MYSTERIOUS: ‘WOW! SIGNAL’ CASE BACK OPEN AS SCIENTISTS RULE OUT COMET THEORY!

The universe is filled with mysteries and as the curious humans that we are, we must seek answers about the nature of our vast cosmos, which will eventually tell us who we really are and why do we even exist.

One mystery that is raising countless questions among space enthusiasts is the famous Wow! signal. The signal was picked up on August 15 1977, by astronomer Jerry R Ehman using SETI’s Big Ear radio telescope. 

This Wow! signal mystery was said to have been solved recently as scientists checked the high possibility of it having originated from the collision of two comets, the 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2.

But the other half isn't to convinced of that claim, even the author of this find suspects that it's something else entirely ruling out the Comet theory.

What triggered the mysterious Wow! signal? Was is the work of extraterrestrial entities?

Watch the following video to know more!  

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Researchers advocate statistical approach to search for Earth-like planets

"The nature of proof should not be: 'Can we point at a planet and say, yes or no, that's the planet hosting alien life," said Jacob Bean, associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UChicago. "It's a statisical exercise. What can we say for an ensemble of planets about the frequency of the existence of habitable environments, or the frequency of the existence of life on those planets?"

The standard approach of researching exoplanets, or planets that orbit distant stars, has entailed studying small numbers of objects to determine if they have the right gases in the appropriate quantities and ratios to indicate the existence of life. But in a recent paper with co-authors Dorian Abbot and Eliza Kempton in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Bean describes the need "to think about the techniques and approaches of astronomy in this game—not as planetary scientists studying exoplanets."

"Nature has provided us with huge numbers of planetary systems," said Kempton, an assistant professor of physics at Grinnell College in Iowa. "If we survey a large number of planets with less detailed measurements, we can still get a statistical sense for how prevalent habitable environments are in our galaxy. This would give us a basis for future, more detailed surveys."

Kempton and Bean attest to the challenges of making detailed observations of a potentially Earth-like planet. Together they have previously studied the super-Earth known as GJ 1214b, an exoplanet with a mass greater than Earth's but less than gas giants such as Neptune and Uranus. GJ 1214b turned out to be quite cloudy, which prevented them from determining the composition of its atmosphere.

"A large statistical study will allow us to look at many planets," Kempton said. "If any single object proves to be particularly challenging to observe, like GJ 1214b, that won't be a major loss to the observing program on the whole."

Kepler observatory a game-changer

The inspiration for the paper stemmed from Bean's membership on the Science and Technology Definition Team that is assessing the potential for a new space telescope, NASA's proposed Large UV/Optical/Infrared Survey (LUVOIR).

One of LUVOIR's scientific priorities is the search for Earth-like planets. During one team meeting, Bean and his colleagues listed all the properties of a potentially habitable exoplanet that they need to measure and how they would go about obtaining the data. Given the current state of technology, Bean concluded that it's unlikely scientists will be able to confirm an individual exoplanet as suitable for life or whether life is actually there.

Nevertheless, astronomers have gathered an impressive haul of exoplanetary data from NASA's Kepler space observatory, which has operated since 2009.

"Kepler completely changed the game," Bean said. "Instead of talking about a few planets or a few tens of planets, all of a sudden we had a few thousand planet candidates. They were planet candidates because Kepler couldn't definitely prove that the signal it was seeing was due to planets."

The standard approach has been to take additional observations for each candidate to rule out possible false positive scenarios, or to detect the planet with a second technique.

"That's very slow going. One planet at a time, a lot of different observations," Bean noted. But an alternative is to make statistical calculations for the probability of false positives among these thousands of exoplanet candidates. That new approach led directly to a good understanding of the frequency of exoplanets of different sizes. For example, scientists now can say that the frequency of super-Earth-type planets is 15 percent, plus or minus 5 percent.

Role of spectroscopy

Spectroscopic studies play a key role in characterizing exoplanets. This involves determining the composition of a planetary atmosphere by measuring its spectra, the distinctive radiation that gases absorb at their own particular wavelengths. Bean and his co-authors suggest focusing on what can be learned from measuring the spectra of a large ensemble of terrestrial exoplanets.

Spectroscopy may, for example, help exoplanetary researchers verify a phenomenon called the silicate weathering feedback, which acts as a planetary thermostat. Through silicate weathering, the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide varies according to geologic processes. Volcanoes emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but rain and chemical reactions that occur in rocks and sediments also remove the gas from the atmosphere.

Rising temperatures would put more water vapor into the atmosphere, which then rains out, increasing the amount of dissolved carbon dioxide that chemically interacts with the rocks. This loss of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has a cooling effect. But as a planet begins to cool, rock weathering slows and the amount of carbon dioxide gradually builds from its volcanic sources, which causes rising temperatures.

Global-scale observations suggest that Earth has experienced silicate-weathering feedback. But attempts to verify that the process is operating today on the scale of individual river basins has proven difficult.

"The results are very noisy. There's no clear signal," Abbot said. "It would be great to have another independent confirmation from exoplanets."

All three co-authors are interested in fleshing out the details of experiments they proposed in their paper. Abbot plans to calculate how much carbon dioxide would be necessary to keep a planet habitable at a range of stellar radiation intensities while changing various planetary parameters. He also will assess how well a future instrument would be able to measure the gas.

"Then we will put this together to see how many planets we would need to observe to detect the trend indicating a silicate-weathering feedback," Abbot explained.

Bean and Kempton, meanwhile, are interested in detailing what a statistical census of biologically significant gases such as oxygen, carbon dioxide and ozone could reveal about planetary habitability.

"I'd like to get a better understanding of how some of the next-generation telescopes will be able to distinguish statistical trends that indicate habitable—or inhabited—planets," Kempton said.

 Explore further: Astrophysicists identify composition of earth-size planets in TRAPPIST-1 system

More information: Jacob L. Bean et al. A Statistical Comparative Planetology Approach to the Hunt for Habitable Exoplanets and Life Beyond the Solar System, The Astrophysical Journal (2017). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa738a 

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An alleged photo of a flying saucer landing on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is genuine, according to William Tompkins, a retired aerospace engineer who had a four decade career with leading U.S. corporations up until 1984.

Tompkins career began with service as a Naval Intelligence operative, from 1942 to 1946, where he provided intelligence briefings to select U.S. aerospace corporations about antigravity spacecraft being secretly developed in Nazi Germany.He has supplied several documentssupporting his claims that he was assigned such a covert mission and operated out of Naval Air Station, San Diego.

Tompkins discussed the photo in a radio interview on May 4, and claimed that it was taken from one of what were regular incidents on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers – landings by friendly “Nordic extraterrestrial UFOs”:

It’s one of quite a number of Nordic extraterrestrial UFOs that have landed on US Navy aircraft carriers. And what you’re looking at . . . You’re looking at it from the bottom of the bridge of the carrier because those older ones were much further forward than the photographs you’ve got later on.

Tompkins explains how the extraterrestrial craft would land, and transport the admiral of the naval battle group up to the mothership in space to hold discussions with commanders of a “Nordic Space Navy”.

It’s a long story. They came from one of their starships. So they came down to talk to the admiral that’s the commander on that particular battle group. And they did their other program and their meetings and our admiral left with the captain taking over the ship and some other people and they took off in that vehicle and they went back out to the mothership. And, of course, they brought them back later.

Tompkins emphasized the regularity of such landings due to the small chance they could be witnessed while the ships were at sea:

Like I’m just saying, there’s a whole story of all of these . . . because . . . The UFOs landed on our aircraft carriers many times. Okay? It’s nice because nobody can see them doing it.

On the right side of the photo are the words “Official U.S. Navy Photo” suggesting that someone linked to the Navy had arranged for its release into the public arena.

Another one of the May 4 radio guests, Frank Chille, described how he got first got a copy of the photo, and what he knew about it belonging to the U.S. Navy:

There’s a little bit of a side story on the disk that landed on the aircraft carrier. Believe it or not, that original photograph was shown to me by Graham Bethune more than 15 years ago… And I held it in my hands. He allowed me to make a copy of it. It was on very think paper and on the flip side it said, “U.S. Navy, top-secret, eyes only, 1955”.

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Graham Bethune was a U.S. Navy Commander, now deceased, who had after his retirement, released some of the most famous photographs in UFOlogy. His photographs from the 1989 Nashville, Tennessee sighting, for example, are among the best ever released of actual flying saucer craft.

Bethune gained access to many Navy photographs during his distinguished military career which included 12 years as “VIP Transport Plane Commander” and six years with the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics.

He subsequently worked for years to help disclose UFO related information, and there is no reason to believe he would fabricate the photo of a UFO landing on an aircraft carrier.

Chille described the circumstances under which Bethune allowed him to make a copy 15 years ago, and what happened when he first shared it with Tompkins in May 2016:

And Graham always had some incredible photographs, but he let me make a photograph of that, but he never told me the background on it. When I told Bill [Tompkins] about it, he said, “Frank.” He says, “can you get the photograph to me?” He says, “I think I know the story behind it.” And he got the photograph today and he said this dovetails right into his book, starting on page two.

On pages two to three of his book, Selected by Extraterrestrials, which was published in December 2015, Tompkins describes an incident very similar to that depicted in the photo.

A large flying saucer hovered over the aircraft carrier group led by the USS Coral Sea. 5000 Navy personnel saw the hovering flying saucer according to Tompkins. He next described telepathic communications being established between the commanding officers of the aircraft carrier battle group and the hovering flying saucer, before ending his story.

In the May 4 radio interview, Tompkins confirmed that the photo was of the USS Coral Sea (CV-43), similar to what he had described in Selected by Extraterrestrials, prior to him seeing Bethune’s photo:

Actually, the aircraft you’re seeing there on the flight deck, those are A-6s, which are an attack-type of aircraft… And that ship is the USS Coral Sea.

The Grumman A-6 Intruder fighter aircraft came into Naval service in 1963, which suggests the photo was taken on or after 1963. The 1955 date Chille recalled on the back of the photo, as an astute reader pointed out in a comment to an earlier version of this article, “would not refer to the date of the photo, but would refer to the date of the classification guide which established the level of the document being stamped.”  

Tompkins confirmation that the photo released by Commander Bethune to Chille is genuine is highly significant. It reveals that the U.S. Navy was actively cooperating with a Nordic extraterrestrial race as early as 1963.

Furthermore, Tompkins claims that during his work from 1951 to 1963 at a secretive think tank at Douglas Aircraft Company called Advanced Design, he was being assisted by two Nordic female extraterrestrials who were posing as ordinary secretaries. They were covertly assisting him in designing kilometer long space craft that would be later built for the Solar Warden space program in the 1980’s.

Consequently, during the decades it took for the design and construction of secret space battle groups, it appears that the U.S. Navy was working closely in gathering intelligence on the operations and missions of Nordic extraterrestrial space battle groups.

Tompkins also says that the Nordics were in locked in a galaxy wide conflict with Reptilian extraterrestrials, who had allied themselves with Nazi Germany during World War II, and assisted the Germans in building a secret space program in Antarctica.

The photo of a flying saucer landing on an aircraft carrier, if based on a genuine incident, would be hard evidence that the U.S. Navy has since the 1960’s, been actively cooperating with a group of friendly “Nordic” extraterrestrials which had identified the Navy as allies in a wider galactic conflict.

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[Update 5/1916 – Further research has shown the flying saucer landing on aircraft carrier photo is a doctored version of an April 1975 photo of the USS Roosevelt. While the photo is doctored, it may be based on a genuine incident. More details here. Article has been revised accordingly.]

[Update 5/13/16 – A reader has provided a comment that answers the apparent discrepancy between the date on the back of the photo (1955) and the naval service of the A-6 aircraft (1963-1997). The date refers to the Navy classification guide used to classify the photo, not when the photo was taken. Article has been revised accordingly.]

Further Reading

• Top Aerospace Designer Blows Whistle on Secret US Navy Space Battle Fleets
• US Navy Spies Learned of Nazi Alliance with Reptilian Extraterrestrials during WWII
• US Navy Spies Learned Secrets of Nazi Anti-gravity Spacecraft
• Did US Navy battle UFOs protecting Nazi Antarctic sanctuary in 1947?
• William Tompkins & US Navy Secret Space Program

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Extraterrestrial, History, SETI

WHAT IS THE DRAKE EQUATION?

  Article Updated: 13 Jun , 2017

by Matt Williams

Is there life out there in the Universe? That is a question that has plagued humanity long before we knew just how vast the Universe was – i.e. before the advent of modern astronomy. Within the 20th century – thanks to the development of modern telescopes, radio astronomy, and space observatories – multiple efforts have been made in the hopes of finding extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI).

And yet, humanity is still only aware of one intelligent civilization in the Universe – our own. And until we actually discover an alien civilization, the best we can do is conjecture about the likelihood of their existence. That’s where the famous Drake Equation – named after astronomer Dr. Frank Drake – comes into play. Developed in the 1960s, this equation estimates the number of possible civilizations out there based on a number of factors.

Background:

During the 1950s, the concept of using radio astronomy to search for signals that were extra-terrestrial in origin was becoming widely-accepted within the scientific community. The idea of listening for extra-terrestrial radio communications had been suggested as far back as the late 19th century (by Nikolai Tesla), but these efforts were concerned with looking for signs of life on Mars.

Frank Drake standing before his famous equation on a white board. Credit: SETI.org

Then, in September of 1959, Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison (who were both physics professors at Cornell University at the time) published an article in the journal Nature with the title “Searching for Interstellar Communications.” In it, they argued that radio telescopes had become sensitive enough that they could pick up transmissions being broadcast from other star systems.

Specifically, they argued that these messages might be transmitted at a wavelength of 21 cm (1420.4 MHz), the same wavelength of radio emissions by neutral hydrogen. As the most common element in the universe, they argued that extra-terrestrial civilizations would see this as a logical frequency at which to make radio broadcasts that could be picked up by other civilizations.

Seven months later, Frank Drake made the first systematic SETI survey at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. Known as Project Ozma, this survey relied on the observatory’s 25-meter dish to monitor Epsilon Eridani and Tau Ceti – two nearby Sun-like stars – at frequencies close to 21 cm for six hours a day, between April and July of 1960.

Though unsuccessful, the survey piqued the interest of the scientific and SETI communities. It was followed shortly thereafter by a meeting at the Green Bank facility in 1961, where the subjects of SETI and searching for radio signals of extra-terrestrial origin were discussed. In preparation for this meeting, Drake prepared the equation that would come to bear his name. As he said of the equation’s creation:

“As I planned the meeting, I realized a few day[s] ahead of time we needed an agenda. And so I wrote down all the things you needed to know to predict how hard it’s going to be to detect extraterrestrial life. And looking at them it became pretty evident that if you multiplied all these together, you got a number, N, which is the number of detectable civilizations in our galaxy. This was aimed at the radio search, and not to search for primordial or primitive life forms.”

The meeting, which included such luminaries as Carl Sagan, was commemorated with a commemorative plaque that is still in the hall of the Green Bank Observatory today.

The 85-foot (26 m) Howard E. Tatel Radio Telescope at NRAO used in Project Ozma. Credit: Z22/WIkipedia Commons

The Formula:

The formula for the Drake Equation is as follows:

N = R^* x f_p x n_e x f_l x f_i x f_c x L

Whereas N is the number of civilizations in our galaxy that we might able to communicate with, R^* is the average rate of star formation in our galaxy, f_p is the fraction of those stars which have planets, n_e is the number of planets that can actually support life, f_l is the number of planets that will develop life, f_i is the number of planets that develop intelligent life, fc is the number civilizations that would develop transmission technologies, and L is the length of time that these civilizations would have to transmit their signals into space.

Limits and Criticism:

Naturally, the Drake Equation has been subject to some criticism over the years, largely because a lot of the values it contains are assumed. Granted, some of the values it takes into account are easy enough to calculate, like the rate of star formation in the Milky Way. There are an estimated 200 – 400 billion stars within our Milky Way, and modern estimates say that there between 1.65 ± 0.19 and 3 new star form every year.

Assuming that our galaxy represents the average, and given that that there are as many as 2 trillion galaxies in the observable Universe (current estimates based on Hubble data), that means that there are as many as 1.5 to 6 trillion new stars being added to the Universe with every passing year! However, some of the other values are subject to a great deal of guess work.

For example, estimates on how many stars will have a system of planets has changed over time. Currently, it is estimated that the Milky Way contains 100 billion planets, which works out to about 50% of its stars having a planet of their own. Furthermore, those stars that have multiple planets will likely have one or two that lies within their habitable zone (aka. “Goldilocks Zone”) – where liquid water can exist on their surfaces.

Now let’s assume that 100% of planets located within a habitable zone will be able develop life in some form, that at least 1% of those life-supporting planets will be able to give rise to intelligent species, that 1% of these will be able to communicate, and that they will able to do so for a period of about 10,000 years. If we run those numbers through the Drake Equation, we end up with a value of 10.

In other words, there are possibly 10 civilizations in the Milky Way at any time capable of sending out signals that we could detect. But of course, the values used for four parameters there – f_l, f_i, f_c and L – were entirely assumed. Without any real data to go by, there’s no real way to know how many alien civilizations could really be out there. There could just be 1 in the entire Universe (us), or millions in every galaxy!

The Fermi Paradox:

Beyond the issue of assumed values, the most pointed criticism of the Drake Equation tend to emphasize the argument put forth by physicist Enrico Fermi, known as the Fermi Paradox. This argument arose in 1950 as a result of conversation between Fermi and some colleagues while he was working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. When the subject of UFOs and ETI came up, Fermi famously asked, “Where is everybody?”

This simple question summarized the conflict that existed between arguments that emphasized scale and the high probability of life emerging in the Universe with the complete lack of evidence that any such life exists. While Fermi was not the first scientists to ask the question, his name came to be associated with it due to his many writings on the subject.

In short, the Fermi Paradox states that, given the sheer number of stars in the Universe (many of which are billions of years older than our own), the high-probability that even a small fraction would have planets capable of giving rise to intelligent species, the likelihood that some of them would develop interstellar travel, and the time it would take to travel from one side of our galaxy to other (even allowing for sub-luminous speeds), humanity should have found some evidence of intelligent civilizations by now.

Naturally, this has given rise to many hypotheses as to how advanced civilizations could exist within our Universe but remain undetected. They include the possibility that intelligent life is extremely rare, that humanity is an early arrival to the Universe, that they do not exist (aka. the Hart-Tipler Conjecture), that they are in a state of slumber, or that we are simply looking in the wrong places.

The “Great Filter” Hypothesis:

But perhaps the best known explanation for why no signs of intelligence life have been found yet is the “Great Filter” hypothesis. This states that since that no extraterrestrial civilizations have been so far, despite the vast number of stars, then some step in the process – between life emerging and becomes technologically advanced – must be acting as a filter to reduce the final value.

According to this view, either it is very hard for intelligent life to arise, the lifetime of such civilizations is short, or the time they have to reveal their existence is short. Here too, various explanations have been offered to explain what the form the filter could take, which include Extinction Level Events (ELEs), the inability of life to create a stable environment in time, environmental destruction. and/or technology running amok (some of which we fear might happen to us!)

Alas, the Drake Equation has endured for decades for the very same reason that if often comes under fire. Until such time that humanity can find evidence of intelligent life in the Universe, or has ruled out the possibility based on countless surveys that actually inspect other star systems up close, we won’t be able to answer the question, “Where is everybody?”

As with many other cosmological mysteries, we’ll be forced to guess about what we don’t know based on what we do (or think we do). As astronomers study stars and planets with newer instruments, they might eventually be able to work out just how accurate the Drake Equation really is. And if our recent cosmological and exoplanet-hunting efforts have shown us anything, it is that we are just beginning to scratch the surface of the Universe at large!

In the coming years and decades, our efforts to learn more about extra-solar planets will expand to include research of their atmospheres – which will rely on next-generation instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope and the European Extremely-Large Telescope array. These will go a long way towards refining our estimates on how common potentially habitable worlds are.

In the meantime, all we can do is look, listen, wait and see…

We have written many articles about the Drake Equation for Universe Today. Here’s Inside the Drake Equation: A Chat with Frank Drake, The Odds of Intelligent Life in the Universe, A New Drake Equation? Other Life Not Likely to be Intelligent, A New Drake Equation for Potential of Life, Bayesian Analysis Rains on Exoplanet Life Parade, and Where are all the Aliens? The Fermi Paradox?

There are some great resources out there on the Internet. Check out this Drake Equation calculator.

We have recorded an entire episode of Astronomy Cast about the Drake Equation. Check it out here, Episode 23 – Counting Aliens with the Drake Equation.

Sources:

• SETI – Drake Equation
• Wikipedia – Drake Equation
• PBS NOVA – The Drake Equation

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Has NASA found ALIENS? Shock space reveal NEXT WEEK in hunt for life

NASA could be on the verge of an alien breakthrough as will reveal a new discovery next week.

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“This survey will enable new lines of research in exoplanet study, which looks at planets outside our solar system.”

NASA

The discoveries will come from the team at the Kepler space telescope which looks for habitable worlds outside the Solar System.

The telescope searches for Earth-sized planets in the “habitable zones” of nearby stars – and has found thousands of planets which could harbour life.

Speculation is mounting about the announcement by NASA – which is set for 3pm on Monday, June 19.

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Last year, NASA announced the incredible find of nine planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1.

Three of the planets were believed to be in the star’s habitable zone and capable of harbouring life.

Scientists are launching a new satellite – the James Webb Telescopes – to study seven of the new worlds.

A spokesman for NASA said: "The latest Kepler catalog of planet candidates was created using the most sophisticated analyses yet, yielding the most complete and reliable accounting of distant worlds to date.

"This survey will enable new lines of research in exoplanet study, which looks at planets outside our solar system.”

Searches for alien life in our solar system have been focused on Mars, Venus and the moons of Saturn and Jupiter.

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UFO emerges from strange looking cloud over Colorado

A UFO arrived via a portal from a parallel universe? Or there is an explanation for the event happened in the sky over Colorado when out of a clear sky suddenly a UFO appears leaving a strange looking cloud.

Witness states: I went outside to relax and saw a strange cloud shape in the sky. It was unusual so I took a couple of quick pictures with my camera phone.

I do not recall hearing a sonic boom however, it is possible that is why I was drawn to look up. It would not be unreasonable to think this was a plane breaking the sound barrier.

Later when looking at one of the photos I noticed a brown looking object above the cloud. It was either the object that made the cloud or it kinda looks like something may have flown through the cloud in pursuit of what ever made the cloud.

Insect, bird, UFO? I can't tell what it is. Maybe you all can make something of it. Let me know. Mufon case 84360.

Original large sized image - cloud only:
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Original large sized image - cloud and UFO:
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Flightradar24 shows NASA’s SOFIA monitoring Yellowstone Super Volcano!

Currently NASA put’s their SOFIA every day in the air. SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) is built into a converted Boeing 747SP.

SOFIA’s 2.5-meter (8.2-foot)-diameter infrared telescope will make it the world’s largest and most sensitive airborne observatory. Flying at 39,000 to 45,000 feet, it will enable scientific observations that are impossible for even the largest and highest of Earth-based telescopes.

Already four days during sunrise/sunset NASA is monitoring the sun but yesterday, June 12, 2017 flightradar24 shows that they monitoring Yellowstone National Park too.

Remember the Massive Lake of Molten Carbon the size of Mexico recently found under Yellowstone?

The molten carbonate sits beneath Yellowstone National Park, which in and of itself is a super volcano with the power of a massive eruption. The last major eruption was 640,000 years ago at Yellowstone, however if the super volcano did erupt it could cause the US to go into a volcanic winter.

If NASA puts its SOFIA in the air it's important. This Bird of Prey doesn't go 'hunting' unless there is something TO hunt, they watching something, bet on it!

  

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The International Space Station (ISS) is a constant source of conspiracy theories and UFO conjectures. NASA operates a live feed of cameras aboard the ISS, and it seems like a new video appears on YouTube every week purporting to show proof UFOs or a NASA coverup. While most of these turn out to be baseless conjectures or doctored footage, the ISS seems to be the source of some recent somewhat verifiable strangeness. NASA recently detected unknown microbial colonies growing on the walls of the ISS. While some level of biological contamination should be expected on the inside where astronauts’ disgusting human bodies float around stinkin’ up the joint, finding possible life on the outside of the space station is much more unexpected – yet that’s exactly what Russia’s state space agency, Roscosmos, is reporting.

“Definitive proof of alien contact!” says every YouTube UFO channel any time orbital debris or lens flares are seen on ISS live streams.

In 2014, Roscosmos cosmonauts collected cosmic dust samples from the outside of the ISS and analyzed them for any signs of extraterrestrial life. According to Russian state-owned news agency Tass, Roscosmos scientists now believe the samples may contain “biomaterial” that is not of this planet:

The micrometeorites and comet dust that settle on the ISS surface may contain biogenic substance of extra-terrestrial origin in its natural form,. The ISS surface is possibly a unique and easily available collector and keeper of comet substance and, possibly, of biomaterial of extra-terrestrial origin.

Tass explains that the ISS spends much of its time orbiting in the wake of dust streams and other “substance flows” trailing off of the backs of comets, which have been claimed to spread organic and biological material throughout the universe. NASA has yet to issue a comment on the reports. Most likely, any microbial life on the exterior of the space station could be terrestrial in origin and could have come into contact with the space station through incidental means. Still, it’s worth looking into – if Roscosmos actually has found organic material on the exterior of the ISS, that is. Strangely though, another development this week hints that something odd might indeed be going on at the International Space Station.

The ISS had a close encounter this week.

On May 1st this year, commercial aerospace firm SpaceX launched a mysterious spy satellite into orbit on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office. The exact nature and purpose of satellite NROL-76 is unknown, and SpaceX cut the live feed of the satellite’s launch just as the rocket entered its second stage. Sure, spy satellites and commercial rockets launches are relatively commonplace today, but it’s the satellite’s behavior that has skywatchers befuddled.

According to satellite tracking blog SatTrackCam, the NROL-76 passed within just a few kilometers of the ISS on June 3rd, just outside of its collision avoidance zone. The satellite then circled the ISS before entering its own orbit.

SatTrackCam’s Marco Langbroek claims that this type of activity is an anomaly, and should certainly attract some suspicion in the international aerospace community:

I am struggling to understand why the NRO allowed this close approach to happen, if it was not intentional. This event was bound to attract attention and that harms the classified character of the mission. It is also an extremely sloppy thing to do because this close an approach to a high profile object like ISS is politically risky. As the ISS is an international cooperation which includes two parties (the United States and the Russian Federation) that are currently geopolitically on an uneasy footing, sending your military payload so close to the ISS as one party is eyebrow raising.

On another satellite tracking site, SatObs.org, Ted Molczan writes that “I am inclined to believe that the close conjunctions between USA 276 and ISS are intentional, but this remains unproven.” The announcement by Roscosmos of possible alien life on the outside of the ISS is unusual given the timing of this satellite fly-by. Could the two be related? Who knows. But put this mysterious development alongside the unexplained nuclear activity being detected in the Arctic and the anomalous “killer” satellite activity seen in Russian satellites, and it’s possible that Cold War 2.0 is already getting interesting.

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UFO sighted in York? Sure, why not.

On April 11, 2017 a UFO sighting was reported in York County. It is under investigation by the Mutual UFO Network. Sean Heisey, York Daily Record

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The universe is a big place. 

It is vast beyond our imagination – at least if your imagination is somewhat less active than that wheelchair guy – and it is ever expanding, creating new space for new planets and solar systems and galaxies and strip malls, a kind of cosmic sprawl. 

It would be solipsistic of us to believe that we are the only beings in the universe who have built great cities, tamed and then destroyed our environment and domesticated the dog to the point where we exist as a support system for canines. (If aliens ever visit, they will immediately try to talk to our dogs to learn about our culture. The dogs are clearly in charge. I mean, we follow them around and pick up their poop.) 

There has to be intelligent life out there somewhere because, as Monty Python once opined, "there's bugger all down here on Earth." 

These are notions to ponder as we delve into the news, kind of, of a close encounter of some kind that may have occurred somewhere around here.  

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It happened April 11 at about 10 p.m.  

According to a report received by the Mutual UFO Network, called MUFON, for short, the person who witnessed it was inside watching TV when the person, who was not identified, saw two bright lights in the distance.  

At first, the witness believed it was a new cell tower, but it wasn't. The witness reported to MUFON that the lights did not move for a while, and after a few moments, a smaller light detached from the larger one and hovered below it.  

The witness then reported that the larger of two objects, described as a large craft, moved toward the witness and passed, low, over the witness's house. "It was diamond shaped and had a rectangular light underneath it," the witness was quoted as saying. "In that rectangle was a red light, then a white light, and then a green light. The lights were not flashing. The UFO was humongous and made a humming noise." 

It hovered and then both things began to move, the witness reported. "When it took off, the small thing that came out of it went straight up," the report continued. "When the light came out of the right corner or what would have been the right corner (the only thing I could see at that point were the two huge lights) it seemed that the small thing came off that light. Almost like it was poured out of that light." 

The witness reported, "Anyway, it scared me a lot, and I have looked for a hovering jet picture on the net, but did not see any that looked like it. And why would a hovering jet be spitting out a small craft like that? Before it took off, it had stayed unmoving for at least 10 minutes, maybe longer, before I noticed it. In relationship to its size, it was huge. I watch planes in the distance from my backyard and the little thing that came out of the big UFO would have been the size a commercial airplane like I see all the time going toward Harrisburg airport. So the big UFO was really, really big." 

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So, aliens? Little green men? Are they the kind of docile, kind aliens of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"? Or are they huge tentacled insects bent on world domination and killing off the human race as in "Independence Day"? Or are they the really tall mutes who want to eat us, as featured on "The Twilight Zone"? 

Or are these craft part of a fleet of intergalactic airliners that took a wrong turn around Albuquerque?  

Who knows? 

Well, Bill Weber might know. 

Bill Weber is MUFON's chief investigator for Pennsylvania and Delaware, and as such, the report from York was funneled to him. Weber declined to release either the name of the witness or the location of the sighting, saying the organization maintains confidentiality with those who report things like this. The closest city was York was all he would say about it. 

He said he has assigned an investigator and will await the results of whatever he comes up with. 

Typically, he said, the investigators interview the witness, search the area for corroborating witnesses, review any photographs or video, stuff like that. In some cases, they file Freedom of Information Act requests with the Federal Aviation Administration for radar data and analyze that. 

In many cases, he said, there is an explanation for whatever witnesses think they saw. It could be a terrestrial aircraft – as opposed to an extraterrestrial aircraft – or it could be birds or bats, or it could be something else entirely, maybe a drone or something. Some reports are hoaxes and MUFON's investigators can easily debunk them, he said. 

Weber estimates that between 80 and 85 percent of the cases the organization investigates conclude with a logical explanation. "It's only about 15 percent that we tend to classify as unknown," he said. That doesn't mean it's an alien craft, only that "we can't figure out what it is." 

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Among those reports investigators apparently figured out was another from Pennsylvania, reported in 1997 and published on MUFON's website. 

It reads: "It was like a spinning top but the bottom was not pointed, lots of multicolored lights, lots of see-through window at top. At least 15 or 20 aliens unlike the standard look, they were half human and half standard look, full bodies, beautiful looking creatures all moving about and communicating whatever. All had the same colored outfits and all the lights constantly moving. All windows seem to be moving or turning separately from the bottom. The bottom then had a long yellow light dropping to the ground and a small stepside Ford or Chevy pickup lowered slowly to the ground and disappeared over the hill ahead and then the UFO disappeared. I followed to find it and could not find it, but at the bottom of the hill daylight stunned me and it was 6:30 a.m. I don’t know where the night went." 

Aliens in a pickup truck? Were these some kind of interstellar migrant workers? Are we going to have to build a bigger wall? And what's "standard look"? 

Well, we may never know. 

Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us? is a rarely seen 1999 documentary on the UFO phenomena.

Reach Mike Argento at 717-771-2046 or at mike@ydr.com. 

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UFO Disappears Into Portal Above Colorado?

A video that has been viewed millions of times on social media appears to be fake.

CLAIM

A UFO was seen disappearing into a portal over Colorado.

RATING

 UNPROVEN

ORIGIN

On 17 April 2017, a video was posted to the Facebook page “I’m From Denver”, showing what appears to be an unidentified flying object. The video, which came with a claim that it was spotted over southern Colorado, was shared more millions of times:

Because the page doesn’t say exactly where in southern Colorado the video was allegedly filmed, we can’t check with local authorities to verify whether residents actually saw something that looked extraterrestrial in the night sky and caused alarm. However because the video shows something rather outlandish happening, one would expect it to have been covered by the local news media — and there are no reports in Colorado matching the description of such a sighting (although the southern Colorado region known as San Luis Valley is an apparent hotspot for UFO sightings).

This video, in fact, didn’t originate in Colorado, but was initially reported in March 2017 with people claiming they had seen it somewhere over Sonora, a Mexican state that touches the United States border:

Humans have no known contact with extraterrestrials; however, we aren’t sure whether the video was computer generated or the result of a light trick. There are tabloid media reports out of Mexico that claim residents saw the object and were frightened by it, but they don’t quote any sources.  Meanwhile the use of drones using LEDs to create light shows (or troll the credulous) is a well-known pastime.

Gabe Hash, a Spanish-language YouTube personality who delves into unexplained phenomena, claimed he could explain the video with the help of two computer-savvy volunteers who were able to recreate the effect in less than a day using a program called Adobe After Effects:

In the video, Hash casts doubt on the idea that the lights seen in the video were real as opposed to computer generated. He says (in Spanish):

The post says that the object was seen by residents. But that’s not true, since there is no other proof besides this video and no official mention of the event. Secondly, the video is only 30 seconds long and nobody is talking while the person is recording it, meaning that it meets all the characteristics of an animation. Most of the video is blurry and as I’ve said below, this is done to camouflage the animation… In conclusion, in our opinion the video is fake and just an animation rendered via computer. Judge for yourselves.

However, since this video is impossible to prove or disprove without knowing more about what and where it is supposed to be, we can only rate it as Unproven.

Filed Under:Colorado Hoax Mexico +2 More

Fact Checker:Bethania Palma

Featured Image:YouTube screen capture

Published:Jun 12th, 2017

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Alien Life Could Easily Planet Hop in This Tantalizing Solar System

By Carl Engelking

An artist’s conception of TRAPPIST-1. (Credit: ESO)

If we detect alien life on a planet in the TRAPPIST solar system, there’s a chance they’ve already spread to one or more of the other six planets orbiting this ultra-cool, ultra-tiny star some 40 light-years away.

In May 2016, scientists made headlines when they discovered three, Earth-size, rocky planets (in February scientists announced they found four more) orbiting a red dwarf star that’s roughly the size of Jupiter. Planets in this system huddle around their home star in tightly packed orbits—TRAPPIST-1b circles its star once per day. And since red dwarfs are cooler than our sun, it’s thought that several of these planets could be habitable, despite close proximity to their star.

This tightly packed solar system begs a tantalizing question: Are these planets exchanging life via space rocks? There are theories that life on Earth may have come from Martian rocks. And if that’s the case, Harvard University researchers Mansavi Ligam and Abraham Loeb argue that the odds of the same thing occurring in the TRAPPIST-1 system are magnitudes higher.

Sowing Seeds

The panspermia hypothesis, credited to Big Bang skeptic Fred Hoyle, underlies all of this life-exchanging talk. Basically, it states that asteroids, comets and meteorites laden with microbes crash into virgin planets, and the surviving microbes sow new life. A few years ago, scientist Steven Benner threw out a provocative idea during a geochemistry conference: Perhaps life on Earth began with organisms clinging to rocks from Mars.

Billions of years ago, conditions on Earth were far too hellish for life to take root. But perhaps a major impact sent Martian rocks flying into space on a course toward Earth. The rest, as they say, is history. It’s still a theory, but there are organisms that can survive the ravages of space—ahem, tardigrades.

In a study published Tuesday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ligam and Loeb built a mathematical model, borrowing from theoretical ecology, to see how the panspermia hypothesis might play out in the TRAPPIST-1 system. Based on their analysis, if Mars could send life to Earth, it’s far more likely that the same thing would happen at TRAPPIST-1.

If you boil down the math, their results are intuitive: The distance between two planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system is tens of times less than the distance between Earth and Mars, which increases the efficiency of material exchanges. Thus, there’s a higher chance TRAPPIST planets are throwing life-seeds back and forth.

An Exciting Theory, But a Theory Nonetheless

Of course, there’s no telling what kind of organisms, if any, would be hitching a ride on TRAPPIST-1 rocks, so it isn’t possible to know if TRAPPIST organisms would survive the trip. Their model is also very simplified, because we just don’t know much about TRAPPIST-1. When did the planets settle into their orbits? Are there a sufficient number of meteorites slamming into planets to launch life-seeding rocks through space (a.k.a. cause spallation)? These are just a few Ligam and Loeb raise in their work.

Looking forward, we first need to determine if life indeed exists in TRAPPIST-1. Telescopes that will be launched in the coming years will be able to probe planets’ atmospheres in the system to detect biosignatures associated with life as we know it on Earth. Scientists could also search for “red edge” spectral signals that hint at the presence of vegetation.

If life exists, researchers could then theoretically verify the panspermia hypothesis, as well. If “red edge” signals are the same on various TRAPPIST-1 planets, that would indicate life sprung forth from a singular source.

Life as we know it relies on “left-handed” amino acids and right-handed sugars, for example. If organisms on TRAPPIST-1 planets all adhere to the same chirality rules, that’s a good sign that life hopped from planet to planet. But if the rules were different on each planet, it would be an indication that life evolved in isolation.

Extraterrestrial life will always capture even the most casual stargazer’s imagination, and these theories about TRAPPIST-1 are certainly titillating. Unfortunately, patience will be the mantra for years to come, as we’ll need to wait for new, technologically advanced telescopes to come online before putting hypotheses to the test.

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1977 'Wow!' Signal Was Not a Comet, Could Have Been Aliens

Mysterious ‘evidence’ of alien life debunked after 40 years

By Rebecca Wilkin

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In 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman discovered a mysterious signal when working with Ohio State’s “Big Ear” telescope in Delaware. When Ehman first saw the signal on a printout, it was so large and unusual that he circled it and wrote “Wow!”, thus giving the signal its name. It’s also been passed around as possibly the best evidence in support of those who believe alien life is out there.

The Wow! Signal was 30 times stronger than usual background radiation and was broadcast at the same frequency with which hydrogen glows. Some astronomers believe this is the best frequency to look for alien signals, leading conspiracy theorists to claim that the Wow! Signal is in fact a message from extraterrestrials.

Astronomers at the time knew the signal could not have come from Earth, and they believed the signal had come from a region of space near the constellation Sagittarius.

Since the signal’s discovery in 1977, scientists have attempted and subsequently failed to explain its origins, however, recent evidence from Antonio Paris, an astronomy professor at St. Petersburg College, suggests the signal was due to passing comets — not life beyond our planet.

The Center for Planetary Science, which Paris helps run, previously suggested a passing comet and its cloud could be the origin of the Wow! Signal. A comet known as 266/P Christensen was, in fact, in the sky in 1977 when the signal was recorded, however, this was unknown to astronomers at the time.

Using a 10-meter radio telescope, Paris and his team observed the comet as it was passing. The team found that both comet 266/P Christensen and comet  P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) were passing through the particular region of the sky Ehman was observing in 1977. These comets were not known to scientists until 2006. When the radio telescope was moved even 1 degree from the comet in 200 trials by Paris and his team, the signal faded.

Paris admits that it is not entirely proven whether these comets in particular were responsible for the signal, but his team has acknowledged the 1977 Wow! Signal was indeed a natural phenomenon generated by a comet.

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UFO FOTO OP TELEFOON , GENOMEN OP MOMENT DAT MAN LAG TE SLAPEN

Nog steeds hebben wij eigenlijk geen flauw benul over wat er allemaal bij ons de lucht rondvliegt en wat de gevolgen zijn voor sommige mensen. 

Het enige dat we zeker weten, is dat er vreemde verhalen de ronde doen, waarbij mensen zich verbijsterd afvragen hoe zoiets mogelijk is. 

Begin jaren zestig zijn er voor het eerst verhalen van mensen die door buitenaardsen zouden zijn ontvoerd en meegenomen naar ruimteschepen. 

De eerste keer dat de wereld eigenlijk kennismaakte met dit fenomeen was in 1961 met de ontvoering van Barney en Betty Hill in 1961. 

Dit getrouwde stel was op 19 september van dat jaar onderweg van Canada naar huis in New Hampshire toen ze ’s avonds rond een uur of tien een vreemd licht door de lucht zagen bewegen. Ze werden duizelig en bleken later compleet de tijd kwijt te zijn en konden zich niets meer herinneren. Later bleek uit uitgebreide hypnose sessies dat ze waren ontvoerd en meegenomen naar een buitenaards ruimteschip. Wie dit fascinerende verhaal wil lezen, kan dat hier doen. 

Op dit moment doet een ander interessant verhaal de ronde dat onder andere door Secureteam wordt gebracht alsof het iets is dat gisteren gebeurd is en dat is het verhaal van een vreemde foto, waarbij de eigenaar van de camera zich niet kan herinneren dat hij die bepaalde foto heeft genomen. 

Het verhaal is wel echt, maar het gebeurde al in 2015 en speelde zich af op het bekende forum Reddit. 

Een man plaatste daar een foto met de boodschap dat hij deze had gevonden op zijn telefoon en geen flauw benul had wie deze had genomen want hij was het zelf niet geweest. 

Op de foto zie je een paar felle lichten in de lucht die doen denken aan de film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Het verhaal wordt nog vreemder, want niet alleen kon de man zich niets herinneren, toen hij keek naar de tijd dat de foto de vorige avond was genomen stond daar 22:51:22. Een tijd dat hij in bed lag te slapen. 

Vervolgens heeft een andere gebruiker op Reddit de foto zodanig bewerkt dat de donkere gedeeltes wat meer zichtbaar werden. 

En dan wordt het nog veel interessanter want op de foto zien we een man staan die naar het vreemde object in de lucht staart. Wat nog vreemder is, is dat de man op de foto niet de eigenaar van de camera is die het bericht op Reddit heeft geplaatst.

Het enige dat de man bekend voor komt is de bomenrij. Die ziet eruit zoals aan de voorkant van zijn huis. 

Talloze theorieën werden naar voren gebracht zoals dat hij zou hebben geslaapwandeld of de lichten zouden een reflectie zijn van de flits van de camera, maar ook dat hij misschien ontvoerd zou zijn geweest in het ruimteschip op de foto en dat ze daarna zijn geheugen hebben gewist. 

De bekende Dr. Steven Greer heeft gezegd dat alle ontvoeringen die tot nu hebben plaatsgevonden op aarde door “buitenaardsen” feitelijk zijn uitgevoerd door het Amerikaanse leger. 

Kortom, verwarring alom en niemand die het er fijne van weet. Daarom zouden wij graag vernemen of er mensen zijn die een vergelijkbaar iets hebben meegemaakt als hierboven omschreven of die weten dat ze zijn ontvoerd en meegenomen.

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‘Bizarre UFO clearly rising into portal in sky' seen by one million in shock video

A SENSATIONAL video that shows what appears to be a bizarre-looking UFO disappear into a "portal in the sky" has been viewed by more than one million people.

Mystery as UFO snapped by thousands across the globe - and it’s still being investigated

THIS strange-looking UFO has been photographed thousands of times in all corners of the globe.

Jupiter  oudste planeet van ons zonnestelsel - HLN.be

 Bron: Belga

© ap.

Jupiter is de oudste planeet van ons zonnestelsel. Dat hebben planeetwetenschappers van de Universiteit van Münster in het jongste nummer van het vakblad Proceedings van de Amerikaanse Academie voor Wetenschappen (PNAS) bericht.

De onderzoekers zeggen erin geslaagd te zijn de ouderdom van de grootste planeet van ons stelsel te benoemen. Eerder waren er enkel schattingen.

Volgens de wetenschappers had de gasreus een miljoen jaar na het ontstaan van ons zonnestelsel, ongeveer 4,6 miljard jaar geleden, al twintig keer de massa van onze Aarde. Jupiter had nog eens drie miljoen jaar nodig om "volwassen" te worden.

Onze planeet heeft ongeveer 100 miljoen jaar nodig gehad voor haar ontstaan. 

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When you call yourself ‘The UFO Capital of Australia’ because of the hundreds of sightings there since World War II but you’ve had none in the past year, you tend to get worried. When there’s nothing else in your town to attract tourists besides a single restaurant, a park and a roadhouse selling gas, beer and souvenirs, you begin to wonder what you did to offend the aliens. That’s the situation right now in Wycliffe Well, Northern Territory, considered to be – until last year – one of the top five UFO hotspots in the world. What happened?

Scientists say the sky is full of Ley Lines, which act like highways for the UFO’s to travel along. But these energy lines must meet somewhere and one of those crossroads or intersections lies directly above the middle of Australia. That’s why we see so many here.

Lou Farkus is the owner of the Wycliffe Well Holiday Park and depends on that alleged Ley Lines intersection about 400 km north of Alice Springs for his survival. Wycliffe Well popped up as a watering point along the stocking route for the 3200 km Overland Telegraph Line which connected Darwin with Port Augusta in South Australia in 1872. It was a market center for troops during World War II, but after the war only two soldiers remained to keep the market open for stores in Alice Springs … and UFOs.

UFO sightings are so common, that if you stayed up all night looking, you would be considered unlucky not to see anything, rather than lucky to see something.

A binder containing descriptions and records of the sightings has been kept at the park since it opened, but the original was stolen and the current version only dates back to the 1990s. The walls of the restaurant are covered with newspaper clippings for those wishing more details.

Why Wycliffe Well? One reason might be because it’s location is completely flat and there’s no city lights to distort the 360-degree view of the nighttime sky. Another reason might be the Woomera Prohibited Area – a.k.a. Australia’s Area 51 or Area 52 – which is south of Wycliffe Well on the Stuart Highway. The 122,000 sq km (47,000 sq mile) weapons testing range – the world’s largest — has been in operation since … you guessed it …. World War II, for testing of secret aircraft and rocketry for the Royal Australian Air Force.

Are all of the UFO sightings actually secret RAAF aircraft? “Of course not!” say the people whose lives depend on UFO tourism, like Lou Farkus.

Sure the RAAF do flyovers from time to time, but once you seen their Jets going at Mach-1, There’s no comparison with the speed that these other things travel at. Sometimes the UFO’s travel so fast you’d literally blink to miss it. I’ve only heard of one case of someone seeing an Alien form, it was from an Aboriginal woman who said she saw a flashing object descend into the trees and then sighted three beings.

Whether they believe it’s UFOs or secret aircraft, everyone is puzzled by the sudden disappearance of bright unidentified objects in the Wycliffe Well night sky, especially when UFO sightings are on the rise elsewhere in the world. The RAAF doesn’t appear to be talking and neither are the aliens.

Has anyone asked the Aboriginal Australians?

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ByCheryl Costa

 

Columinst Cheryl Costa looks at the UFO sighting numbers for 2016.

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Louisiana witness animates hovering disc UFOs

A Louisiana witness at Lafayette County reported watching two, disc-shaped objects with binoculars that disappeared into a dark cloud, according to testimony in Case 84059 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was outside looking at clouds at 5 p.m. on May 27, 2017, at a 45-degree angle to the north using binoculars.

Still image from the witness animation video.

(Credit: MUFON)

“And as soon as I got the focus, there they were – two UFOs,” the witness stated. “One on top the other and in close proximity to each other. The one underneath the other was moving left to right from side-to-side in a straight pattern, while the other one hovered above it.”

The witness had a feeling the objects were trying to communicate.

“I kind of got the feeling the bottom one was using the craft to wave at me, as to say, ‘Hey, here we are!’ As it was moving side-to-side as in someone would move their hand to wave.”

Still image from the witness animation video.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness described the objects.

“These were both saucer-shaped and were a black or dark gray color and both had lights in the front that pulsated back and forth like the Knight Rider car, but only much slower. The color of the lights from my perspective was red on the left, blue in the middle and either yellow or white on the right. I couldn’t make out the size because I couldn’t see them with the naked eye, only through the binoculars. I was using a Redfield brand that was 10 x 50. But they were clear as day to see the shape, color and what they were doing.”

Watch the animated video the witness produced to depict the sighting.

The witness put the binoculars down to see if he could see them with his eyes, but they were too far away.

Still image from the witness animation video.

(Credit: MUFON)

“But as soon as I looked back in the binoculars, I could see them again. I was hoping to get video footage, as I kept watching for about 30 seconds, a dark cloud was moving toward that area where they were. That’s when I told my wife to go inside and hurry to grab my phone. I was going to try and film it through the binoculars, but by the time the dark cloud got to where they were, I couldn’t see them anymore. The cloud seemed to stay there for a while, which I found strange and maybe even thought something was behind the cloud like a mother ship using a cloud cloaking device, because after it finally cleared up in that area, I couldn’t see the other craft again. I stayed out all that day and hooked up my phone to record through the binoculars, but didn’t see them again.”

Lafayette County is a parish in Louisiana, population 221,578. Louisiana MUFON is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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UFO Hunter films UFO flying towards the moon at high speed

On June 6, 2017 at 11.31 pm Limee Watcher from U.K. films the moon from his back garden when he notices an unknown object flying towards the moon at incredible speed before it disappears behind the moon.

He wonders whether it a celestial object, space junk or, if watching the angle when the object comes in towards the moon, a UFO.

UFO hunter Limee Watcher: “I thought I slow down it just to see what this object is, well I am stumped.”

  

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The Kill-Shot will be triggered by a Super Solar Flare or a Nuclear EMP attack?

Analysts who have researched the affects of a powerful earth-directed Solar Flare believe that a direct hit by an extreme CME could cause widespread power blackouts, disabling everything that plugs into a wall socket. Most people wouldn't even be able to flush their toilet because urban water supplies largely rely on electric pumps.

It has happened before and soon or later it will happen again. In 2016 Major Ed Dames has warned us already for the impending “kill-shot” which will pose a direct threat to all forms of high-technology.

It begins with an explosion--a "solar flare"—in the magnetic canopy of a sunspot.

X-rays and extreme UV radiation reach Earth at light speed, ionizing the upper layers of our atmosphere; side-effects of this "solar EMP" include radio blackouts and GPS navigation errors. 

Minutes to hours later, the energetic particles arrive. Moving only slightly slower than light itself, electrons and protons accelerated by the blast can electrify satellites and damage their electronics.

Then come the CMEs, billion-ton clouds of magnetized plasma that take a day or more to cross the Sun-Earth divide.

Remember the solar storm of 1859, the March 1989 geomagnetic storm and the Solar Superstorm of July 2012 that just missed the Earth!

Solar storm of 1859.

The Solar storm of 1859—known as the Carrington Event was a powerful geomagnetic solar storm during solar cycle 10 (1855–1867). A solar coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetosphere and induced one of the largest geomagnetic storms on record, September 1–2, 1859. The associated "white light flare" in the solar photosphere was observed and recorded by English astronomers Richard C. Carrington (1826–1875) and Richard Hodgson (1804–1872).

Studies have shown that a solar storm of this magnitude occurring today would likely cause more widespread problems for a modern and technology-dependent society.

The solar storm of 2012 was of similar magnitude, but it passed Earth's orbit without striking the planet. March 1989 geomagnetic storm.

A severe geomagnetic storm struck Earth on March 13, 1989. 

It occurred during solar cycle 22 and caused a nine-hour outage of Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system.

The geomagnetic storm causing this event was itself the result of a coronal mass ejection on March 9, 1989. A few days before, on March 6, a very large X15-class solar flare also occurred.

Three and a half days later, at 2 44 am EST on March 13, a severe geomagnetic storm struck Earth. The storm began on Earth with extremely intense auroras at the poles. The aurora could be seen as far south as Texas and Florida.

The Halloween solar storms were a series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections that occurred from mid-October to early November 2003, peaking around October 28–29. ... One of the solar storms was compared by some scientists in its intensity to the Carrington Event of 1859.

The Solar Superstorm of July 2012.

Carrington-class CME Narrowly Misses Earth. The solar storm of 2012 was an unusually large and strong coronal mass ejection (CME) event that occurred on July 23 that year. It missed the Earth with a margin of approximately nine days, as the Sun rotates around its own axis with a period of about 25 days.

The region that produced the outburst was thus not pointed directly towards the Earth at that time. The strength of the eruption was comparable to the 1859 Carrington event that caused damage to electric equipment worldwide, which at that time consisted mostly of telegraph stations.

And if it is not a Solar Flare than it is quite possible that the danger of a “kill-shot” will come of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generated by the detonation of a high-altitude nuclear weapon.

This is not mere theory!

In 1962 the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear warhead over the South Pacific, 900 miles southwest of Hawaii. Designated “Starfish Prime,” the blast destroyed hundreds of street lights in Honolulu, caused electrical surges on airplanes in the area, and damaged at least six satellites.. 

A North Korean EMP attack on the U.S or other countries may be far-fetched?

No! North Korea could make an EMP attack against the United States by launching a short-range missile off a freighter or submarine or by lofting a warhead to 30 kilometers burst height by balloon,” wrote Mr. Graham earlier this month on the security blog 38 North. Learn more: Zerohedge.com

Even a balloon-lofted warhead detonated at 30 kilometers altitude could blackout the Eastern Grid that supports most of the population and generates 75 percent of US electricity. Moreover, an EMP attack could be made by a North Korean satellite. Two North Korean satellites currently orbit the earth on trajectories that take them over the U.S.

Was it a dry run for an EMP attack?

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Britain’s UFO files to be RELEASED confirms Government: ‘These are the REAL-life X-Files’

BRITAIN’S top secret UFO files are set to be released within months shedding lighting on alien encounters across the UK, the government have confirmed.

The government has confirmed classified documents detailing evidence of UFO sightings and abductions contain nearly 50 years of information about alien experiences.

Spooks have kept the files under wraps for the past five decades – but now UFO hunters are rejoicing as the files are on the verge of release.

The National Archives have confirmed the UFO document dubbed the “real life X-files” will be released after the General Election on June 8.

The UFO dossier is understood to contain around 18 files detailing alleged encounters and experiences involving alien life.

It will contain information relating the the Rendlesham Forest incident – Britain’s most infamous UFO encounter – which has been likened to the UK”s Roswell.

Military men at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk experienced “alien” activity over a number of nights and encountered a “triangle shaped craft” in the woods

Conspiracy theorists have claimed the delays in releasing the files have been a cover-up – but archivists have been unable to publish them due to the election.

Documents were meant to be released in 2013, but a number of the files were withheld for release in March.

But their release has been delayed again due to Prime Minister Theresa May calling an election.

While UFO hunters are waiting with baited breath for the files, experts have downplayed their release.

Nick Pope, an expert who worked as the Ministry of Defence’s UFO investigator for 15 years, said: “There’s no smoking gun in these files that will confirm the existence of aliens, but there are plenty of fascinating UFO reports and MoD policy documents, so these really are the real-life X-Files.”

He told the Mail: “The delay has been a comedy of errors though, I think it’s more bureaucracy than conspiracy.”

A spokesman for the National Archives told UFO news website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell: “Due to the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to the government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election.”

Scientists have never proved the existence of alien-life – but remain hopeful with new discoveries such as Earth-like planet Proxima B.

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Filer’s Files #24 – 2017 The UFO Codebook - PART I

In special reports, this week’s files cover: Hungary Minister of Defense – Newspapers Reject the UFO Reports, Wendelle C. Stevens Information About the Pleiadians, The UFO Codebook, Space Objects Photographed, Cost of I SS, Oregon Mothman Returns, and Media Coup Against Trump”

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, and Texas

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Iran, England in the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.

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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Minister of Defense Hungary says Newspapers Everywhere, Reject the UFO Reports

George Keleti, the Minister of Defense in  Hungary states, “Around Szolnok many UFO reports have been received from the Ministry of Defense, which obviously and logically means that they [UFOs] know very well where they have to land and what they have to do. It is remarkable indeed that the Hungarian newspapers, in general newspapers worldwide everywhere, reject the reports of the authorities.   George Keleti, Minister of Defense, Hungary, in article by Attila Lenart entitled “Ask a Question to the Minister of Defense: George Keleti, Are You Afraid of a UFO Invasion?” Nepszava, Budapest, August 18, 1994.

Wendelle C. Stevens Information About the Pleiadians

 Lieutenant Colonel Wendelle C. Stevens USAF (ret) survey of the Pleiadians at the 7th Great UFO / ET Alien and Abduction Congress in Bordentown, New Jersey conducted a lengthy investigation of Pleiadian contact with Earth humans, Wendelle made the following observations and comparisons based on information derived from seven different contact groups. The Pleiadians are closely related to the Karadonians.

1) All who claimed to come from the Pleiades (that’s our name for them) look as much like we do, were about our same size, stature, and build, and skin color, and look just like us.  They could put on Earth street clothes and sit next to you and there may even be some in here and you’d never know the difference.

2) All articulated fluently in the language of the contactee, speaking intelligently on our sciences, history, and culture in the contactee’s language.

3) Earth humanity was descended from their own ancient ancestors from whom we had inherited our unusual aggressiveness.

4) All of them said that their ancestors had been here many times before over the ages, coming and going as conditions changed on this planet.

5) They all claimed that they had participated in some of the great events of our religious works and our native mythologies, sometimes being adored and worshipped as gods, and sometimes not, which they said they were not.  They said they were humans just like us.

 6) They refer to themselves as IHWH or Yahweh, just as we refer to ourselves as Human. It is interesting to note that the European Space Agency captured this open pit mining on Mars that has a Yahweh sign on it.

7) They all without exception deplore our misuse of our sciences, saying that our mind has outrun our spiritual development and that we have already prepared the end of our planet and our species as we know it, and that we have done this before over and over, and still have not learned this important lesson – one reason why we are back here now.  For this we are a valuable laboratory study, and many ETs from far and wide come here to observe us.  That’s scary!

8) They all travel faster than the speed of light as we know it in their interstellar ships.

9) There was no conclusive evidence that any of the groups mentioned here were in direct contact with any of the other groups mentioned.  Each of these contact cases seems to be developing separate and apart from all of the others.  I was the go-between for them all, and I didn’t mention one case to another.  I tried to keep them as far apart as I could.

10) They all mentioned other inhabited planets in what we call the Pleiades.

11) They all mentioned other extraterrestrial beings from elsewhere in the Universe coming here to study and observe Earth.  Three of them mentioned actual contact and willing cooperation with other ETs of other race types from other systems.  Three of them used robatoid – part mechanical and part organic- creatures, beings of their own manufacture in limited operational functions aboard their motherships.

12) They all used organic computers that can be controlled telepathically, and many had control systems aboard the ships that could be controlled telepathically.  They could get out of the ships, send them away telepathically, and call them back when they wanted, and go back aboard.

13) They all saw great changes in our planet in the near future, and I think we’re talking about cataclysmic changes here.

14) None of them had money as we know it, and none of them had religion as we know it or a competitive political system as we know it.

15) Three of them had active bases operating on the surface of our planet, and they shared these bases with other extraterrestrial agencies and intelligences who desired to work with them.

16) They were all capable of under ocean operations, and used our oceans to great advantage.  I guess water is no more hostile than deep space.

 17) They all used a variety of different space craft.  They weren’t limited to only one type.  They used a variety of different space craft in their operations.  They all had distinctive styles of ships and equipment and yet there were many similarities in many respects.

18) Three groups that we know of use very large carrier type motherships in deep space near our system, but not in our solar system.  And they [the motherships] were here while they were here.

19) In each case to the group of individuals who formed around the contactee new contacts and information was so mind boggling and so profound and so far exceeded their knowledge of what was going on elsewhere in the world that they carefully guarded their secret within their small group and immediate circle of friends for a number of years, and then only confided in the very trusted friends.  So this is why it wasn’t getting out.  It was too big and too profound to let it out.  Most of them felt a kind of religious awe in what was happening and thought it was kind of profane to share it with the public at large. Thanks to Bruce Cornet

The UFO Codebook by Stephen Clementson

  At a glance “The UFO Codebook” seems like a rather curious title.  But, with respect to what I’ve observed, “The UFO Codebook” is a perfectly apt title, fitting flawlessly with the bizarre world it describes.  It was developed as a response to a large number of questions, regarding the character of the paranormal.  This work doesn’t deliberately set-out to explain how these things are done, but it does venture to explain the motivation.  In my quest to explain that motivation, however, it becomes quite obvious that the driving source behind these bizarre anomalies is rather less magical than it seems.

And what exactly is the UFO Codebook?  Well, it’s the bible itself!  How I came to this conclusion is a case of seemingly endless inspection, and re-inspection, of phenomena reports.  Of course, such a lengthy enquiry had been inspired by personal experiences.  A comparison between these personal reports, and those of others, revealed a sturdy continuity.  As a matter of fact, that continuity is so incredibly sturdy that I have found it impossible to determine any end to it.  It’s like a distress beacon, flashing and beeping an endlessly repeated S-O-S message.  For this reason I have listed a number of examples, but I cannot supply that archetypal full stop.

So, the first part of that analysis involved a re-evaluation of diverse types of phenomena.  What I found, and the principle reason for that re-evaluation, was that there was no logical partition between these phenomena groups.  Indeed, after experiencing ghosts, crop circles, and UFOs, at exactly the same location, and in exactly the same time frame, it seemed exceedingly irrational to conclude that there was any separation at all.  Whilst cultural preconceptions might place strict boundaries on such things, the reality seemed to be screaming-out for a different approach.

That “sturdy continuity”, for instance, lay in the manner by which things only happened when certain conditions were met.  This was a constant, even down to the dateline and time of the occurrence.  All of these bizarre anomalies rigidly adhered to this pattern.  This was not only a case where it was logical to presume that different phenomena were related, but it was also a case wherein all phenomena groups behaved the same way.  These events were being served-up like clues.  There was no spontaneity in these events whatsoever.  There was no knee-jerk reaction to be found-not good, and not evil; just logical planning, in strict accordance with a book of rules.

It wasn’t until 1998 (some time after first embarking upon this quest) that I found out what that rule-book was.  I had spotted it, whilst summarizing my observations.  I hadn’t been looking for a book of instructions prior to that point, but the clues to their connection to the bible were indelibly printed all over these phenomena.

This biblical connection had actually been a chief feature.  And, when combined with my previous work on phenomena integration, it was pretty obvious why these phenomena had been so diverse.  These things had to reflect the diversity of the bible, and, at the very same time, they had to reflect the connection to extraterrestrials.  Inversely, I noted that the bible contained deliberately scripted paragraphs, intended to reflect its connection to extraterrestrials.

Job

 Job 38: “God’s answer to Job” is a classic, Old Testament, example of this deliberate incorporation of data to connect the bible to advanced extraterrestrial knowledge and technology written about 1000 B.C..

New International Version

The Lord Speaks explaining how he formed the Earth and the stars.

1 Then the Lord spoke to Job out of the storm. He said: Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!  Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,

10 when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’? “Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it? The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment. The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken. “Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep? Have the gates of death been shown to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness? Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this. “What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside?  Can you take them to their places? Do you know the paths to their dwellings?

 21 Surely you know, for you were already born! You have lived so many years! Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle? What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth? Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain, and a path for the thunderstorm, to water a land where no one lives, an uninhabited desert, to satisfy a desolate waste land and make it sprout with grass? Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew? From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?

30 when the waters become hard as stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen? Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth? 33

Remember these words were written three thousand years ago. NASA claims the recipe for creating a habitable planet turns out to be surprisingly simple: Just add water—and atmospheric gases.

Rule over the earth; now what would that mean?  Were they referring to the motional synchronization of constellations to the seasons, or were they referring to something else?  As a matter of fact, I noted that the repetitious biblical use of numbers 3, 6, 7, and 13, had a purposeful relationship to those very same stellar groups.

The Pleiades, for instance, is most certainly connected to the numbers 6, and 7. After all, the stars of the Pleiades were formally known as the “Seven Sisters”.  The Pleiadesian numerical anomaly is a curious talking point.  Back in the days before telescopes, when the Seven Sisters was so-named, only six of its stars had sufficient brightness to qualify for naked eye astronomy.  Following-on from that, my theory is that the number 13 was merely the product of 6+7.

There are also a great number of references to the number three in the bible, and one source would appear to be the three bright stars in Orion’s Belt.

Belt of Orion

Like the Pleiades, Orion is also mentioned in Job 38:31.  Likewise, seven bright stars in Ursa Major (“The Big Dipper”/”The Plough”: part of the Great Bear) are, in effect, mentioned in Job 38:31.

To see these things deliberately portrayed in paranormal events was quite a shock.  Yet, in case-after-case, the deliberately implanted biblical connections, together with the cross-links to those stellar references, were revealed.  To put it bluntly, all the assistance that I could want was there.  But that assistance had been discreetly implanted within paranormal experiences, and had required someone to put the effort into deciphering them.

I found that, in effect; people were being used, manipulated to various degrees, in order to pass this information on.  But why should this be?  Was this part of something that other researchers had missed?  As far as I am concerned, it seems likely to be the case that they simply haven’t understood the situation.  And, given this manipulation process, how many of them had gone to the trouble of logically deducing the inference, or even the reality, of a combined phenomena condition?

Although it looks rather like a grand cosmological chess game, with us as the pawns, there is another, somewhat less sinister, possibility.  If this was a chess game, then why let the pawns in on what is going on?  The chess game scenario does not accommodate the concept of deliberate clue implantation.  The answer seems to be that it actually isn’t a chess game, but, more likely, a method of overcoming a blockage in communication.  Looking back over the last couple of millennia, the methods used do not appear to have changed very much.  It’s as though a non-earthly agency is struggling to bypass some strictly imposed communication restrictions, and has to resort to implanting clues.

Let me propose that there is an agreement between different extraterrestrial civilizations not to directly interfere with lesser civilizations. This would certainly explain the unemotional manner by which they have operated here.  Firstly, they would have to use individuals in a clue-implanting process.  Secondly, they would have to ensure that there was no undeniable evidence left behind; this would result in directly affecting the afore-said “lesser civilization”.

In a previous epoch, exactly the same process had been employed to install religions.  This, I propose, was done by extraterrestrials, in order to civilize humanity.  My hypothesis is that humanity was, in their opinion, not in a fit state. Humans needed guidance, even if that meant camouflaging the truth, twisting history, and faking a few concepts along the way.   To be continued. Thanks to Stephen Clementson

 Space Objects Photographed

Objects photographed in space several hundred miles above Earth are not the ISS and are likely either human space craft such as Solar Warden or extraterrestrial. This is an alleged top secret aircraft or “space vehicle” which has some quite incredible abilities. The source of the information is from an Area 51 employee who started making public disclosures in 1998 after retiring from his job as an avionics engineer. Object photographed in space above the Earth by astronomer John Lenard 

So far his claims and disclosures have not been given the coverage which they undoubtedly deserve. He has hundreds of official USAF documents to back up his claims. If he is correct, as the evidence suggests, then the U.S. does have a secret space fleet consisting probably of dozens of 600 feet wide flying triangles, which can go to and from space with ease, travel at Mac 9 in any direction, traverse the solar system and even land on neighboring planets.

Multi Billions in Payments to Russia During the last Eight Years.

International Space Station Cost

The ISS, launched in 1998, is the most expensive thing ever built—$150 billion and counting. The U.S. has provided more than $100 billion of that cost. Increasing our cost is that US Space Shuttle program formally ended on August 31, 2011,  as directed by President Obama. At the time the space shuttle program ended, the three remaining shuttles had flown 25, 33, and 39 times respectively. They were designed for a lifetime of 100 flights each.

It would have been possible to continue to adapt and fly the shuttles for many more years to resupply the ISS and Solar Warden Craft out to their design lifetime.

President Clinton urged U.S. aerospace executives to look to the Russian rocket business partnerships rather than developing US made rockets. Now we’re dependent on the Russian Rocket Engine know as RD-180, which has flown 55 + times on U.S. missions with 100 percent success. And to a lesser extent, we’re dependent on the Russian NK33/AJ26 engine, which we’ve used six times with 100 percent success. The cost is about $10,000,000 each or another 500 to 600 million for the Russian RD-180 rocket engines.

US launch rockets are not considered safe enough to launch our astronauts so we must pay the Russians to get our astronauts up to the ISS that we paid for. The chart below factors in the price of a seat and the number of astronauts that NASA plans to launch (about six per year), to show how much NASA has paid Russia and could end up paying.

The total cost over 12 years is more than $3.36 billion. The US hoped the private company SpaceX could launch our astronauts. On September 1, 2016, their Falcon 9 explosion showed the US was far behind the Russians for safe human spaceflight. Unfortunately our German scientists that got us to the moon have retired or died. If we do have the TR-3B craft that will carry astronauts to Solar Warden Space Craft the Russians, Chinese, and India certainly knows it.

A Russian Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft launched an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts into orbit October 19, 2016, beginning a two-day journey to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The second upgraded Soyuz spacecraft to carry new crewmembers to the space station. The new arrivals joined NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, who have been alone on the station since September. Thanks to Space.com.

Correction: Last week’s files presented the TR-3B Patent. This patent number is in error and is likely not the actual patent and is a clever counterfeit, but does provide interesting data.

Oregon Mothman Returns

Jenny Jacobs writes, “My teenage children and I were outside painting our house. We lived on a wooded acreage about 4 miles from Newberg, Oregon on the 2-lane Wilsonville Road. I kept hearing what sounded like a very large chimpanzee in the trees behind us. Both kids have seen this black hooded figure off and on over the years. I didn’t want to quit my work but the sounds grew louder and finally there included shaking of high branches. I told the kids to take a break and we walked out to the sounds. As we were looking up, trying to see what in the heck it could be (it was very large like a man but not clearly defined shape because it kept moving) we heard the squeal of tires behind us up on the road. We could not have seen this from the house but, here, we had a clear view of a new cranberry red Mustang convertible swerving around the turn on 2 wheels. The driver overcorrected and we watched it flip 3 times across the field, landing upright.

I sprinted inside and called 911 and ran down to the road. Everything was weirdly silent…The chimpanzee was no longer there.

I ran across the road, climbed the fence and ran up to the vehicle. Both people looked in perfect condition except their heads were resting far back on the headrests. The beautiful red-headed young woman was watching me stand there. She said nothing, just followed me with her eyes. Finally, she stopped eye movements, dying. The handsome Hispanic young man was mumbling something over and over sitting with his head back, too. After a few moments, he simply stopped and stared at the sky. They both died in front of me.

If we had not been enticed to come out into the small clearing, we could not have seen this horrific accident. But it has always occurred to me “What was the point?” I could not do anything but pray for them. I couldn’t save them. We could only be an observer of a terrible moment in time. Thanks to Jenny Jacobs

Triangle and Diamond Video

Dr Bruce Cornet who received his PhD from Penn State University in 1977 in geology sends this revealing video of three different near Montgomery, New York on January 24, 1999.

The lighting on the unidentified aircraft does not match normal commercial aircraft or known military aircraft such as the C-5 known to fly in the area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFS-87utLfg

 

This Is Nothing Less Than a Coup Against Trump”

Urgent Message from Michael Reagan eldest son of former President Ronald Reagan,

Dear Friend:

I am watching the cable news channels and I am just stunned.
This is a brazen attempt to oust Donald Trump as president.
This is nothing short of a coup attempt against the duly elected president. David Horowitz predicted all of this in his bestseller “Big Agenda: President Trump’s Plan to Save America.”

If you watch CNN and MSNBC, they are now salivating about the “impeachment” of President Trump. The truth is they have been talking about this from the day he took the oath of office.
Now they are claiming a “smoking gun.”What is it?
A memo by then-FBI Director Comey – who the president just fired, claims the president tried to close down his investigation into General Flynn. Who did Comey write the memo to? Well, himself! Did he inform the attorney general, the Congress or the public about this shocking claim the president tried to obstruct justice? No, he didn’t. Sorry folks. I am not buying this! You see, when Horowitz wrote “Big Agenda” – before Trump was even elected
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Horowitz gave Trump a game plan, a road map to turn back Obama’s progressive agenda. It’s clear to me the president and his team have read, digested and implemented this secret plan in “Big Agenda.” But Horowitz also warned in “Big Agenda” that the big media, Democrats and even Republicans would do everything to stop Trump. They would throw the proverbial “kitchen sink” at him – and even try impeachment! Well, “Big Agenda” has become a prophecy book! Trump has been president for just over three months and the establishment wants him removed! And the media ignores parts of the story that don’t work for them. Take, for example, Democrats like Chuck Schumer who called for Comey to be fired months ago. (I call this hypocrisy!) Comey himself admitted he probably interfered with the 2016 election and he totally mishandled Hillary Clinton’s sordid email fiasco and Benghazi.

Make no mistake about it: They want Trump stopped. Finished, Removed from office. Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and Lou Dobbs are working to keep people informed. Despite this, the big media like CNN and NBC.  We are at war with the news media and the left. We are witnessing the worst nightmare of the American left. A Republican titan of industry has left the business world to become the chief executive of the U.S.  He was put in power by everyday Americans sick of the status quo.   Trump has made clear his interests are those of the American people.

There’s a feeling of fear about the full extent of the death blow that is being dealt to the left by Donald Trump.  The left has lost control of Congress, the Senate, the Supreme Court and the Executive Branch.  In fact over the past 8 years, Democrats have lost more than 1,000 elected offices! That is generating a feeling that the Democratic Party as we know it may not be able to rebound from this downward spiral that they have embarked upon. . . especially if Trump’s agenda is successful.  Trump’s agenda is no secret, and now he’s calling shots. They hate this. They are furious. They will do ANYTHING to stop him. Every patriotic American needs to help President Trump. In “Big Agenda” Horowitz revealed 21 major moves President Trump was going to take — and already 12 have come true! But 9 more are soon to happen.
In “Big Agenda” you’ll find out it’s not only President Trump’s road map for making America again, but a war plan in how to PERMANENTLY defeat the left. It even explains how you can help President Trump.

My dad used to ask these two questions: “If not us, who? If not now, when?” I am asking you today those same questions. I ask you to take a stand today. Get informed. Share. Support. Act!

Yours for America, Michael Reagan

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Filer’s Files #24 – 2017 The UFO Codebook - PART II

Best Space Stories of The Week!

Here Is The UFO Sighting Video Near Brainerd, Minnesota

For those who have not yet visited Highways 210 and 371, do it if you have a chance. They come together in Brainerd, a town in a north-central Minnesota with roughly 13,000 residents.

Brainerd is known as the setting for some major events in the movie Fargo. And now the town is put into the spotlight once again after a video, which is said to have been recorded at the Highway 210/371 junction, was posted online showing several bright objects.

YouTube username SuspectSky uploaded the five-minute clip that initially shows a single bright object before several others appear. Cars zooming can be heard in the background continuously, but not enough to drown out the music that SuspeckSky has piped in to give the video an added effect.

From one light, it became two, then three, and then four. In the middle of the event, the car system announces “GPS signal lost.”

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UFO Hunter Claims This Incident Is Stranger Than Roswell

A UFO hunter has shared an incident in which he referred as even stranger than Roswell in a new online video. In 1947, an unidentified flying object crash landed in the desert close to the town of Roswell, New Mexico in the U.S. The military, however, insisted that the mysterious object was not that strange at all as it was just a downed weather balloon. Despite the statement, many did not believe the official version of the incident. Many have claimed that the object was an extra-terrestrial craft.

After over 50 years, the event is still a mystery to many as they believe the government has been covering the first alien visitation.

Now, UFO researcher Tyler Glockner claims to have discovered the similarly disturbing event that took place just a month before the Roswell Incident.

Glockner made a video claiming that the crash has the same mystery and strangeness as Roswell. The video recalls the story of Maury Island Incident wherein Fred Crisman, and Harold Dahl claimed to have seen falling black debris from the skies over Maury Island in Puget Sound in Washington.

It was reported that the event involved one or more UFOs that had either crashed and disintegrated or dropped something. Crisman’s boat allegedly got damaged by the fragments, even killing a dog and according to some versions, they also hurt someone.

Accounts of the alleged extraterrestrial incident remain controversial until today. Some say that Crisman and Dahl are telling the truth, but others believe the story is a hoax.

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Comet Likely Didn't Cause Bizarre 'Wow!' Signal (But Aliens Might Have)

By Jesse Emspak, Live Science Contributor 

Alien life could be discovered within the next decade, says astronomer

Humans may find microbial life beyond Earth within the next 10-15 years but it may not be intelligent.

 By India Ashok

Nasa's new James Web space telescope to detect biomarkers, such as oxygen and methane, in the atmospheres of Earth-like planets may in turn further the search for life beyond Earth. iStock

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UFO group hopes government 'reconsiders' pulling their taxpayer funding

 By A Current Affair

Social Services Minister Christian Porter has ordered a review into why a NSW Central Coast UFO enthusiast group has pocketed nearly $6000 in taxpayer funds since 2013.

When A Current Affair attempted to attend a meeting of the Tuggerah Lakes UFO Group at Wyong RSL Club, group coordinator Joann Kanda was reluctant to talk on camera.

"Some things have happened that I don't want to go public about at the moment," Ms Kanda said of her belief in extra-terrestrials.

Despite the group having more than 1,000 Facebook followers, less than a handful of people showed up to the meeting

One of the presentations given at the meeting

Despite her desire to keep her reasons for believing private, Ms Kanda has managed to persuade the government to give her group nearly $6000 from the public purse.

Ms Kanda is "in two minds" about the review into taxpayer funding ordered by Mr Porter and would like the government to "reconsider".

"I also understand the public's perception and, you know, it's just that all the equipment we bought with our original funding, it needs repairs," she said.

Group coordinator Joann Kanda believes the funding should be kept

Wyong RSL Club, where the group host their meetings

"The laptop had extra memory so you could take photographs and analyse them.

"We bought an amplifier, which is acting up a bit, and it's got a tripod and the wireless gadget that goes with it."

Ms Kanda believes that had she named the group something else, the public purse strings would not be closing.

"I felt a bit let down. Like, I could have called it something else, you know ... basket-weaving, you know. No one would have blinked an eye," she said.

Social Services Minister Christian Porter does not believe the group deserved the taxpayer funding they have received since 2013

But Mr Porter is unlikely to reconsider his opposition to the group receiving any further funding.

"I'm sure they're all very good people, I'm sure they're all volunteering in a way that's constructive for them. But I'm just not entirely sure this meets the common sense test," Mr Porter said.

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(VIDEO) AN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER REVEALS THAT AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL WAS SHOT & KILLED

The U.S. military is developing a new class of weapons which can deliver kinetic projectiles made of large rods of solid heavy metals. Even more worrisome: they’re testing how to deliver them from space – essentially making them man-made meteorites. According to a report published by military and veteran news site Task and Purpose, leading U.S. Army officers gave a presentation at a recent defense industry conference touting the destructive potential of these weapons, some of which are already being tested in battlefield conditions.

So-called “Rod of God” kinetic bombardments have been discussed for years.

Major General William Hix, Director of Strategy, Plans & Policy for the U.S. Army, presented the status of the Army’s development of such weapons at the 2017 Booz Allen Hamilton Directed Energy Summit, a conference devoted to “developing and fielding new directed energy capabilities.” A prettier way of saying “blowing stuff the hell up.” Booz Allen Hamilton is an ambiguously-titled “management consulting firm” in Washington D.C. which has shadowy links to American defense and intelligence organizations. Anonymous accused Booz Allen Hamilton of manipulating public opinion through social media in 2011, and Edward Snowden was a Booz Allen Hamilton employee when he leaked the details of U.S. classified mass surveillance and data collection programs to The Guardian in 2013. If anyone is ever involved with secretive behind-the-scenes military industrial complex intrigue, it’s Booz Allen Hamilton.

At their conference, Major General Hix told attendees that already, the ship-mounted railgun versions of these new weapons are capable of a new level of battlefield violence:

Think of it as a big shotgun shell. Not much can survive it. If you’re in a main battle tank, if you’re a crew member, you might survive but the vehicle will be non-mission capable, and everything below that level of protection will be dead. That’s what I am talking about.

DARPA is already testing orbital weapons which can deliver kinetic payloads at hypersonic speeds – and so are China and Russia, of course. With all the strange satellite activity, secretive spacecraft testing, NASA playing asteroid strike war games, and even the White House paying public lip service to the threat of deadly near-Earth objects, it makes you wonder: could it be possible for a use of these weapons to be blamed on a meteorite strike? Conspiracy theories of a similar nature surrounded the apocalyptic 2015 explosions in Tianjin, China, as some rather imaginative sources accused the U.S. of testing kinetic space weapons on the Tianjin industrial site.

Even just a few grams of aluminum can inflict great damage when dropped from a high altitude.

I suppose like most things, it is possible, but perhaps not probable. Very few members of the public have access to primary sources of data about asteroid and meteor orbits, though. Furthermore, unseen asteroids pass dangerously close to the Earth all the time, sometimes with just a few days’ warning. A random act of the universe would be the perfect alibi for dropping a continent-ruining mass of molten tungsten onto your enemies from space. But naaaah, that stuff doesn’t actually happen. There’s no way our overlords could be that malevolent. Right?

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FBI Director’s Statement May Imply Contact with ETs

Paul Seaburn

While everyone else was looking for hints on what’s been going on between the Trump administration and Russia, the UFO community was excited about something former FBI director James Comey said during his Senate testimony that had nothing to do with politics.

… I have had many conversations with humans over the years …

That’s right, the former FBI director gave Senator John McCain that strange answer to a question about a conversation he had with the president. Ears perked up across the country on anyone with a conspiracy gear in their brain. Why did Comey add those two words … ‘with humans’? Has he had other conversations with non-humans? Was he leaking (again?) that some U.S. or world leaders he’s had conversations with were aliens … possibly reptilians? If David Icke was playing a drinking game involving doing shots every time someone hinted at the existence of reptilians, he probably ordered a triple for that one.

OK, you say, maybe Comey was making a little joke. Really? Does he look like the kind of guy who jokes around? He majored in chemistry and religion before getting his law degree and at one time helped prosecute the Gambino mafia family.

All right, he’s not a joker. Has he ever indicated an interest in UFOs, aliens or X-files? Well, there’s that period from 2005 to 2010 when Comey the General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Lockheed Martin. Yes, THAT Lockheed Martin. The one with the Skunk Works and the secret manufacturing and testing at Area 51. Why didn’t Senator McCain, or any other senator for that matter, ask him about THAT? To his credit, McCain did bring up Hillary Clinton in the next question. Was he bringing up emails or was he doing his own sly hinting at her and John Podesta’s own promises to release classified UFO documents if elected?

Are those dots too far apart to connect? Here’s one that’s even farther out. Some people speculate that the 6-foot-8 Comey, who seemed to tower over everyone in pictures of the hearing and his meetings at the White House, may actually be a tall white alien in disguise. Remember the story from 2014 from the Iranian news agency FARS that a document leaked by Edward Snowden indicated that tall white space aliens have taken over the United States? Is Comey one of them? If he’s not, maybe all of those others are so short because they‘re small grey aliens in disguise. OK, that dot may be WAY too far out.

Or is it? In 2016, the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said this in an interview:

I have gathered and listened to several leaders from other planets.

Was this really a mistranslation as some have suggested or another security slip? Is he someone else who has to remember to differentiate between conversations with humans and aliens?

Is this another cover-up that’s slowly crumbling under scrutiny? Will this drive Trump to be the first president to open the UFO files?

Dots farther apart than these have already been connected. Stranger things have already happened. Is disclosure next?

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Train passenger says six 'mothership UFOs' were beaming light down to earth

UFO investigators are looking into claims that a train passenger saw six huge objects in the sky beaming light down to the ground.

UFO hunters spot 'weird orb' while lost in hills near Boston

Three UFO hunters snapped a photo of a mysterious object while they were lost in the Blue Hills near Boston last week, according to reports.

Ramona DiFrancesco and her friends were lost for several hours Thursday night and had to be rescued by state police, WHDH-TV reported.

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DiFrancesco, 18, of Plymouth, told the station she and her friends spotted UFOs they had never seen before Thursday night.

“Well, we saw these two ships that had these like bright spotlights and then we saw this like weird orb that was like a spotlight, sort of,” she told the station.

She showed a WHDH reporter a photo of the mysterious object she said had been taken with a Nikon camera.

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They got lost on Buck Hill, The Boston Globe reported.

“Our phones were dying,” the paper quoted DiFrancesco as saying. “We didn’t have any flashlights. We were a little unprepared."

A state police helicopter spotted them and officers led them down a trail on foot.

They were not hurt.

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Comet claim for mysterious Wow signal sparks controversy

Keith Cooper

A controversial claim that the famous ‘Wow!’ signal was produced by comets and not extraterrestrial intelligence has been met with scepticism by radio astronomers and comet experts, sparking a fresh debate about the nature of this mysterious signal.

The saga of the Wow! signal dates back to 1977, when a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) survey being conducted at the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University Radio Observatory detected a powerful but unexplained burst of radio waves coming from the general direction of the constellation Sagittarius. The signal was at 1420MHz, which is the frequency of the 21cm wavelength radio waves emitted by neutral hydrogen in space. So the logic goes, any intelligent life out there transmitting signals for us to hear would know that our astronomers will be studying galactic hydrogen at 21cm and therefore be guaranteed to detect their signal. Hence, the Big Ear’s survey was conducted at 1420MHz/21cm.

Now Antonio Paris of St Petersburg College in Florida and the Center for Planetary Science, which is a non-profit research organisation based in the United States, has published new results which he argues proves that the Wow! signal was actually produced by a comet that was in the vicinity at the time. Paris followed up on this comet, 266/P Christensen, and performed radio observations with a dedicated ten-metre radio telescope to test his theory. Writing in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, he confirms that his experiment did indeed detect a signal of 1420MHz from the comet.

However, not everyone is convinced. Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast who specialises in studying comets, dismisses Paris’ conclusion as “rubbish.” Aside from the fact that 1420MHz emission has never been detected from a comet before, Fitzsimmons points out that 266/P Christensen is a fairly quiet comet even at perihelion (its closest point to the Sun, which in Christensen’s case is over twice as far from the Sun as Earth, or 2.3 astronomical units).

“[Paris] has targeted a comet that has little activity when at perihelion,” Fitzsimmons tells Astronomy Now. “When he observed the comet it was over four astronomical units from the Sun, which means it would have been effectively inactive. There would have been no hydrogen coma to detect and therefore he could not have seen the comet.”

Seth Shostak, who is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, agrees with Fitzsimmons. “I don’t know of any detection of the 21cm line of neutral hydrogen from a comet, and as I used to study galaxies in the neutral hydrogen line, I probably would have heard of that,” he says.

Paris is not troubled by this. “Astronomers have not detected hydrogen emission from comets because there has not been much research specifically on this subject,” he says. “While there has been a handful of studies, I suspect we are the first to build a ten-metre telescope to specifically look at this type of Solar System body.”

Another problem with the comet theory is that on 15 August 1977, the day that the Wow! signal was detected, the comet was in the wrong place. Bob Dixon, who was Director of the Ohio State University Radio Observatory at the time the Wow! signal was detected, points out that 266/P Christensen’s location was RA 18h 32m 15s, Declination –27º 22’, whereas the Wow! signal was either located at RA 19h 25m 31s, Declination –26º 57’, or RA 19h 28m 22s. Either way, 266/P Christensen would have been visible to the Big Ear 55 minutes earlier instead.

A signal that switched off

The uncertainty in the right ascension coordinates comes from the peculiarities of the Big Ear telescope. Rather than a traditional dish-like telescope, the Big Ear was composed of two reflectors stood on their sides, one flat and tilting, the other paraboloidal, either side of an aluminium plane on the ground that was larger than three football fields. The sky would rotate overhead in right ascension and radio waves would bounce off the reflectors and into two ‘feed horns’ that were the telescope’s detectors. Because the two feed horns were separated by 40 arcminutes in angular distance, a radio source passing overhead in the sky would appear in one horn, then disappear for 70 seconds of time, before reappearing in the second horn.

Curiously, the Wow! signal was only detected by one of the feed horns and, because of the way the data was collected and analysed, it was impossible to tell which feed horn that was. This means that the signal either switched itself on or off during those 70 seconds that it was between horns. Either it was a transient signal from some unknown astrophysical phenomenon, or the aliens turned their transmitter on or off during that 70 seconds gap.

Paris admits that this comet theory cannot explain why the signal was only seen in one feed horn. Although comets are constantly moving through the sky, unlike fixed objects such as stars, they do not move fast enough to have moved out of the line of sight of the Big Ear in just 70 seconds.

“The issue with the feed horns is something no one can explain, including me,” says Paris. “There is some data out there to suggest the issue is at the telescope end and not the phenomenon itself.”

Bob Dixon strongly disputes the idea that there was a technical fault. “Our telescope was working perfectly normally at the time and other radio astronomical objects on the same day were observed in both beams [into both horns],” he tells Astronomy Now.

Fact versus folklore

Despite the triple whammy of comets not being known to emit at 1420MHz, the unexplained detection by only one feed horn and the fact that 266/P Christensen was not in the correct location for the Wow! signal, Paris is nevertheless pushing ahead with his theory. He describes his work as a three-stage project. The first stage was the development of his hypothesis, the second stage was his radio observations that he has now published, and his third stage, which he hopes to publish in 2018, is an explanation of a mechanism describing why we would detect such strong neutral hydrogen emission from a comet, particularly one as inactive as 266/P Christensen.

Regarding the criticisms of his theory, the unflappable Paris is not concerned. “I suspect that SETI, who have used the Wow! signal as a source of revenue, are nervous,” he says. However, this is disputed by the fact that Shostak and his fellow scientists in the SETI community have frequently talked down the importance of the Wow! signal, pointing out that their experiments find signals like the Wow! signal, in that they are transient and never seen to repeat, all the time.

This August will see the fortieth anniversary of the Wow! signal, a milestone that will bring this mysterious signal, which has entered SETI folklore, into the media spotlight once again. Part of its enduring allure is the possibility that we will never really find out what it was, whether it was extraterrestrial intelligence or an unknown astrophysical phenomenon.

For now, Paris has work to do to convince other scientists like Seth Shostak that his theory is correct. Says Shostak, “I don’t think the idea that the Wow! signal was due to comets makes much sense.”

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Comet claim for mysterious Wow signal sparks controversy

Keith Cooper

A controversial claim that the famous ‘Wow!’ signal was produced by comets and not extraterrestrial intelligence has been met with scepticism by radio astronomers and comet experts, sparking a fresh debate about the nature of this mysterious signal.

The saga of the Wow! signal dates back to 1977, when a SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) survey being conducted at the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University Radio Observatory detected a powerful but unexplained burst of radio waves coming from the general direction of the constellation Sagittarius. The signal was at 1420MHz, which is the frequency of the 21cm wavelength radio waves emitted by neutral hydrogen in space. So the logic goes, any intelligent life out there transmitting signals for us to hear would know that our astronomers will be studying galactic hydrogen at 21cm and therefore be guaranteed to detect their signal. Hence, the Big Ear’s survey was conducted at 1420MHz/21cm.

Now Antonio Paris of St Petersburg College in Florida and the Center for Planetary Science, which is a non-profit research organisation based in the United States, has published new results which he argues proves that the Wow! signal was actually produced by a comet that was in the vicinity at the time. Paris followed up on this comet, 266/P Christensen, and performed radio observations with a dedicated ten-metre radio telescope to test his theory. Writing in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, he confirms that his experiment did indeed detect a signal of 1420MHz from the comet.

However, not everyone is convinced. Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University Belfast who specialises in studying comets, dismisses Paris’ conclusion as “rubbish.” Aside from the fact that 1420MHz emission has never been detected from a comet before, Fitzsimmons points out that 266/P Christensen is a fairly quiet comet even at perihelion (its closest point to the Sun, which in Christensen’s case is over twice as far from the Sun as Earth, or 2.3 astronomical units).

“[Paris] has targeted a comet that has little activity when at perihelion,” Fitzsimmons tells Astronomy Now. “When he observed the comet it was over four astronomical units from the Sun, which means it would have been effectively inactive. There would have been no hydrogen coma to detect and therefore he could not have seen the comet.”

Seth Shostak, who is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, agrees with Fitzsimmons. “I don’t know of any detection of the 21cm line of neutral hydrogen from a comet, and as I used to study galaxies in the neutral hydrogen line, I probably would have heard of that,” he says.

Paris is not troubled by this. “Astronomers have not detected hydrogen emission from comets because there has not been much research specifically on this subject,” he says. “While there has been a handful of studies, I suspect we are the first to build a ten-metre telescope to specifically look at this type of Solar System body.”

Another problem with the comet theory is that on 15 August 1977, the day that the Wow! signal was detected, the comet was in the wrong place. Bob Dixon, who was Director of the Ohio State University Radio Observatory at the time the Wow! signal was detected, points out that 266/P Christensen’s location was RA 18h 32m 15s, Declination –27º 22’, whereas the Wow! signal was either located at RA 19h 25m 31s, Declination –26º 57’, or RA 19h 28m 22s. Either way, 266/P Christensen would have been visible to the Big Ear 55 minutes earlier instead.

A signal that switched off

The uncertainty in the right ascension coordinates comes from the peculiarities of the Big Ear telescope. Rather than a traditional dish-like telescope, the Big Ear was composed of two reflectors stood on their sides, one flat and tilting, the other paraboloidal, either side of an aluminium plane on the ground that was larger than three football fields. The sky would rotate overhead in right ascension and radio waves would bounce off the reflectors and into two ‘feed horns’ that were the telescope’s detectors. Because the two feed horns were separated by 40 arcminutes in angular distance, a radio source passing overhead in the sky would appear in one horn, then disappear for 70 seconds of time, before reappearing in the second horn.

Curiously, the Wow! signal was only detected by one of the feed horns and, because of the way the data was collected and analysed, it was impossible to tell which feed horn that was. This means that the signal either switched itself on or off during those 70 seconds that it was between horns. Either it was a transient signal from some unknown astrophysical phenomenon, or the aliens turned their transmitter on or off during that 70 seconds gap.

Paris admits that this comet theory cannot explain why the signal was only seen in one feed horn. Although comets are constantly moving through the sky, unlike fixed objects such as stars, they do not move fast enough to have moved out of the line of sight of the Big Ear in just 70 seconds.

“The issue with the feed horns is something no one can explain, including me,” says Paris. “There is some data out there to suggest the issue is at the telescope end and not the phenomenon itself.”

Bob Dixon strongly disputes the idea that there was a technical fault. “Our telescope was working perfectly normally at the time and other radio astronomical objects on the same day were observed in both beams [into both horns],” he tells Astronomy Now.

Fact versus folklore

Despite the triple whammy of comets not being known to emit at 1420MHz, the unexplained detection by only one feed horn and the fact that 266/P Christensen was not in the correct location for the Wow! signal, Paris is nevertheless pushing ahead with his theory. He describes his work as a three-stage project. The first stage was the development of his hypothesis, the second stage was his radio observations that he has now published, and his third stage, which he hopes to publish in 2018, is an explanation of a mechanism describing why we would detect such strong neutral hydrogen emission from a comet, particularly one as inactive as 266/P Christensen.

Regarding the criticisms of his theory, the unflappable Paris is not concerned. “I suspect that SETI, who have used the Wow! signal as a source of revenue, are nervous,” he says. However, this is disputed by the fact that Shostak and his fellow scientists in the SETI community have frequently talked down the importance of the Wow! signal, pointing out that their experiments find signals like the Wow! signal, in that they are transient and never seen to repeat, all the time.

This August will see the fortieth anniversary of the Wow! signal, a milestone that will bring this mysterious signal, which has entered SETI folklore, into the media spotlight once again. Part of its enduring allure is the possibility that we will never really find out what it was, whether it was extraterrestrial intelligence or an unknown astrophysical phenomenon.

For now, Paris has work to do to convince other scientists like Seth Shostak that his theory is correct. Says Shostak, “I don’t think the idea that the Wow! signal was due to comets makes much sense.”

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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.

Before Stonehenge

An aerial view of the site where two massive wooden palisades once stood of the landscape. Arcaheological excavations have revealed that around 3300 B.C., anicent people built huge wooden enclosures, then burnt them down to the ground, near what is now Avebury, England.

Credit: Historic England

A massive, wooden, eyeglass-shaped monument in Avebury, England, that was set alight in ancient ceremonies may be 800 years older than it was thought to be, new research suggests.

Workers in ancient times likely constructed the site first by digging large ditches and then placing oak posts into sockets in the earth, Whittle told Live Science. Then, they used the dug-out earth to backfill and cover the base of the posts and create a huge palisade. [Read more about the strange site.]

Sequencing a Mummy

Scientists sequenced DNA from mummies from the settlement of Abusir el-Meleq, south of Cairo, and were buried between 1380 B.C. and A.D. 425.

Credit: bpk/Aegyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, SMB/Sandra Steiss

For the first time, researchers have successfully sequenced the DNA from Egyptian mummies. The findings reveal that these ancient people were more genetically similar to populations living in the eastern Mediterranean — a region that today includes Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan and Iraq — than people living in modern-day Egypt.

Worldwide, the remains of thousands of mummies from ancient Egypt have been excavated, but obtaining intact, undamaged DNA from the bodies has proved challenging. [Read more about the mummy DNA.]

Measuring a Star's Mass

This image shows an Einstein ring (middle right), which occurs when a massive object acts like a lens for light coming toward the observer from a background object. This phenomenon is known as gravitational lensing, and recently used for the first time to measure the mass of an individual star.

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The mass of Stein 2051 B, a white dwarf star located about 18 light-years from Earth, has been a subject of some controversy for over a century. Now, a group of astronomers has finally made a precise measurement of the star's mass and settled a 100-year-old debate, using a cosmic phenomenon first predicted by Albert Einstein.

Einstein's theory of general relativity hypothesized that space is flexible rather than fixed, and that massive objects (like stars) create curves in space, sort of like a bowling ball creating a curve on the surface of a mattress. The degree to which an object warps space-time depends on how massive that object is (similarly, a heavier bowling ball puts a deeper imprint on a mattress). [Read more about the experiment in relativity.]

'Thinking' Flora

Plant seeds have miniature "brains" that help them decide when to germinate. Two different regions in the root tip of the embryo release opposing hormones. When the "go" hormone levels outcompete the "stop" hormone levels, the seed germinates.

Credit: George Bassel and Matthew Jackson

Plant seeds may use miniature "brains" to help them decide whether to sprout or stay dormant, new research suggests.

The idea that plants can feel, hear or see is not new; researchers have shown that seedlings arc toward sounds of certain frequencies or hasten their growth when a competing species is planted nearby. And plants can communicate with each other when danger is nearby, according to a 2007 study in the journal Oecologia. [Read more about the plant's brain.]

Older Than We Know

The oldest bones of Homo sapiens were found at the archaeological site of Jebel Irhoud. Here, a view of the site showing the remaining deposits and people excavating them (center). Some 300,000 years ago, this site, which would have been a cave, was occupied by early hominins.

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The oldest known bones of our species, dating back around 300,000 years, have been discovered in a cave in Morocco.

Archaeologists uncovered the human fossils, including a partial skull and a lower jaw, during excavations at the archaeological site of Jebel Irhoud in Morocco that began in 2004. But the site has a much earlier excavation history: Scientists first found some of the remains of these same individuals, along with stone tools, in the 1960s during mining operations. [Read more about the oldest fossils.]

Hunting Snakes

Researchers found that cave-dwelling Cuban boas will oordinate their hunts to increase their chances of catching prey.

Credit: Vladimir Dinets/University of Tennessee

When cave-dwelling Cuban boas fancy a meal, they band together to hunt for bats by concealing themselves along the cave entrance and forming a wall of deadly snakes before launching their coordinated strikes, according to a new study on the rare occurrence of snakes hunting in packs.

And coordination among snakes to catch prey has never been proved, said study author Vladimir Dinets, a professor of psychology at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, who specializes in animal behavior. [Read more about the snake packs.]

Lost Mind of St. John Bosco

Parts of the brain of St. John Bosco are kept in glass behind the altar at the basilica of Castelnuovo, near Turin, Italy.

Credit: Andrea Cherchi

When pilgrims lined up in a church in northern Italy to pray before the relic of St. John Bosco, the revered founder of the Salesian religious order, on Saturday (June 3), they encountered a sign with an unexpected message: "Closed. Under construction."

As pressure mounted over the puzzling sign, the church revealed a shocking truth: Someone had stolen preserved brain bits of a saint. [Read more about the missing aircraft.]

Herbs and Mental Risks

A man in Italy who had developed psychosis — meaning he lost touch with reality — did so after consuming an herbal tea made with St. John's wort, according to a recent report of this case.

The case in Italy involved a 25-year-old man who was admitted to the hospital after two of his friends, who accompanied him to the hospital, told the doctors that he had been acting strangely in the past few days. The man behaved as if he were under the influence of an illegal drug, the friends said. [Read more about the unusual case.]

Instinct vs. Problem Solving

For more than a millennium, scholars have noticed a curious correlation: Atheists tend to be more intelligent than religious people.

But why does this association exist? Dutton set out to find answer, thinking that perhaps it was because nonreligious people were more rational than their religious brethren, and thus better able to reason that there was no God, he wrote. [Read more about differences.]

Novel Approach to Addiction

As heroin-related deaths soar in the United States, a group of researchers said they may be one step closer to developing a vaccine that could block the drug's addictive high.

Heroin produces a high by activating the opioid receptors in the nervous system, triggering feelings of euphoria. The danger is that the drug can also cause the body's systems to become too relaxed, causing a slowdown in breathing. A common cause of death among people who overdose on heroin is respiratory arrest. That is, the person stops breathing and dies. [Read more about the vaccine.]

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Photographer accidentally captures large UFO over Copper Mountain, Colorado

I was a front-seat passenger riding on HWY 70, a few miles North East from Copper Mountain, Colorado on June 1, 2017

We exited onto exit 190, near the Vail Pass Rest Area to take photos of the snow and the semi-frozen lake (Black Lake).

As we approached Black Lake on the service road, I began snapping photos of the lake. 4 passengers in our vehicle proceeded to exit the vehicle and take additional photos of the snow in the area and also Black Lake.

Once we were on our way back onto Hwy 70, I began to view all of my photos, and to my surprise, I had captured a UFO.

After much review of the photo, I have ruled out that the object captured in my photo could be a smashed bug on the windshield, a light from inside/outside the vehicle, an airplane, or any other reasonable object. We did not hear a sound before, during, or after the photo.

At this time of day (6:25pm) the sun was to my East (left in the photo) and you can clearly see the sun light on the top the UFO and a shadow below the UFO.

While I was snapping the photo, I was only looking at my phone screen and at the Black Lake to ensure I was centered on the lake. The driver was not looking in the direction of the UFO to notice it, and the 2 passengers were looking at their respective phones at the time that I snapped this photo.

So, there was no one that saw the UFO at the moment the photo was taken. The photo was simply taken at the exact moment this UFO was passing over the tree tops and across Black Lake. Mufon case 84246.

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Earth Faces an Increased Risk of Being Hit by an Asteroid, Astronomers Warn

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Earth may be threatened by a newly discovered branch of a stream of meteoroids, increasing the risk that the planet will be struck by a meteoroid or asteroid.
 
A team of astronomers from the Czech Academy of Sciences announced the findings on Tuesday after studying the Taurid meteoroid stream. The stream produces a meteor shower that usually has a long period of activity in October and November and produces a low number of meteors. The meteors — light phenomena that are seen when a meteoroid enters the planet’s atmosphere and vaporizes, also referred to as “shooting stars” — occur when Earth’s orbit plows into the stream of debris left behind by Comet Encke.
 
Most of these particles are quite tiny and pose no threat whatsoever, but the Czech astronomers have tracked a new branch of the stream from which particles are intersecting with the planet. The branch includes two asteroids with diameters of between 200 and 300 meters (roughly 650-1000 feet). These asteroids are not themselves on a collision course with Earth, but their identification suggests that there may be other asteroids of this size or larger lurking undiscovered within this stream.
 
As such, the astronomers are urging a concentrated search for more Taurid asteroids, to see if any potentially threatening ones exist.
 
“Since asteroids of sizes of tens to hundreds meters pose a threat to the ground even if they are intrinsically weak, impact hazard increases significantly when the Earth encounters the Taurid new branch every few years,” they write in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. “Further studies leading to [a] better description of this real source of potentially hazardous objects, which can be large enough to cause significant regional or even continental damage on the Earth, are therefore extremely important.”
 
It’s worth noting, however, that no threatening objects have yet been discovered.Though the prospect of continental damage and regional catastrophe coming from space is alarming, more observations will be needed before drawing conclusions based on the Czech team’s research.

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NASA is regularly working to anticipate the possible collision of a massive cosmic particle with Earth and assess any potential impact risks. It operates a collision monitoring system called Sentry that routinely scans for asteroids and determines the likelihood of impact over the next 100 years. It also freely catalogs these rocky bodies at the JPL Small-Body Database Browser.
 
The debris stream from Comet Encke is influenced in part by the gravity of Jupiter, a massive gas giant planet that is known to influence the orbits of comets and asteroids in that region of the solar system. As such, from time Jupiter’s gravity can redirect the debris so that more particles hit the Earth.

A bright Taurid fireball is recorded at the NASA All Sky Fireball Network station in Tullahoma, Tennessee, in 2014.

Credit: NASA During one of these “enhanced” Taurid meteor showers in 2015 caused by Encke’s redirection, the astronomers from the Czech Academy of Sciences analyzed 144 Taurid fireballs — meteors that produce a large flash when they hit the atmosphere. Observations were taken from the European Fireball Network.
 
Of the analyzed fireballs, about 113 of them have common characteristics, including sharing approximately the same orbit. The astronomers concluded, based on previous showers, that these fireballs come from a new branch of the Taurid stream being redirected by Jupiter’s gravity.

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Next, the astronomers analyzed the orbital paths of asteroids 2015 TX24 and 2005 UR. Due to their similarities to the newly discovered path of the Taurid fireballs, the astronomers in turn argued that these two asteroids — each about 200-300 meters in diameter — are also members of the new branch.
 
Analysis of the fireballs suggests that the large asteroids are weak in structure, although at larger sizes they would not break up easily in the Earth’s atmosphere.
 
A few years ago, NASA created a Planetary Defense Coordination Office to bring together the observations of all US networks looking for near-Earth asteroids, and to help come up with plans in the unlikely chance that the Earth is under threat. You can read more about the office’s work at its website. Other countries, such as the European Union, have similar asteroid observation networks in place.

Original article on Seeker.

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