
Genre: Documentary

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