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Woensdag 26 juli 2017

Space sounds like an eerie chorus of 'alien birds'

Space sounds like an eerie chorus of 'alien birds'

Signals was recorded by the Van Allen Probes B spacecraft EMFISIS Waves instrument on September 20, 2016. The measurements of three orthogonal magnetic antennas Bu, Bv, and Bw were combined to make the 60 second stereo audio recording. Video courtesy Space Audio on YouTube.

If you ask Craig Kletzing, the recordings echo the chirping of crickets. To his wife, they sound like a chorus of alien birds.

But there is no life where these sounds are made, in the dazzling and dangerous stream of highly charged particles that surrounds our planet. For years, Kletzing, a physics professor at the University of Iowa, has been monitoring the radio waves that undulate through the void around Earth. When the data is turned into sound files, the result is an eerie cosmic symphony.

Van Allen Probes B: Exotic Chorus 2014-03-13

Van Allen Probes B: "Wild Whistlers" 2016-09-20

Van Allen Probes A: "Spooky Chorus" 2016-10-27

Although space is a vacuum, it is neither empty nor quiet. Just above our atmosphere exist two belts of energetic particles from the sun that get trapped by Earth's magnetic field. This phenomenon is vital to making our planet livable; the captured electrons and protons zip back and forth between Earth's magnetic poles instead of streaming through the atmosphere to bombard the surface. But the zones where these particles dwell, called the Van Allen Belts, are still dangerous: The trapped particles pose a threat to satellites and astronauts at the International Space Station, and the belts play a role in space weather that can destroy power grids on the ground.

"There are lots of practical reasons," to be interested in the Van Allen belts, Kletzing said. The physics of this violent region is fascinating in and of itself. Fluctuating electric and magnetic fields plow through the cloud of charged particles, called plasma, stealing energy from some particles and giving it to others, pushing them to high speeds.

In 2012 NASA launched the Van Allen Space Probes, twin robotic crafts that orbit the Earth and monitor this roiling envelope of charged particles. The probes carried a suite of instruments called EMFISIS, short for Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (apparently all aspiring physicists and astronomers take "Intro to Backronyms" before they get their PhDs). EMFISIS is designed to detect radio waves rippling around the Earth.

A cutaway model of the Van Allen radiation belts.

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"It's literally like sticking a microphone out into space, but instead of listening to sound waves we're listening to electromagnetic waves," said Kletzing, EMFISIS's lead investigator.

Humans can't hear all the activity in the Van Allen belts. Our ears respond only to sound waves, which we sense via the vibration of molecules that are disturbed by the waves as they propagate through the air. Space is airless - practically void of matter - and therefore soundless.

But the electromagnetic waves are in the same frequency range as the part of the sound spectrum that is audible to humans. It was a simple matter to translate those radio waves as MP3s - turning EMFISIS data into a radio broadcast from the heavens.

One variety of wave sounded like Star Wars light sabers. These "whistler waves" were generated by lightning in the Earth's atmosphere, but escaped and bounced along the magnetic field. The lightning generates waves at multiple frequencies, and the faster (higher-pitched) waves reached the sensors just before the slower (and lower-pitched ones), resulting in the signature falling pitch that gives these waves their name.

When waves propagate through the plasmasphere - the shell of relatively low-energy plasma that encases the Earth just above the atmosphere - they generate what's known as plasmaspheric hiss.

Beyond the plasmasphere, where the plasma is warmer, electrons are pushed around in explosions generated by tangled lines of the Earth's magnetic field. As the particles from the sun are pushed toward the night side of the Earth, lower-energy particles create the "chorus" waves that Kletzing's wife said sounded like alien birds.

"There's a side of me that listens to it and says 'Wow, what interesting wave forms,' " Kletzing said. "But there's also a piece that just listens, and there's sort of an amazement at a certain level that the universe produces things that you recognize: birds, and in the background it sounds to me ... like crickets chirping."

The cricket-like sounds are compelling to Kletzing, not just because they evoke a languid summer evening. These sounds suggest that there could be smaller waves in space that trigger the larger ones - something Kletzing never noticed when he simply looked at the data on a computer screen.

"There's little bits of stuff in there that our ear can kind of pick out . . . that your eye on a plot doesn't do quite the same way," Kletzing said.

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Woensdag 26 juli 2017

How Robots Are Getting Better at Making Sense of the World

How Robots Are Getting Better at Making Sense of the World

Peter Rejcek

The multiverse of science fiction is populated by robots that are indistinguishable from humans. They are usually smarter, faster, and stronger than us. They seem capable of doing any job imaginable, from piloting a starship and battling alien invaders to taking out the trash and cooking a gourmet meal.

The reality, of course, is far from fantasy. Aside from industrial settings, robots have yet to meet The Jetsons. The robots the public are exposed to seem little more than over-sized plastic toys, pre-programmed to perform a set of tasks without the ability to interact meaningfully with their environment or their creators.

To paraphrase PayPal co-founder and tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel, we wanted cool robots, instead we got 140 characters and Flippy the burger bot. But scientists are making progress to empower robots with the ability to see and respond to their surroundings just like humans.

Some of the latest developments in that arena were presented this month at the annual Robotics: Science and Systems Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The papers drilled down into topics that ranged from how to make robots more conversational and help them understand language ambiguities to helping them see and navigate through complex spaces.

Improved Vision

Ben Burchfiel, a graduate student at Duke University, and his thesis advisor George Konidaris, an assistant professor of computer science at Brown University, developed an algorithm to enable machines to see the world more like humans.

In the paper, Burchfiel and Konidaris demonstrate how they can teach robots to identify and possibly manipulate three-dimensional objects even when they might be obscured or sitting in unfamiliar positions, such as a teapot that has been tipped over.

The researchers trained their algorithm by feeding it 3D scans of about 4,000 common household items such as beds, chairs, tables, and even toilets. They then tested its ability to identify about 900 new 3D objects just from a bird’s eye view. The algorithm made the right guess 75 percent of the time versus a success rate of about 50 percent for other computer vision techniques.

In an email interview with Singularity Hub, Burchfiel notes his research is not the first to train machines on 3D object classification. How their approach differs is that they confine the space in which the robot learns to classify the objects.

“Imagine the space of all possible objects,” Burchfiel explains. “That is to say, imagine you had tiny Legos, and I told you [that] you could stick them together any way you wanted, just build me an object. You have a huge number of objects you could make!”

The infinite possibilities could result in an object no human or machine might recognize.

To address that problem, the researchers had their algorithm find a more restricted space that would host the objects it wants to classify. “By working in this restricted space—mathematically we call it a subspace—we greatly simplify our task of classification. It is the finding of this space that sets us apart from previous approaches.”

Following Directions

Meanwhile, a pair of undergraduate students at Brown University figured out a way to teach robots to understand directions better, even at varying degrees of abstraction.

The research, led by Dilip Arumugam and Siddharth Karamcheti, addressed how to train a robot to understand nuances of natural language and then follow instructions correctly and efficiently.

“The problem is that commands can have different levels of abstraction, and that can cause a robot to plan its actions inefficiently or fail to complete the task at all,” says Arumugam in a press release.

In this project, the young researchers crowdsourced instructions for moving a virtual robot through an online domain. The space consisted of several rooms and a chair, which the robot was told to manipulate from one place to another. The volunteers gave various commands to the robot, ranging from general (“take the chair to the blue room”) to step-by-step instructions.

The researchers then used the database of spoken instructions to teach their system to understand the kinds of words used in different levels of language. The machine learned to not only follow instructions but to recognize the level of abstraction. That was key to kickstart its problem-solving abilities to tackle the job in the most appropriate way.

The research eventually moved from virtual pixels to a real place, using a Roomba-like robot that was able to respond to instructions within one second 90 percent of the time. Conversely, when unable to identify the specificity of the task, it took the robot 20 or more seconds to plan a task about 50 percent of the time.

One application of this new machine-learning technique referenced in the paper is a robot worker in a warehouse setting, but there are many fields that could benefit from a more versatile machine capable of moving seamlessly between small-scale operations and generalized tasks.

“Other areas that could possibly benefit from such a system include things from autonomous vehicles… to assistive robotics, all the way to medical robotics,” says Karamcheti, responding to a question by email from Singularity Hub.

More to Come

These achievements are yet another step toward creating robots that see, listen, and act more like humans. But don’t expect Disney to build a real-life Westworld next to Toon Town anytime soon.

“I think we’re a long way off from human-level communication,” Karamcheti says. “There are so many problems preventing our learning models from getting to that point, from seemingly simple questions like how to deal with words never seen before, to harder, more complicated questions like how to resolve the ambiguities inherent in language, including idiomatic or metaphorical speech.”

Even relatively verbose chatbots can run out of things to say, Karamcheti notes, as the conversation becomes more complex.

The same goes for human vision, according to Burchfiel.

While deep learning techniques have dramatically improved pattern matching—Google can find just about any picture of a cat—there’s more to human eyesight than, well, meets the eye.

“There are two big areas where I think perception has a long way to go: inductive bias and formal reasoning,” Burchfiel says.

The former is essentially all of the contextual knowledge people use to help them reason, he explains. Burchfiel uses the example of a puddle in the street. People are conditioned or biased to assume it’s a puddle of water rather than a patch of glass, for instance.

“This sort of bias is why we see faces in clouds; we have strong inductive bias helping us identify faces,” he says. “While it sounds simple at first, it powers much of what we do. Humans have a very intuitive understanding of what they expect to see, [and] it makes perception much easier.”

Formal reasoning is equally important. A machine can use deep learning, in Burchfiel’s example, to figure out the direction any river flows once it understands that water runs downhill. But it’s not yet capable of applying the sort of human reasoning that would allow us to transfer that knowledge to an alien setting, such as figuring out how water moves through a plumbing system on Mars.

“Much work was done in decades past on this sort of formal reasoning… but we have yet to figure out how to merge it with standard machine-learning methods to create a seamless system that is useful in the actual physical world.”

Robots still have a lot to learn about being human, which should make us feel good that we’re still by far the most complex machines on the planet.

Image Credit: Alex Knight via Unsplash

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Woensdag 26 juli 2017

Scientist ‘solves’ mystery of the Bermuda Triangle – by claiming there was no mystery in the first place

Scientist ‘solves’ mystery of the Bermuda Triangle – by claiming there was no mystery in the first place

Karl Kruszelnicki says everything can be explained by human error, bad weather, and heavy air and sea traffic – not alien abduction or energy beams from the lost city of Atlantis

Adam Lusher

There has been decades of speculation about 'mysterious' disappearances in the triangle of ocean between Bermuda, Florida, and Puerto Rico Getty

Defying 70 years of fevered speculation, a sceptical scientist has dared to declare that the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle has been ‘solved’ – by claiming there was no mystery in the first place.

Karl Kruszelnicki has insisted the reason why so many ships and planes vanish without trace in the area between Bermuda, Florida, Puerto Rico is nothing to do with aliens or fire-crystals from the lost city of Atlantis.

Instead, the Australian scientist ‘revealed’, the high number of disappearances is explained by nothing more supernatural than plain old human error plus bad weather and the fact that lots of planes and ships enter that area of the Atlantic Ocean in the first place.

Mr Kruszelnicki told news.com.au that not only does the Bermuda Triangle - (aka ‘Hodoo Sea’, ‘Devil’s Triangle’, ‘Limbo of the Lost’ and other headline-friendly monikers) – cover a large, 700,000 square-kilometre (270,000 square-mile) swathe of ocean, it is also a particularly busy patch of sea.

“It is close to the Equator, near a wealthy part of the world – America - therefore you have a lot of traffic,” he said.

So, said Mr Kruszelnicki, when you then compare the number of disappearances to the large quantity of ships and planes passing through the Bermuda Triangle, you find there is nothing out of the ordinary about the area at all.

“According to Lloyd’s of London and the US Coastguard,” he said, “The number that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle is the same as anywhere in the world on a percentage basis.”

Sydney University for communicating science to the broader community, also said there were simple explanations for the disappearance that did the most to start the whole Bermuda Triangle speculation: the loss of “Flight 19.”

This was a flight of five US Navy TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that set off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on December 5 1945 for a routine two-hour training mission over the Atlantic.

After losing radio contact with their base, all five planes vanished. No trace of them or their 14 crew members was found.

Even more spookily, it was later claimed, a PBM-Mariner seaplane dispatched that night on a search-and-rescue mission to find Flight 19 also disappeared, along with its 13 crew.

In the absence of either knowledge or fact-checking, speculation about Flight 19 became a growth industry, especially after 1964, when the writer Vincent Gaddis advanced his theories in an article entitled The Deadly Bermuda Triangle.

“Whatever this menace that lurks within a triangle of tragedy so close to home,” he wrote, “It was responsible for the most incredible mystery in the history of aviation - the lost patrol.

“This relatively limited area is the scene of disappearances that total far beyond the laws of chance. Its history of mystery dates back to the never-explained, enigmatic light observed by Columbus when he first approached his landfall in the Bahamas.”

As well as pointing out that Lloyd’s of London would disagree with Gaddis’ statistical analysis, Mr Kruszelnicki also offered simple explanations for the loss of Flight 19.

For a start, he said, despite Gaddis suggestion the patrol vanished in ideal flight conditions, “It wasn’t fine weather, there were 15m (49ft) waves.”

Mr Kruszelnicki added that the only truly experienced pilot in the flight was its leader, Lieutenant Charles Taylor, and his human error may well have played a part in the tragedy.

“[He] arrived with a hangover, flew off without a watch, and had a history of getting lost and ditching his plane twice before,” said Mr Kruszelnicki.

Radio transcripts from before the patrol vanished, he added, made it clear that Flight 19 had become unsure of its position.

The transcripts show Lt Taylor thought his compass had malfunctioned and that he was above Florida Keys - a string of islands stretching to the southwest of the US mainland - when in fact later analysis by ground staff would show he was to the southeast, near an island in the Bahamas.

Mr Kruszelnicki said Lt Taylor overruled a junior pilot who said they should turn west, and insisted the patrol fly east, unwittingly taking them further into the Atlantic, above deep water where it might be harder to find sunken planes or bodies.

“If you read the radio transcripts,” said Mr Kruszelnicki, “Some of the junior pilots are saying, ‘Why don’t we fly to the west?’, and the pilot says, ‘Why don’t we fly to the east?’”

Even more damningly for the Bermuda Triangle ‘mystery’, said Mr Kruszelnicki, was the fate of the search-and-rescue seaplane that according to Gaddis and others also vanished.

“It didn’t vanish without a trace,” said Mr Kruszelnicki. “[It] was seen to blow up.”

There were several witnesses to the explosion; an oil slick and debris were found; and after the disaster, the US Navy grounded all other PBM-Mariner seaplanes. The aircraft had already gained the ominous nickname ‘flying gas tanks’.

It remains to be seen, however, whether Mr Kruszelnicki, a popular science pundit on Australian TV and radio, will succeed in his attempt to close down the Bermuda Triangle ‘mystery’.

Very similar efforts have been made in the past.

Lloyd’s of London has been saying that Bermuda Triangle disappearances occur at the same rate as everywhere else since at least 1975.

That, however, was a bad year for Bermuda Triangle debunking, because Charles Berlitz’s book The Bermuda Triangle, published in 1974, was on its way to selling 20 million copies in 30 languages.

By 1977 the Bermuda Triangle had gained such mass appeal that Steven Spielberg included references to it in his avowedly fictional film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which depicted the crews of Flight 19 as having been abducted by aliens.

Seemingly undaunted, Lloyd’s of London has regularly repeated its claims about the unremarkable nature of the Bermuda Triangle.

In 1997 a spokesman backed up the claim that “There are just as many losses as in other wide expanses of ocean”, by adding that insurance premiums for voyages through the Bermuda Triangle were no higher than for any other routine sea journey.

This, however, had little noticeable effect.

The theories have proliferated, despite the fact that Gaddis’ Deadly Bermuda Triangle article had been published in an American magazine that sometimes promoted itself as “the magazine of masterpiece fiction”.

And despite the fact that Berlitz’s bestseller linked the Mary Celeste to the Bermuda Triangle, even though the ship had been found abandoned off the Azores, on the other side of the Atlantic, and its New York-Italy route would have taken it nowhere near the triangle.

It is now possible to go online and find theories that dismiss such absurd notions as planes and ships disappearing into some sort of black hole or time warp within the Bermuda Triangle, and instead explain: “The Bermuda Triangle is situated more or less in the middle of an area of the Atlantic Ocean that once housed Atlantis.

“When Atlantis was destroyed it sank to the very bottom of the ocean. While the ruined temples now play host to multitudinous underwater creatures, the great Atlantean fire-crystals that once provided so much of the tremendous power and energy that was found in Atlantis still exist.

“And they are still emitting strong energy beams into the universe.

“From time to time, the force field emitted by these damaged Atlantean fire-crystals becomes very powerful and any plane or ship coming within the influence of this force field disintegrates and is transformed into pure energy.”

New theories are constantly being put forward, some with a kernel of scientific truth to them.

Some have attributed Bermuda Triangle disappearances to explosive releases of methane gas, trapped as methane hydrate inside an icy crystalline cage of water molecules beneath the cold seabed of the deep ocean.

Such blowouts, it has been suggested, could release a giant plume of gas that could cause the sea to bubble like it was boiling, sinking ships because the resulting foam was much less dense than the water on which vessels normally floated.

The gas could also rise into the sky, producing a mixture of 5-15 per cent methane that would explode on contact with a hot aeroplane engine exhaust.

One United States Geological Survey scientist consulted on this theory admitted a gas hydrate blowout could indeed sink ships in the manner described.

The only problem, he said, that the most recent naturally-occurring hydrate gas blowout off the south-eastern US “probably occurred at the end of the glacial episode … about 15,000 years ago or more, when the more technically advanced men's ships were probably nothing more than hollow logs.”

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Woensdag 26 juli 2017

ROSWELL UFO SHOCK CLAIM: 'I drove crashed flying saucer away on back of truck'

ROSWELL UFO SHOCK CLAIM: 'I drove crashed flying saucer away on back of truck'

SHOCK new details of a previously unknown "witness" to the alleged Roswell UFO crash have surfaced.

By JON AUSTIN

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Claims have emerged that a man said he had driven the Roswell UFO on a truck.

Investigators at the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) received an anonymous letter about an incident in around 1982 that could have helped shed light on the ongoing mystery.

The Roswell myth has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.

But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.

Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were allegedly taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.

The letter was sent to the US organisation in January, but details have just emerged after MUFON finished investigating the case.

It claims in around 1982, Jose “Che” Teran went into C&M tyre shop on Yarborough Drive in El Paso, Texas, as a customer, and told staff he was "personally involved in the Roswell Crash Incident."

A MUFON investigation report into the letter by Robert Spearing said: "According to the anonymous report sent to MUFON, Che said he was a truck driver with the US Army from an unknown location.

"He saw a damaged craft loaded onto his truck from viewing out his rearview mirrors. He saw a tarp covering it later.

"He was instructed by military personnel to sign a non-disclosure statement saying he saw nothing at risk of losing his military pension."

The letter said the story was overheard by a mechanic at C&M.

Che was said to be a regular customer, and would often tell staff the story.

The anonymous letter writer said it had been relayed to him by an employee of C&M.

MUFON, the world's biggest organisation dedicated to UFO and alien research, has concluded investigating the claims.

He saw a damaged craft loaded onto his truck from viewing out his rearview mirrors. He saw a tarp covering it later.

Anonymous letter to MUFON

Investigators located Jose Che Teran’s stepson Fernando Jimenez, 77, and asked if he knew the story of the Roswell incident with his stepdad’s participation.

However, he was unable to find any living C&M staff.

The report said: "Mr Jimenez, frail and ailing, was sincere and cooperative. However, his knowledge was minimal.

"He could not recall the branch of service his step father was employed with.

"He also stated that he was well aware of the Roswell Crash Incident through television and newspaper accounts but his step-father never discussed the story with him."

Mr Teran was otherwise childless.

The MUFON report added: "James Clarkson of (MUFON) made a very astute discovery in the course of the investigation.

"The anonymous witness stated Jose Che Teran was a truck driver with the Army.

"His tombstone at Fort Bliss National Cemetery shows Mr Teran was a member of the Navy.

"His participation as a truck driver in the middle of a desert area is suspect."

The anonymous writer also claimed there was a conspiracy underway, with all online records about Mr Teran infected with a virus.

MUFON found no evidence to back this up.

The report added: "This report is mostly without merit and certainly inconclusive as far as physical or testimonial evidence."

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Woensdag 26 juli 2017

How the U-2 Aircraft Made Area 51 Synonymous With UFOs

How the U-2 Aircraft Made Area 51 Synonymous With UFOs

BY MICHELE DEBCZAK

MASTER SGT. ROSE REYNOLDS, U.S. AIR FORCE, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS // PUBLIC DOMAIN

Area 51 may be the world’s most famous secret military base. Established on an abandoned airfield in the Nevada desert, the facility has fueled the imaginations of conspiracy theorists scanning the skies for UFOs for decades. But the truth about Area 51’s origins, while secretive, isn’t as thrilling as alien autopsies and flying saucers.

According to Business Insider, the U.S. government intended to build a base where they could test a top-secret military aircraft without drawing attention from civilians or spies. That aircraft, the U-2 plane, needed to fly higher than any other manmade object in the skies. That way it could perform recon missions over the USSR without getting shot down.

How the U-2 Aircraft Made Area 51 Synonymous With UFOs

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Woensdag 26 juli 2017

Could 'secret hangar' near Area 51 described by 'mole' Bob Lazar hide crashed Roswell UFO?

Could 'secret hangar' near Area 51 described by 'mole' Bob Lazar hide crashed Roswell UFO?

IN 1989 an alleged mole from the highly top secret Area 51 US Air Force base came forward with staggering claims about the facility.

By JON AUSTIN

Bob Lazar, 58, said he reverse engineered recovered crashed alien flying saucers to try to develop their anti-gravity flying systems, at the mysterious base, which is guarded by armed security.

He spoke of UFOs being hidden in hangars carved out of the mountain sides close to the Nevada military base which is tucked away in the desert.

Mr Lazar's claims have divided the UFO community ever since, with many believing he a credible whistleblower, while others say he is a fantasist who has been debunked.

Now, two brothers claim they may have found something near Area 51, that sounds similar to what Mr Lazar described.

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Claims have been made this could be the hiding place of the Roswell UFO at Area 51

The US Government did not acknowledge the existence of Area 51 until 2013, but it is now commonly accepted research is done their on new USAF spy craft.

However, conspiracy theorists are convinced that if flying saucers have ever crashed on Earth, the wreckage and alien bodies have been secretly taken to storage in Area 51.

One long-running claim is a UFO that allegedly crashed in the New Mexico desert near Roswell in 1947 and it is now stored at Area 51.

Blake and Brett Cousins run YouTube channel Thirdphaseofmoon, which runs videos about UFOs and aliens.

The brothers claim they have found what they believe could be a “UFO hangar” buried into the mountains nearby to the base, reports Dailystar.co.uk.

They used Google Earth to show aerial images of the strange sighting.

Blake said: “Right in this mountain range, if you see this driveway it seems to lead to some kind of hidden underground entrance.

“Are these two entries to a base within this mountain range?

“Are they harvesting minerals out of this mountain or is this an entrance to a military base?

“These are never-before-seen images. Is this a possible entrance where they’re hiding the UFOs and flying saucers recovered from Roswell?”

Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since in July 1947 the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.

But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.

Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.

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These are never-before-seen images. Is this a possible entrance where they’re hiding the UFOs and flying saucers recovered from Roswell?

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The brothers' clip has been seen more than 35,000 times since it was posted.

One viewer said: "Whatever they have hidden from people there, must be huge.”

Another said: “The mountain itself looks almost like an alien craft.”

A third added: “That underground facility might be used for the storage of nuclear weapons or nuclear waste.”

Mr Lazar's claims have been looked into by UFO researches and many claim that his alleged educational background does not stand up, as facilities he claims to have attended have no record of him.

However, Mr Lazar counter claimed his record had been wiped by the security services in a bid to discredit him.

Thirdphaseofmoon has also come in for its own criticism by UFO debunkers.

Third Phase of Moon features on a number of UFO website and YouTube channel black lists created by sceptical ufologists, who claim they have screened hoax and misrepresented footage.

The brothers deny this, claiming to be genuine researchers.

However, this month, they release a video alleging to show a new UFO just outside Dos Palos off Interstate 5 in California.

Yet, Scott Brando, who runs hoax-busting website ufoofinterest.org, says he tracked down the original footage... and it was a confirmed weather balloon filmed over Dos Palos, and videoed FIVE years ago

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Woensdag 26 juli 2017

Triangle-shaped craft over Oregon

Triangle-shaped craft over Oregon

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This triangle UFO was recently filmed over Oregon.

Witness report:

New capture over Oregon. Similar in shape to footage from 2011. Fortunately a star is noticed to help provide perspective and travel direction. Some frame by frame analysis of clearer images to notice the subtle changes about the lights such as colors changing on each corner to red and/or yellow. Other smaller and dimmer openings are hinted at but unfortunately the pixelated image doesnt prove definitive. Sorry the image stabilization is not as good on the camera as original. Captured at the last second while looking over my shoulder moving quietly…

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Woensdag 26 juli 2017

Locals Baffle With Multiple UFO Sightings Across Cornwall

Locals Baffle With Multiple UFO Sightings Across Cornwall

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A substantial evidence of alien life has been found over Cornwall as what some UFO hunters believed. Dozens of locals claimed to have seen a strange translucent, shimmering craft in the sky over the past week.

The bizarre event was first observed on Monday. Surfer Kiefer Krishnan caught the odd phenomenon on his Go-Pro camera and uploaded it to Instagram.

Since then, dozens of videos were uploaded to social media sites that were recorded in different locations across England’s southwestern tip.

Some suggestions state that it could be a flock of birds or insects. However, experts say that this is unlikely because it has the same shape over several days in similar locations.

Others say that it could be from the Eden Project performing a public stunt. The Eden Project is scheduled to open its new Journey Into Space attractions on this 27th of July 2017.

Eden Project spokesperson said that they have a galaxy of ways to the tell the story of space, coining a phrase that the truth is out there.

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Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

Maan zou wel eens meer water kunnen bevatten dan gedacht en dat heeft gevolgen voor toekomstige ruimtemissies - HLN.be

Maan zou wel eens meer water kunnen bevatten dan gedacht en dat heeft gevolgen voor toekomstige ruimtemissies - HLN.be

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Wetenschappers van de Amerikaanse Brown University hebben ontdekt dat onze maan mogelijks niet zo dor is als we denken. Ze vonden grote waterreserves onder de oppervlakte en die zouden in de toekomst de dorst kunnen lessen van astronauten op ruimtemissie.

De onderzoekers ontdekten de sporen van water door gebruik te maken van satellietdata. "Pas een tiental jaar geleden vonden wetenschappers het eerste echte bewijs van water op de maan, in afzettingen die de Apollomissies mee terugbrachten", zegt Shuai Li, een van de auteurs van de studie. "Ze vonden over de hele oppervlakte van de maan vulkanische gesteenten die ongewoon hoge concentraties water bevatten onder de oppervlakte, in vergelijking met het omliggende terrein."

Rijk
De ontdekking van water in die eeuwenoude afzettingen voedde het idee dat de oppervlakte van de maan wel eens rijker zou kunnen zijn aan water dan eerst gedacht. "Een belangrijke vraag is of de stalen die Apollo meebracht representatief zijn voor de hele oppervlakte van de maan of eerder wijzen op zeldzame waterrijke gebieden in een anders droge mantel", aldus hoofdauteur Ralph Milliken.

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"Aangezien de stalen van over de hele oppervlakte van de maan kwamen, denken we dat het niet om een anomalie gaat", gaat hij verder. "Dankzij satellietdata kunnen we ook vulkanisch materiaal bestuderen dat niet werd meegenomen door de Apollomissies. Het vertoont allemaal sporen van water. Wat onze these bevestigt."

Mars
Volgens de wetenschap zou de maan ontstaan zijn uit puin van de aarde, dat vrijkwam nadat een object ter grootte van Mars insloeg op onze planeet. Dat gebeurde toen ons zonnestelsel pas werd gevormd. Wetenschappers namen aan dat de hitte die bij de botsing vrijkwam zó groot was, dat alle waterstof - nodig om water te vormen - verloren ging. "Het aantal aanwijzingen dat er water in de maan zou zitten neemt toe en suggereert dat het op een of andere manier toch overleefde. Of dat het op de maan kwam door de impact van asteroïden of kometen nog voor de maan helemaal verhard was", aldus Li.

De resultaten van het onderzoek staan vandaag in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Nature Geoscience.

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Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

Stephen Hawking waarschuwt: "Aliens kunnen onze planeet plunderen" - HLN.be

Stephen Hawking waarschuwt: "Aliens kunnen onze planeet plunderen" - HLN.be

Bron: The Independent

Astrofysicus Stephen Hawking is niet overtuigd van de goede intenties van mogelijks buitenaards intelligent leven: "Het zou kunnen uitdraaien zoals de indianen toen ze Columbus ontmoetten".

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Astrofysicus Stephen Hawking waarschuwt dat we maar beter behoedzaam zijn wanneer we proberen te communiceren met mogelijke buitenaardse beschavingsvormen. Intelligente 'aliens' zouden volgens Hawking wel eens plunderaars kunnen zijn die het op de bestaansmiddelen van vruchtbare planeten zoals de onze hebben gemunt die ze veroveren en koloniseren.

Hawking herhaalt zijn waarschuwing in een nieuwe documentaire: 'Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places'. Van de mogelijks bewoonbare buitenaardse wereld, Gliese 832c, zegt hij: "Op een dag kunnen we een signaal ontvangen van dergelijke planeet, maar we moeten beducht zijn als we antwoorden. De ontmoeting met een geavanceerde samenleving zou wel eens kunnen zijn zoals de indianen die Columbus tegen het lijf lopen. Dat is niet zo goed afgelopen".

Luidruchtig
Als planeet is onze Aarde nogal luidruchtig: we zenden nu al eeuwenlang radio- en televisiesignalen de ruimte in. Sommige astronomen menen dat een buitenaardse beschaving die in staat is snel genoeg door de ruimte te reizen om onze planeet binnen te vallen met een bezettingsmacht ons al lang zou opgemerkt hebben.

Daarnaast is er ook de fermiparadox, die stelt dat er geen buitenaards leven is en dat we alleen zijn in het universum.

Reservaat
Of er is de conservatietheorie, die stelt dat meer geavanceerd leven onze planeet aan zijn lot heeft overgelaten totdat we hier een zeker niveau van ontwikkeling hebben bereikt en dat onze planeet in wezen een reservaat is.

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Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

Meer details over gemummificeerde ‘aliens’ uit Peru. Is dit één van de belangrijkste ontdekkingen van de 21e eeuw?

Meer details over gemummificeerde ‘aliens’ uit Peru. Is dit één van de belangrijkste ontdekkingen van de 21e eeuw?

Gaia.com heeft een video geplaatst waarin de graftombe te zien zou zijn waarin eerder tenminste vijf mysterieuze mummies zijn gevonden.

Volgens de website was een man genaamd Mario degene die op de resten is gestuit.

De beelden werden op internet gezet nadat wetenschappers en het World Congress on Mummy Studies in een verklaring hadden gezegd dat het ging om een hoax.

Geheime ruimte

“Mario heeft sinds de jaren negentig geholpen bij de ontdekking van veel bekende archeologische vindplaatsen in Peru,” aldus de commentaarstem.

“Hij weet wat hij doet en hij weet wat hij heeft gevonden. Wat hij heeft gevonden behoort niet toe aan bekende Zuid-Amerikaanse culturen,” klinkt het verder.

De Mexicaanse journalist Jaime Maussan zegt in de video: “In deze graftombe trof hij twee sarcofagen aan in een geheime ruimte.”

Tunnels

“In de ene ruimte lagen alleen maar voorwerpen,” vervolgde hij. “In de tweede vond hij twee middelgrote lichamen en nog een aantal kleine lichamen.”

“Het grote lichaam bevond zich buiten de sarcofaag,” zei Maussan nog.

Mario denkt dat slechts 10 procent van de site is blootgelegd, misschien nog minder, en heeft geen idee hoe diep de ondergrondse tunnels reiken.

Voorouders

Het team dat het onderzoek leidt zegt de mummies te hebben gekregen van de Franse archeoloog Thierry Jamin, die ze op zijn beurt weer kreeg van Mario.

Jamin is voorzitter van het Instituto Inkari in Peru, een ngo die zich bezighoudt met archeologie.

Maussan zei eerder tijdens een persconferentie dat de wezens die in de tombe zijn gevonden ooit samenleefden met onze voorouders.

1700 jaar oud

“Deze mummies zijn in tombes voor mensen begraven,” zei hij. “Dit betekent dat ze samenleefden met onze voorouders, geen vijanden waren en dat er sprake was van wederzijds respect.”

Hij sprak van één van de belangrijkste ontdekkingen van de 21e eeuw.

Het team claimt dat de botten 1700 jaar oud zijn en dat de wezens drie vingers aan elke hand en vreemd gevormde schedels hadden.

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Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

CIA voerde gruwelijke experimenten uit op nietsvermoedende mensen. Bestaat dit bizarre programma nog steeds?

CIA voerde gruwelijke experimenten uit op nietsvermoedende mensen. Bestaat dit bizarre programma nog steeds?

MK-ULTRA was een illegaal programma van de CIA waarbij onderzoek werd gedaan naar hersenspoeling.

Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog werden nazi-wetenschappers die onethische en gruwelijke experimenten op mensen hadden gedaan overgehaald naar de VS, om daar voor de CIA hetzelfde te gaan doen.

MK-ULTRA werd in april 1953 in het leven geroepen door toenmalig CIA-baas Allen Dulles en geleid door dr. Sidney Gottlieb.

Waarheidsserum

De CIA wilde een waarheidsserum ontwikkelen dat gebruikt kon worden tijdens ondervragingen.

Ook wilde men onderzoek doen naar het hersenspoelen van mensen, met als doel om bijvoorbeeld politieke leiders over te nemen of moorden te plegen.

Twintig jaar lang was de CIA betrokken bij een hele reeks illegale activiteiten. Nietsvermoedende proefpersonen werden onderworpen aan manieren om hun mentale staat en hersenfuncties te manipuleren.

Maling

Ze kregen drugs toegediend, werden gehypnotiseerd, uit de slaap gehouden, mishandeld, seksueel misbruikt en gemarteld.

De CIA had maling aan de Code van Neurenberg en diende gevangenen, drugsverslaafden en prostituees drugs toe om te kijken wat voor effect dat zou hebben.

Ook medewerkers van de spionagedienst, militairen, artsen en andere overheidsagenten kregen drugs toegediend.

Watergateschandaal

Zo zette de CIA meerdere bordelen op in Californië, waar klanten werden gedrogeerd.

Tegen 1962 hadden de spionagedienst en het leger een aantal drugs ontwikkeld die 100 keer krachtiger waren dan LSD.

In 1973, rond het Watergateschandaal, liet toenmalig CIA-directeur Richard Helms alle documenten over MK-ULTRA vernietigen. Hij was bang dat de geheime activiteiten van zijn dienst aan het licht zouden komen.

Topje van de ijsberg

In 1977 werden na een Wob-verzoek 20.000 documenten over het project opgedoken. Die waren per ongeluk in een ander gebouw opgeslagen.

Ex-CIA-agent Miles Copeland zei dat deze documenten slechts het topje van de ijsberg zijn. Hij zei ook dat het project nooit is stopgezet en mogelijk tot op de dag van vandaag bestaat.

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Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

Linkin Park-zanger Chester Bennington zag UFO vlak voor zijn dood. In deze video doet hij een boekje open

Linkin Park-zanger Chester Bennington zag UFO vlak voor zijn dood. In deze video doet hij een boekje open

Linkin Park-zanger Chester Bennington zag enkele maanden voor zijn dood een UFO. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Mirror.

De 41-jarige muzikant deelde zijn ervaring tijdens een gesprek met een presentator van radiozender KIIS-FM. Het fragment is onlangs op YouTube verschenen.

Over het incident, dat zich voordeed in Arizona, zei de zanger: “Het is een miljoen procent waar. Het is de enige keer dat ik iets heb gezien waar ik geen logische verklaring voor had.”

Te bizar

“Ik herinner me nog heel goed wat ik zag,” aldus Bennington. “Ik krijg nog steeds dat griezelige gevoel, dat je weet dat het niet door mensen gemaakt kan zijn. Het was te bizar.”

Het filmpje is in de dagen na zijn dood viral gegaan en al ruim 150.000 keer bekeken.

Bennington pleegde afgelopen week zelfmoord. In zijn woning in de buurt van Los Angeles werd zijn levenloze lichaam gevonden. De zanger laat zes kinderen bij twee vrouwen achter.

Geworsteld

Van de Linkin Park-frontman was bekend dat hij jarenlang heeft geworsteld met een drugs- en alcoholprobleem. Volgens sommigen zou dat komen omdat hij als kind was misbruikt.

De Linkin Park-zanger was een goede vriend van Soundgarden-zanger Chris Cornell, die in mei zelfmoord pleegde.

Tournee

Rockband Linkin Park brak in 2000 door. De band verkocht ruim 60 miljoen albums en won twee Grammy’s.

De band zat middenin een tournee door de Verenigde Staten. De rockband trad geregeld op in Nederland, een maand geleden stond Linkin Park nog in de Ziggo Dome.

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Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

INGANG VOOR UFO'S ONTDEKT IN TOP VAN STRATOVULKAAN ( VIDEO )

INGANG VOOR UFO'S ONTDEKT IN TOP VAN STRATOVULKAAN ( VIDEO )

Een aantal onderzoekers is wild enthousiast omdat zij ervan overtuigd zijn dat ze een soort hangar-deur voor UFO’s hebben ontdekt in een Amerikaanse stratovulkaan.

Het gaat hier om de inmiddels beroemde Mount Adams waar in 1947 al UFO’s werden waargenomen en waar wij de naam vliegende schotels aan te danken hebben.

In de Amerikaanse staat Washington ligt wat men noemt de Cascade Range.

De Cascade Range, Cascadegebergte of de Cascades vormen een gebergte evenwijdig aan de westkust van de Verenigde Staten. Het gebergte bestaat uit brede, besneeuwde toppen met een vulkanische oorsprong. Veel van deze vulkanen zijn ook tegenwoordig nog actief. Het gebied loopt van noord naar zuid vanaf Brits-Columbia door de Amerikaanse staten Washington en Oregon tot aan het Shasta Cascade-gebied in het noorden van Californië.

Eén van die stratovulkanen is Mount Adams dat met zijn ruim 3.700 meter hoogte een indrukwekkende verschijning is.

Deze berg is heel goed te zien vanaf de ranch van James Gilliland, de man die bekend is geworden omdat hij er dikwijls in slaagt om op commando UFO’s te laten verschijnen.

Er zijn dan ook altijd gasten te vinden op deze ECETI ranch en een aantal van hen heeft nu een bijzondere ontdekking gedaan aangaande Mount Adams.

Deze speciale vulkaan werd al in verband gebracht met UFO’s door de spectaculaire waarneming van Kenneth Arnold destijds. Dit gebeurde enkele weken voor de crash bij Roswell en wie dit bijzondere verhaal wil lezen, kan dat hier doen.Arnold is ook de man van wie de uitdrukking “vliegende schotel” afkomstig is.

Enkele dagen geleden maakten gasten foto's en video-opnames van de berg die vanaf de ECETI ranch heel goed te zien is.

Echter, tot hun stomme verbazing zien ze op één van de toppen van Mount Adams iets merkwaardigs. Iets dat lijkt op een ingang of een soort deur voor een hangar.

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De avond voordat men dit ontdekt, zitten er ’s avonds een aantal gasten in de tuin en tot hun stomme verbazing zien ze een grijs uitziend object vliegen dat qua vorm veel weg heeft van wat Kenneth Arnold destijds zag. Een klassieke of ook wel retro UFO genoemd.

In de dagen nadat ze ingang hebben ontdekt, blijven de gasten op de ranch foto’s maken en ja hoor, daarop zijn UFO’s te zien, zoals de volgende:

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Dit alles heeft weer tot gevolg dat meer mensen daar op onderzoek uit zijn gegaan, waarbij één ufoloog zelfs meent een groot buitenaards of althans vreemd wezen op de berghelling van Mount Adams te hebben ontdekt.

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Hoe het ook zij, het is duidelijk dat er rondom en waarschijnlijk ook binnen in deze inmiddels beroemde Mount Adams, voor ons onbekende objecten rondvliegen.

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Geschreven door peter om 23:03 Stuur door

Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE: UFO COVER UP, HUMAN SPACE FLEET, ALIEN WAR

THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE: UFO COVER UP, HUMAN SPACE FLEET, ALIEN WAR

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We were born, and we live in a world we do not know. We do not know how it works and we live in it every day as we can, each of us. We have not been taught about the world we live in. We have not been taught to understand how it works, how the systems that make up it work.

Ever since ancient times, people have noticed that reality is relative and can change depending on many external factors. Starting from this theory, British philosopher Nick Bostrom developed a Matrix theory or even a digital prison.

An extraterrestrial race, possibly creative, reaching an impressive technological level and wanting to play God. In this way, the Universe was created, which is nothing more than a virtual reality programmed with the help of a supercomputer. This programmed reality develops and exists with the help of principles, which we call physical laws. But like most things, it's just a theory that can not be demonstrated for the moment, what is described as a theory of conspiracy.

THE ALIEN CONSPIRACY

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Those who believe in aliens are wondering if "Anunnaki" are actually "gray aliens"; Otherwise, what would be the difference between these alien races?

Many researchers of UFOs and aliens, seem to agree that the Anunnaki aliens really represent a different race from gray aliens and that in many ways.

Grey aliens are described as an extraterrestrial race as extra-dimensional beings, and some believe that they were present in our solar system only as a result of the fact that Anunnaki were no longer active in this area.

However, several representations of gray extraterrestrials have been found in old cave drawings of various cultures, which could be proof that gray aliens have visited us since ancient times.

STATE-LEVEL TIES, BETWEEN PRESIDENTS AND ALIENS?

The first US president to start this series of contacts was Harry Truman. In 1949, he ordered the army to break down UFOs.

Eisenhower followed the same line. Kill UFOs, he ordered! This order was retired in 1950 when he realized that alien technology was advanced and the US could benefit from it.

Moreover, the US authorities realized that they could not bring down UFOs, given the spectacular tenology they were benefiting.

It is said that in 1950, Eisenhower had his first encounter with aliens, then changed his approach.

Jimmy Carter had promised in the election campaign that he would make light in this case. After becoming president, he was advised not to be involved or make statements, for reasons of security and national panic.

Ronald Reagan, when he was an actor and cast a movie on a hill in Los Angeles, was able to watch a UFO for 45 minutes with the shooting team.

Because of his state of health, memory loss, top secret information was no longer gaining. Decisions were taken on the back of power.

George Bush, formerly the head of the CIA, knew how to avoid this subject with elegance and keep it as secret as possible. Thanks to her friend, Laurence Rockefeller, who was interested in alien phenomena, Clinton has been asked many times about the connection between UFOs and the Air Force.

Diplomat, Clinton made a joke or changed the subject. Hillary asked Rockefeller not to open this topic in the presence of the president because he is a national security one.

Regarding Obama, he has been asked several times about this subject. With an accomplice smile, Obama responded with a joke.

DOES THE VATICAN ALSO BELIEVE IN ALIENS?

"It is possible that life also exists on other planets," said Reverend Jose Gabriel Funes, a 45-year-old Jesuit priest who is at the head of the Vatican's Astronomical Observatory and advises Benedict XVI.

In an interview published in the Vatican newspaper entitled "The alien is my brother," Funes said that the large number of galaxies and planets in the universe entitles people to imagine that life has developed elsewhere: "In such a great universe you can not rule out this hypothesis.

" He pointed out, however, that aliens are not an obstacle to faith in God: "Just as there is a multitude of creatures on Earth, some beings created by God, perhaps even intelligent, could populate other planets.

This does not contradict our faith because we can not limit the creative freedom of God. "

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Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

REAL crystal clear flying saucer caught on camera in shock new GENUINE footage

REAL crystal clear flying saucer caught on camera in shock new GENUINE footage

THIS verified genuine video shows a real flying saucer take off from the ground.

By JON AUSTIN

The startling footage was a former top-secret US military film shot during the Cold War.

The UFO-style craft is seen hovering just above the ground in the remarkable clip.

Yet, alien hunters seeking proof of intelligent life visiting Earth in UFOs will be left disappointed.

The craft was actually built during a top-secret US military project called the Avrocar.

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The Avrocar looked exactly like a typical flying saucer from the 1950s.

Scientists masterminded the craft during the Cold War – believing it would be the next great military flying machine.

The newly released video shows the secret craft being flown at a base during test flights.

Designers had hoped the craft would reach speeds of around 300 mph, with a maximum altitude of 10,000 feet and a range of 995 miles.

It looks exactly like a B-movie flying saucer

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The testing of such experimental craft is believed to be responsible for the huge boom in flying saucer and UFO sightings across the US in the 1940s and 1950s.

The US ploughed £80million developing the Avrocar, but cash for the flying saucer eventually dried up in June 1961, and the doomed project was ditched.

Designs for the Avrocar were shelved after it was found to only be able to hover around one foot off the ground.

When it travelled at high speeds, it became extremely unstable and it was far too loud to be a combat vehicle.

The US were not the first to look at flying disk technology, with the Nazis experimenting with it during WWII.

Conspiracy theories about the Nazis and secret UFO bases in the Antarctic and South America are often linked to the “flying wing” the Horten Ho 229.

One crazy claim is that the Germans even reached the moon before Neil Armstrong.

It comes after footage also emerged which claimed that the Russians also beat the US to a manned moon landing.

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Geschreven door peter om 22:06 Stuur door

Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

What caused the massive explosion on the farside of the sun?

What caused the massive explosion on the farside of the sun?

On Sunday July 23, 2017 a spectacular CME emerged from the farside of the sun. Coronagraphs onboard the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) tracked the fast-moving cloud as it billowed into space.

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NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft, which has a partial view of the sun's farside, identified the source of the blast as active sunspot AR2665.

Sunspot AR2665 will be back on the Earth side of the sun a little more than a week from now. If the sunspot remains active, it could bring a new round of geomagnetic storms and auroras to our planet in early August, reports Spaceweather.

Hypothetical:

The source of the enormous explosion on the farside of the sun is not active sunspot AR2665 but a strange black rectangular anomaly inside the fast-moving cloud.

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Now, if you look at the moment the explosion occurs and you follow the fast-moving cloud as it billowed into space then you see something strange inside the cloud that looks like a rectangular black box connected to a string of light (see image 1) above the anomaly. Next, it seems as the string of light anomaly (see image 2) changes into a solid structure as it emerges from the black anomaly before disappearing into space.

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From 3.30 minutes to 3.40 minutes in the below video you can see the massive explosion and the alleged anomalies.

Without a doubt, the source is sunspot AR2665 and the strange anomalies are not what it seems to be. They are just the effect of the fast-moving cloud. But how is it possible that such a cloud can produce nearly 100% rectangular shapes?

Coincidentally, Sunday’s farside explosion occurred on the 5th anniversary of another significant farside event: The Solar Superstorm of July 23, 2012. That superstorm, which has been compared to the historic Carrington Event of 1859, could have caused widespread power blackouts if it had not missed our planet.

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Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

Return to Twin Peaks: UFOs, Atom Bombs, Owls and Other Weirdness

Return to Twin Peaks: UFOs, Atom Bombs, Owls and Other Weirdness

Micah Hanks

Once our astronomers eventually determine that we aren’t alone in the universe, and we finally get to meet “real” aliens, I wonder if we’ll all sit down and have “The Great Cosmic Powwow” with them; an intergalactic meeting of the minds, of sorts.

Among other things, maybe we’ll finally address the issue of UFOs, and ask our alien neighbors whether the phenomena so many have seen over the years had been them all along.

“No,” I imagine the aliens saying. “That isn’t us, but we have those things (UFOs) too. We were hoping you guys might know what they are.”

Since the end of the Second World War, UFOs have been a cultural staple, both in America, and elsewhere around the world. Many argue that these objects—whatever they are—predate the war, and that for a variety of reasons, they became more apparent to us during the years after the conflict. Reasons for this might include the development of new technologies, such as radar, in addition to advancements in existing areas, like aviation, which could have made an existing phenomenon more apparent to us. Alternatively, it could also be the case that certain technologies harnessed by humans during the war—the atom bomb, for instance—might have garnered the attention of other forms of intelligence, resulting in an increased presence here on Earth in response to a perceived threat… if not to protect us from ourselves.

Whatever the case, humankind harnessing the power of the atom represents a fundamental turning point in the history and development of life on Earth. It’s no wonder then, that it has figured into pop culture as prominently as speculative scenarios pertaining to UFO origins. Perhaps there is no place in recent memory where this was more apparent than in David Lynch and Mark Frost’s seminal television series, Twin Peaks.

With the original 1990s Twin Peaks series, Lynch and Frost managed to work in a number of esoteric or paranormal themes. Project Blue Book, for instance, is introduced via the spiritually-developed character named Major Garland Briggs, as well as references to the SETI program. Toward the end of the original series’ first season, Major Briggs visits the show’s protagonist, Special Agent Dale Cooper, and shows him a message featuring his name, which seemingly came from otherworldly intelligences (while resembling a binary read-out featuring messages from space, it is later determined that this message actually came from a forest near Twin Peaks, in association with entrance points to a pair of otherworldly locations known as the White and Black Lodges). And of course, the symbolism relating to owls (“the owls are not what they seem”) seems ever-present throughout the original Twin Peaks series; this parallels imagery seen in books like Whitley Strieber’s Communion, and more recently author Mike Clelland’s The Messengers.

In the recent Showtime reboot Twin Peaks: The Return, we revisit several of the show’s original characters and themes, although much has changed, particularly in terms of style and atmosphere. A number of reviews have commented about how the new series is decidedly more “Lynch” than its 1990s incarnation, drawing from elements of Lynch’s other work that include Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, and Lost Highway, to name a few.

Kyle MacLachlan portraying Agent Dale B. Cooper

Granted, being “more Lynch” has also made the new series very different from its predecessor, and thus, some have struggled to get into the world of characters like “Dougie Jones” and some of the other new additions; all the while waiting, hoping… praying that some of the old, familiar quirkiness of Special Agent Dale B. Cooper and his cohorts will soon begin to reappear.

A particularly strange addition to the new series is its eighth episode, in which the viewer is taken on a bizarre, black-and-white trip through space, time, and an explosive alternative post-war history of the United States. The origin of “Bob,” the demonic bodiless killer from the original series, is seemingly explained, in that we see his essence born out of the initial tests of a nuclear weapon at White Sands, New Mexico.

Again, the parallel seems to be one which is similar to Ufology, in that with the arrival of humanity on the nuclear playground, strange phenomena also begins to appear on Earth (whether or not such things are overtly apparent at first). In UFO literature, we first called these things flying saucers; but in the realm of Twin Peaks, we have Bob, and seemingly in response, otherworldly characters like “The Giant” and his companion, the “Glamorous Woman” who resides with him in the Black Lodge, which seem to take note of what they see happening on Earth. In response to the explosion at White Sands, this ethereal pair produce and send an orange orb toward Earth which bears the essence of Laura Palmer, the femme tragique and focal point of the Twin Peaks universe; thus Laura Palmer, whose death serves as the focus for the original show’s first season, is shown to represent a kind of balance against Bob, and more broadly, the forces of good and evil held in the balance.

Actress Sheryl Lee, who portrayed Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks.

In the final minutes of the new series’ eighth episode, we are further treated to the appearance of a bizarre “frog-fly”, a mysterious young couple… and perhaps my favorite, a demonic Lumberjack who asks his victims if they’ve “GOTTA LIGHT?” before temporarily taking over a radio station, where he grabs the microphone and lapses into a bizarre poem about water, wells, horses, and utter darkness as he murders the night shift employees by applying crushing force to their craniums.

The entire sequence described above, utterly bizarre though it is, made episode 8 one of my favorites of the new series (oh, and of course, a performance by “The Nine Inch Nails”, as they are called during their introduction. Very cool). And let’s be clear: while we can extrapolate further on the parallels between Twin Peaks, the Atomic Age, and UFOs, I’m not entirely certain that anybody really knows what the “symbolism” Lynch was going for may have been. Hell, maybe Lynch himself doesn’t quite know.

In other words, we can’t be sure that all of the visual elements he incorporated were intentionally symbolic. Sometimes, I think that it’s safe with the arts to try that old method of, “throw it against the wall, and see what sticks.“ But what often results is that people attribute their own meaning to what they see thereafter, which makes it all the more meaningful when they watch it. We assign our own symbolism to the unique palate of weirdness that Lynch and Frost provide. Assigning our own symbolism to what we see makes it deeper, and more personal, as a viewing experience.

While the new series is certainly odd, and has already become renowned (if you want to call it that) for taking its sweet time, If we know Lynch, we know that he is the master of the slow-build. So I’m certain this will all pan out as intended, and fairly soon… hopefully. We still have a lot to enjoy along the way, but in the meantime, it is good to see that the program’s use of history and pop cultural references still keep us thinking about the more subtle instances of weirdness in life.

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Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

Scientist Claims He’s Solved the Bermuda Triangle Mystery

Scientist Claims He’s Solved the Bermuda Triangle Mystery

Paul Seaburn

“It didn’t vanish without a trace.”

Australian scientist and popular TV science commentator Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki had that to say about a famous disappearance in 1945 of a military aircraft over the so-called Bermuda Triangle and would probably say this or something similar about most unexplained vanishings of planes and ships in the triangular area of the Atlantic most often defined as the waters between Miami, Bermuda and San Juan, Puerto Rico. In a recent interview with news.com.au, Dr. Kruszelnicki claimed he had solved the mystery of the triangle.

“According to Lloyds of London and the US coast guard, the number of planes that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle is the same as anywhere in the world on a percentage basis.”

That’s the starting point for his argument that there’s no mystery to the Devil’s Triangle. The area is an extremely busy corridor for both ships and planes between ports in North America, Europe and the Caribbean. However, the people who have to pay when things go wrong – the insurance companies – say the statistics show that it is no more or less dangerous than any other busy transportation passageway.

Based on the numbers, Dr. Kruszelnicki says planes and boats disappear in the Bermuda Triangle area for exactly the same reason as they do everywhere else … weather and operator error. He uses the famous 1945 vanishing of Flight 19 as an example. The training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers disappeared on December 5, 1945, somewhere in the triangle area. Dr Kruszelnicki notes that radio transcripts show that the squadron most likely ran out of fuel due to the inexperience of the junior pilots and navigational and judgmental errors made by Flight 19’s leader, Lieutenant Charles Taylor.

“(Lt. Taylor) arrived with a hangover, flew off without a watch, and had a history of getting lost and ditching his plane twice before.”

The mystery deepened at the time when a PBM Mariner flying boat rescue aircraft with a 13-man crew also disappeared. Dr Kruszelnicki points out that the weather was bad, the waves were high and the Mariner was prone to vapor leaks when fully fueled, which caused the planes to explode. Guess what happened, according to a tanker in the area?

“The plane that went to rescue then went missing was seen to blow up.”

It didn’t vanish without a trace. Dr. Kruszelnicki blames many of the Bermuda Triangle theories on Charles Berlitz, author of the 1974 book The Bermuda Triangle, who said “the people and planes and ships that have reportedly disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle have been victims of some sort of electromagnetic disturbances that cause them to disintegrate and fall into the sea.”

Does the Bermuda Triangle mystery needle point to Kruszelnicki, Berlitz or somewhere in the middle? Many Triangle vanishings like Flight 19 and its rescue plane have been explained by weather or errors. But not all of them. Statistics, trend analyses and extrapolations are excellent tools and reliable enough that Lloyds of London bets vast sums of money on them. But are they foolproof?

Who would you rather have planning your next Atlantic crossing – an actuary or an actual Bermuda Triangle believer?

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Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

CONFORM PROOF OF LIFE ON MARS' - SHOCK CLAIM AFTER 'ALIEN FOUND' IN NASA PICTURE

CONFORM PROOF OF LIFE ON MARS' - SHOCK CLAIM AFTER 'ALIEN FOUND' IN NASA PICTURE

Footage which claims to demonstrate a small alien peeping out from a rock on the scarlet Planet has gone viral online.
The video post on YouTube by Paranormal Crucible is at liberty ‘Tiny Alien Spotted On Mars?’
The channel is said to have dotted the humanoid in images uploaded online by NASA from the Curiosity Rover droid which is scouring the outside for signs of life - but appear to have missed it.

Sign of life? A tiny alien or presently shading on a rock?
A promotional blurb for the video said: "Interesting irregularity found by the rover, which looks like a little Martian.
"I have colo rised the picture and added eyes to the head so its easier to see, but all is there in the original picture, whatever it is it looks humanoid, remind me of the Atacama Alien, about the similar size too, this one is around 6 inches."
It is the newest in a series of alleged tiny aliens found in NASA images of Mars, and a number of alien chasers claim the planet could be occupied by tiny humanoids asa result.
One of the believer is Scott C Waring, of Ufosightingsdaily.com. He blogged in a position entitled ‘6-Inch Alien Seen On Mars In NASA Photo, Absolute Proof Life exist On Mars, June 2016’: "This human-like figure is peering approximately the corner of a rock wall and I can make out its skull, chest, shoulders, arm, leg, knee, and foot from this one close up photo.
"Paranormal Crucible say its about 6 inches...I agree. This is one of the species that once live on Mars and is still living there now, but in inferior numbers. The mysteries of Mars just keep enlightening themselves one by one."

Except Paranormal Crucible has been criticised for its use of digital, editing and treatment of images to make them come into view more like what is life form suggested.
Sceptics argue these finds are presently simple cases of pareidolia where the brain trucks the eye into seeing family shape or matter in patterns or textures.

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Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

Mystery UFO sightings in Cornwall have earthly explanation

A bizarre, swarming UFO "appeared" in multiple places over the English coastal peninsula, but it's not a sign of an impending alien invasion.

BY AMANDA KOOSER

Following UFO sightings across Cornwall this week, we’ve just seen this flying over our Biomes! #ufocornwall pic.twitter.com/VdnqBxMYdQ
— Eden Project (@edenproject) July 21, 2017

If you've been following social media posts from people in Cornwall over the last week, then you may think the alien invasion of Earth has begun in the English peninsula. Multiple seemingly unconnected people posted videos over Twitter and Instagram showing a strange, swarming formation hovering in the sky along with the hashtag #ufocornwall. But it wasn't aliens. It was likely the work of the Eden Project.

The Eden Project is a series of massive greenhouses in Cornwall with connected transparent domes filled with exotic plants. It's a visually stunning place and it's about to launch a new attraction called Journey Into Space, which includes an Astronaut Academy, an astronomy photography exhibit and something called "Alien Encounter."

The swarming UFO videos seem to have been orchestrated by the Eden Project as a publicity stunt tied into the alien-themed part of the experience.

The Eden Project describes the Alien Encounter as "An alien spaceship has crash-landed at Eden, and its inhabitants are stranded here. We're working on a way to communicate with these mysterious life-forms -- can you help us decode their signals and language?" It sounds a bit like the 2016 movie "Arrival."

A tweet on Monday with a short video showing the swarm-UFO beaming down to the Eden Project seems to confirm the origin of the social-media videos. The Eden Project has not yet responded to a request for comment.

The UFO spotted across Cornwall has landed! You'll be granted access to our alien visitor from Thursday https://t.co/DMwcok68tQ #ufocornwall pic.twitter.com/fZVvpu4xUS
— Eden Project (@edenproject) July 24, 2017

As far as marketing stunts go, the UFO sightings is a decent one. The Eden Project had the good sense to create an interesting-looking alien presence that mimics natural phenomena like insect swarms or a starling murmuration. Some people will be disappointed to discover the hoax, but never fear, there will always be more UFO sightings to enjoy.

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Dinsdag 25 juli 2017

10 Creepy Sounds Recorded in Space by NASA

10 Creepy Sounds Recorded in Space by NASA

Spacecraft traveling to the far reaches of the solar system pick up some spooky sounds.

ByEvan Dashevsky

10 Creepy Sounds Recorded in Space by NASA

"In space, no one can hear you scream," reads the tagline for the original Alien movie. And that's true: for the most part, interplanetary space is just a big bag of nothing. But that doesn't mean it's completely silent.

Human ears are specially designed to translate changing pressures traveling through a medium (i.e. sound waves). These sound waves are rendered mute once the medium they are traveling through comes to an end (say, when the atmosphere on Earth gives way to the emptiness of space). However, there are plenty of waves that can move through a vacuum. We can then translate these vacuum-friendly waves into sounds that humans can hear (that's how things like radio transmissions work).

READ: 45 Breathtaking Pics From Cassini's Journey to Saturn

Over the past few decades, we've sent a number of satellites to the far reaches of the solar system (and beyond, as you'll see below). For research and communication reasons, these vessels left with sensors designed to "hear" things like radio and plasma waves that flow freely through interplanetary space. Using a technological intermediary, humans are able to "hear" these space waves as audible sounds.

Turning space waves into sounds has a scientific advantage—evolution has cultivated the human brain to be really good at discerning tiny sonic nuances. This ability helped our ancestors know a growling predator was in the area and was instrumental in developing the complexities of speech. In the days before beefy analytical software, listening to audio interpretations of space waves was one of the best ways to learn what was going on.

However, on a more visceral level, these literally alien noises have a definite effect on the human brain—they're super spooky! These audio files are just about the only ways we can appreciate what it's like to actually be in outer space. Here are 10 creepy sonic experiences captured by NASA over the past few decades.

1. What Jupiter Sounds Like

During its historic 20-year mission to Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft stopped by Jupiter to receive a gravitational boost en route to its final destination). During its fly-by in January 2001, it captured these spooky and quite alien radio signals.

2. What Europa Sounds Like

As the Galileo spacecraft passed by the Jovian moon Europa, it read these plasma fluctuations resulting from the interaction of Europa and Jupiter's magnetospheres.

3. What Ganymede Sounds Like

As Galileo passed by Jupiter's moon Ganymede, it discovered some strange plasma wave observations that confirmed Ganymede has its own magnetosphere. Translating the moon's interactions with Jupiter's more massive magnetosphere resulted in these spooky sounds.

4. Jupiter's 'Bow Shock'

The sun emits a steady stream of charged "solar wind," which can be repelled by a strong magnetic force—say from the magnetic field of a large planet. When the solar wind meets this strong magnetic force surrounding a planet, it is deflected and all its energy of motion is converted to thermal energy. This energized region is known as a "bow shock" (which borrows its name from a similar phenomenon in aerodynamics). The "sound" of passing through this region was recorded by the Voyager spacecraft.

5. What Callisto Sounds Like

The moon Callisto appears to have the weakest interaction with Jupiter's magnetosphere of any of the four largest moons.

6. The Sounds of a Thunderstorm on Saturn

Researchers have noted evidence of lightning deep within Saturn ever since Voyager flew by. These static-y crackles in radio waves were captured by Cassini in 2006 and show the chaotic environment simmering deep below Saturn's cloud top.

7. What Crossing Saturn's Ring Sounds Like

This static was recorded by Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science instrument as it crossed the plane of Saturn's rings in December 2016.

8. Voyager Crossing Into Interstellar Space

This sound isn't a real-time recording, but rather an audio version of a graph of the Voyager's Plasma Wave Science observations of several months spanning 2012-13. These readings mark the period at which scientists believe Voyager exited our solar system's heliopause—the area in which the pressures from outside our solar system force what's left of the sun's solar wind to turn back. In effect, this is the point at which Voyager left the solar system—the first human-made object to do so.

9. Grooving With Jupiter's Ionosphere

This groovy track was collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft in February 2017. It is the sound of plasma waves in Jupiter's ionosphere. For more, check out Amazing Images From Juno's Journey to Jupiter (So Far).

10. Listen to the Earth Whistle

These strange whistles are the result of plasma waves interacting with the Earth's magnetic fields as recorded by NASA's Van Allen probes.

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

Five Facts That Prove Alien Life Exist

Five Facts That Prove Alien Life Exist

Many scientists say that, life can be possible on other planet. Even a formula have been developed called "Drake Equation" which shows the possibility of finding life form on other planet. Here are 5 facts which shows that we have already encountered aliens.

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1. The Skylab III Mission

Skylab III was the second manned mission to the first American space station. The mission began on July 28, 1973 and lasted 60 days. The crew was testing scientific experiments in space.

The astronauts saw a UFO that paced them for a while. The three observed the bright-red flashing object for 10 minutes, taking 4 coloured photographs.

While communicating with NASA the astronauts referred to what they were seeing with cryptic messages to avoid spreading unwanted attention.

In the brief time they were observing the object, now of the crew members decided to estimate its size and distance.

By measuring the delay between when Skylab III went in to the Earth's shadow, and when the UFO went in to the Earth's shadow. He was able to obtain a distance measurement, which showed the object to be 40-45 Km away and 243 metres in diameter.

At that time, in 1973, the Skylab was the largest object ever put in orbit, and it measured 43 meters in diameter.

2. Collisions of Planes and UFOs

Ever since man acquired the ability to fly, there have been more and more stories about encountering "delta-shaped" objects in mid flight.

With the increasing use of commercial airlines, the sightings have escalated tremendously, with many of the reporting being recorded.

Here's some of them:

ATC: Hey Cactus 564, say again...
564: I said there's Nothing on their radar on the other centres at all on that particular area, that object that's up in the air?
ATC: It's up in the air?
564: Affirmative

ATC: What's the altitude about?
564: I don't know, probably right around 30,000 or so, there's Strobe, it starts from going counterclockwise and the Length is Unbelievable

ATC: Swiss Air 127, go ahead.
127: Yes Sir, I don;t know what it was but it just Overflew like a couple of hundred feet above us. I don't know if it was a rocket or whatever but incredibly fast, opposite direction. It was too fast to be an airplane.

3. The "Wow" signal

For over 50 years scientists have been listening to the skies in hopes of receiving messages from other life forms. Until August 15, 1977, there has been zero messages received.

The wow! signal is a 72 second transmission picked up by the Big Ear radio observatory at Ohio State University, coming from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.

It's name comes from what Jerry R. Ehman, the man who recorded it, wrote down when he printed a copy of the signal.

The signal in words was "6EQUJ5".

There have been many theories as of what the signal meant, but none of them are conclusive.

4. The Apollo 11 Mission

Similar to the Skylab III case, during their journey to the moon, the Apollo 11 crew faced and observed a Ufo throughout the third day of their mission.

To avoid compromising the mission, the astronauts decided to use cryptic messages when the communication back to Huston.

"Huston, how far away is the S-IVB?" was what their cystic message said.

Nice the S-IVB, the detaching part of the spacecraft, was the only other object that they could have been observing, their cryptic message was saying " Huston, is what we are seeing what we think it is, or could it just be our detached S-IVB?"

The reply, stating that the S-IVB was 6,000 nautical miles away from them, confirmed what he crew was thinking....

After that they never talked about it for fear of ridicule... not even NASA knew this at the time.

5. Aliens DNA Samples

On the morning of July 23, 1992 at 7:30 am, while Peter Khoury was in bed, two beings in the forms of tall, beautiful Nordic women, with exceptionally long face features, visited the man in this room.

One appeared to have Asian Characteristics, with dark hair, big eyes, a long nose and slightly dark skin, while the other one was white as milk and had typical Nordic hair. The two beings were communicating telepathically with Peter Khoury who, once awaken by them, was shocked to find the two in front of him. Before he could do anything, one of the women grabbed him by the head and pushed him towards her breasts. The man, still in shock, reacted violently by biting the woman's nipple.

He chocked a little with the nipple in his throat, but managed to swallow it, noticing no blood whatsoever. The reaction of the woman was null. she communicated telepathically to the other one saying that had made a mistake. The man was able to hear their conversation, at the end of which they disappeared. Immediately after that he went to the bathroom because he was feeling pain on his penis. When he checked what was causing that feeling, he was shocked to find some of the blond woman's hair attached around that area.

He removed the hair with a lot of pain and effort and secured it so that he could send it for examination. After that he had six hour erection. At first it appeared to have come from a light skinned caucasian like looking woman. The thin blond hair was examined and was concluded that it could not have come from a normal human of that racial type.

Not only did Peter Khoury's story have physical proof, but it was also backed up by the lie detector, which concluded that he was stating the truth about an event that had really happened.

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

The First X-Files: How Britain Investigated UFOs During World War I

The First X-Files: How Britain Investigated UFOs During World War I

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Did the Red Baron really shoot down a flying saucer over the battlefields of World War I – and did an ‘Angel’ really save the lives of British troops?

Bizarrely, a team of British intelligence officers were assigned to investigate weird sightings in the skies in World War I – becoming the precursor of UFO investigators both real and fictional.

Most of us think of UFOs and mysterious sightings in the sky as a modern phenomenon – but ‘phantom airships’ became a huge panic in the early years of the Twentieth century, and regularly featured in newspapers.

By the time of World War I, a more scientific approach was needed.

A predecessor to MI5 – Military Observation Department Five (MO5), under the control of Lieutenant Colonel Kell – was assigned the task of classifying sightings in the air.

Amid panic about enemy airships, it was a military necessity to weed out ‘phantom airships’ from real aircraft sightings.

Nigel Watson, author of UFOs of the First World War says, ‘It can be regarded as the first ever official guide to studying UFO reports long before the CIA or any other organisation got with the subject when ‘flying saucer’ sightings were all the rage after WWII.

‘During WW! there were numerous reports of mysterious lights and objects moving about in the skies. These were studied by the Assistant Director of Military Aeronautics, a post held by Lieutenant Colonel W.S. Brancker; the department of Military Training; and by the Brancker and Kell can be regarded as the first Mulder and Scully who studied the flow of UFO-type reports that flowed into their offices.’

Lights in the sky

The reports sent to Brancker and Kell sound eerily like today’s UFO sightings – and came amid widespread panic not only about enemy airships but also more mysterious sightings.

A 1914 telegram from the Chief Constable of Lancashire said, ‘Large red light seen at 8.45pm today passing over Runcorn Bridge Arches. Immediately afterwards, an explosion was heard in Widnes and Runcorn.

The guidelines set out by the war office helped officers of MO5 categorise sightings as of natural origin – or as something more mysterious.

Flying saucers

Various legends about extraterrestrials have circulated about World War I – of which the most astonishing (and implausible) is that German fighter ace the Red Baron shot down a UFO.

Fellow pilots claimed, after the war, that Baron Manfred von Richtofen shot down a flying saucer type craft – from which two inhabitants fled.

Fellow German pilot Peter Waitzrick said that the fighters saw an aircraft like an upside down saucer, ‘We were terrified because we’d never seen anything like it before. The Baron immediately opened fire and the thing went down like a rock, shearing off tree limbs as it crashed into the woods.

‘There’s no doubt in my mind that the Baron shot down some kind of spacecraft from another planet and those little guys who ran off into the woods were space aliens of some kind.

The story is highly dubious, however – given that Waitzrick didn’t share his story until 80 years after the event, and chose to do so in the U.S. tabloid Weekly World News.

The disappearing soldiers

UFO fans claim that aliens may have ‘abducted’ people from the battlefields of World War I – with a claim of hundreds of men ‘vanishing’ into a cloud during the Gallipoli campaign.

Witnesses claimed to have seen British soldiers marching towards Hill 60 at Sulva Bay in Turkey on August 21, 1915 – before being snatched up by a ‘solid-looking’ cloud.

A statement from a supposed eye-witness published in 1965, said, ‘When they arrived at this cloud they marched straight into it with no hesitation, but no one ever came out to fight. About an hour later this cloud very unobtrusively lifted off the ground until it joined other similar clouds, then they all moved away northwards.’

But it seems likely that this is a hoax. Documents released after the Armistice suggest that 180 bodies found behind enemy lines are those of the ‘missing soldiers’ – and the story of the cloud is a myth.

The ‘Angel’ of Mons

An ‘Angel’ which many British soldiers credited with saving their lives in one of the first, brutal battles of World War I has been seized on by UFO fans as evidence of extraterrestrials…

Many soldiers credited the strange apparitions with saving their lives – and the story became a staple of parish magazines.

The battle had been one of the first in which the British faced the Germans – and despite retreating, only 1,600 lives were lost.

Decades later, debate rages still – some attributing the ‘Angel’ to a short story from the Evening Standard, others to British intelligence.

The popular author, Arthur Machen claimed that this legend was created by his fictional ‘The Bowmen’ story published in The Evening News, 29 September 1914.

In it, British soldiers call on St George for aid, and are helped by ghostly bowmen from the Battle of Agincourt. One fact that lends weight to this theory is that few reports of the incident exist before Machen’s story.

Nigel Watson, author of UFOs of World War 1 says, ‘Even today the legend is swathed in controversy. Theories about it range from it being a myth based on Machen’s story, the product of hallucinations due to stress and exhaustion, real angelic visitations, ghosts, swamp gas, airships or alien UFOs projecting or shaping themselves to the expectations of the witnesses.’

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

NASA OPENLY ADMITS ALIEN LIFE EXISTS: GET READY FOR DISCLOSURE

NASA OPENLY ADMITS ALIEN LIFE EXISTS: GET READY FOR DISCLOSURE

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Most people ‘in the know’ realize that NASA is just part of the military industrial complex, but a recent open admission on mainstream news that “there are indications of alien life” is likely the beginning of a bid to get your undivided attention before full-forced disclosure ensues.

Most people already believe what NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan states:

“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.”

It isn’t going to take that long if we open our eyes.

Stofan goes on to say:

“We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”

What we’re going to understand is that our ‘secret’ government has been hiding this fact for ages. In an effort to transition the US and other countries through its reach to a cabal-run oligarchy, our shadow government has been lying about off-planet corporate slavery rings, alien abductions, benevolent beings who can only do so much until our collective consciousness elevates, and much, much more.

William Cooper, among others, tried to disclose the true purpose of NASA, but he was exterminated. His death, among thousands of others, will not be in vain.

We will learn that aside from extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet and many different ET races tinkering with our DNA over millenia, there are ancient humanoid races that are more than 10 million years.

Most people already believe what NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan states:

“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.”

It isn’t going to take that long if we open our eyes.

Stofan goes on to say:

William Cooper, among others, tried to disclose the true purpose of NASA, but he was exterminated. His death, among thousands of others, will not be in vain.

We will learn that a recent computer hacking retrieved millions of government and corporate personnel records, some say as part of documentation for Nuremburg-like trials, will begin soon against those who have mind-controlled, enslaved and tortured us. Undeniable photos of UFOs were also unearthed.

We will also learn that chemtrails and GMOs were the LEAST of plans made for us ‘sheeple’ and ‘useless eaters’ by a Luciferian cabal, and that President Harry Truman signed a document with certain ETs that allowed the ‘elite’ to conduct highly technological experiments with intelligence gained from these ETs in exchange for looking the other way when certain humans were abducted for ET experiments.

We will learn that we are not helpless, as we have been programmed to believe. We are, in fact, a rare humanoid race that has an incredible range of emotion and creative power. We will learn that our minds and emotions can either fuel chaos on this planet, or restore it to its rightful place of peace and cooperation, of care for others at least as much as ourselves.

We will learn that our ascension into infinitely peaceful beings is indeed possible, and it has been described in countless books, many of which have been suppressed along with UFO information.

NASA is telling us now that the likelihood of alien life is a ruse. Be sure to remember those who have been executed to try to prove this information to us decades ago, and to use discernment when the truth is finally revealed.

Here’s the full disclosure by William Cooper:

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

NASA ADMITS: SOMEONE TOOK CONTROL OVER SPACE PROBE VOYAGER 2 AND SENT DATA IN AN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE

NASA ADMITS: SOMEONE TOOK CONTROL OVER SPACE PROBE VOYAGER 2 AND SENT DATA IN AN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE

NASA have revealed that a curious incident in 2010 might be firm evidence that an alien species is attempting to create communication links with humanity. In 2010, Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft powered by human beings to leave the known solar system. According to NASA expert Kevin Baines, at the time that the craft entered interstellar space, it became to send communications to the base on Earth in a language that was totally incomprehensible to the scientists who received it.

NASA SPACECRAFT HIJACKED BY ALIENS?

Baines said that the team immediately assumed that the spacecraft was malfunctioning in some way and proceeded to run a full assessment of its systems. However, they could find nothing wrong with it except that one component in the binary code system had been changed from 0 to 1. After running further investigations, they were left with no alternate explanation except that someone or something had taken temporary control of the spacecraft. The minute change in the binary code suggested that someone or something deliberately tried to alter aspects of Voyager 2’s computer system. This suggested to the team on the ground that the spacecraft had been temporarily taken over by computer hackers. However, they didn’t think it was likely that the hackers were of terrestrial origin as they would not have been able to make contact with the spacecraft at such an enormous distance. It took the experts at NASA three weeks to be able to reassert control over the spacecraft’s computer system and correct the era. Officially, NASA has conceded that they have absolutely no idea about who or what could have taken temporary control over Voyager 2 and sent the incomprehensible message to their team on the ground. However, German scientist Hartwig Hausdorff has not been so coy in revealing what he thinks was behind the incident – he is confident that the message was sent by an alien species.

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

Pictured: The mysterious passenger jets that fly from Las Vegas to America's most secret military base... Area 51

Pictured: The mysterious passenger jets that fly from Las Vegas to America's most secret military base... Area 51

The fleet, nicknamed Janet Airlines, operates from McCarran Airport
None of the planes carry logos and you can't buy a ticket for their service
Conspiracy theorists claim Area 51 in Nevada houses UFO technology

By Ted Thornhill for MailOnline

A fleet of passenger aircraft is stabled at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport that it's impossible to buy tickets for.

They don't carry any company logos – they're plain white with a red band down the side - and anyone who boards one is sworn to secrecy about where they're going and what they do for a living.

The reason that the aircraft, mostly Boeing 737s, are so shadowy in nature, is because they serve America's most secret military base, Area 51 in Nevada, which conspiracy theorists claim houses UFO technology.

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At Las Vegas McCarran International Airport is a fleet of passenger aircraft (pictured) it's impossible to buy tickets for - because they fly to the US's secret Area 51 military base

They are run by the United States Air Force and operate from a private terminal at McCarran nicknamed Gold Coast, according to Flight Club.

The fleet does have a name of sorts – Janet Airlines, because that's the call sign the planes in it use while in civilian airspace.

From Las Vegas they fly north-west to a place that has what's widely regarded as the most restricted airspace in the world, the Area 51 base in the Nevada Test and Training Range.

In fact, Flight Club calls it 'restricted airspace inside restricted airspace'.

It claims that once the Janet aircraft approach this secretive area their call signs change from the likes of 'Janet 210' to 'bones 58'.

Once they touch down, the passengers disembark into a facility that's inspired countless books, TV shows and movies, but about which very little is known.

The Area 51-bound planes are run by the United States Air Force and operate from a private terminal at McCarran nicknamed Gold Coast (pictured)

UFO expert Nick Pope said: 'Area 51 [pictured] exists - it's part of a military testing range in Nevada - and because of the remote and sparsely-populated location, it's where various secret prototype aircraft and drones are developed and test flown'

Nick Pope, author of Encounter in Rendlesham Forest and the man who used to investigate UFOs for the British Ministry of Defence, explained to MailOnline Travel that Area 51 is the place where some of America's most hi-tech military hardware is built and tested – but he doubts any of it is extra-terrestrial in origin.

He said: 'Area 51 exists - it's part of a military testing range in Nevada - and because of the remote and sparsely-populated location, it's where various secret prototype aircraft and drones are developed and test flown.

'The UFO and conspiracy theory community think it's the place where crashed UFOs are kept and where the US military are trying to back-engineer this alien technology, and even Hillary Clinton has said that if she's elected President she'll look into the claims.

'Sadly, despite the rumours, I've seen no evidence that we've recovered any extraterrestrial technology.

'Having been namechecked in movies like Independence Day, Area 51 has become part of pop culture and the secret is out, so if there ever was alien technology at Area 51, I suspect it's been moved to a location we've never heard of.'

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

Roswell’s Unanswered UFO Questions

Roswell’s Unanswered UFO Questions

Roswell's Unanswered UFO Questions 1

Something crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, 68 years ago. The first military authorized press release stated, “RAAF (Roswell Army Air Field) Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch In Roswell Region.” That’s right, the military was the first to indicate it was a flying saucer.

Then, they quickly said that was a mistake. It was just a weather balloon. But UFO researchers were never satisfied with that answer, even decades later, and the controversy only grew.

The military later revealed that this wasn’t a simple weather balloon, but an aircraft used for clandestine purposes — part of the Army’s top secret “Project Mogul”— to monitor atomic weapon testing in the old Soviet Union. The military also claimed that crash test dummies may have been mistaken for ETs. But that explanation only stirred the controversy.

The central figure surrounding the events of the 1947 Roswell UFO issue was Maj. Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer for the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field. He was assigned the initial task of going out to the debris field to collect some of the material, described as shiny wreckage, including pieces of rubber, super-resistant tinfoil, wooden sticks and metallic-looking I-beams.

Here’s an excerpt from a 35-year-old interview conducted by this writer with Marcel, when he finally felt comfortable talking about the Roswell case more than 30 years after it happened:

We went out to the scene of where the crash was and started picking up the debris. It’s almost indescribable. It’s not the kind of material I’d ever seen in my life, nor have I seen it since. There were various types of materials which I couldn’t identify. There were little members that looked like they were made of wood, but it wasn’t wood and it had some kind of writing or hieroglyphics that I couldn’t decipher and nobody else could. It was flexible, but you couldn’t break it and you couldn’t burn it.

Also, I found a piece of metal which was about the thickness of the foil in a pack of cigarettes. But the amazing part about it was you could put it on the ground, hit it with a sledge hammer and you couldn’t even put a dent in it. That astounded me and I knew it was nothing from here. I was convinced it was not from anywhere on Earth and I’m still convinced of that.

I had brought a counterintelligence man with me in a staff car plus a pickup truck. We got everything we could into that and I sent the agent back to the base. Then I filled up my car with stuff. By the time I got back home, my wife said, ‘What happened to you? There’s been a bunch of news reporters out here, wanting a picture of you.’ And I said, ‘For what?’ And there had been a public relations officer with them. He said, ‘From what happened, your husband will be very popular by tomorrow morning.’ So that’s how it all started.

What amazed me most of all was the weightlessness of all this material — it weighed nothing. I found one piece of metal — supposedly metal — which was about a foot wide and about two-and-a-half feet long. When I got back to the base, we [Marcel and several enlisted men] brought it all into a briefing room and set up a whole lot of tables there. One of the men said, ‘Let me see if I can put some of those parts together, to see what the thing might have looked like.’ He came back later and said [he tried but couldn’t do it].

I consulted my CO [commanding officer], who said, ‘You better fly the thing to Wright-Patterson Air Field [Ohio]. So, we loaded up the whole thing — which was not a whole lot of material — onto a B-29. We had only picked up one small fraction of what was out there. It was scattered over such an area about three-quarters of a mile long and several hundred feet wide. We’d been there all day, picking up the fragments.

I asked my CO if it was a better idea to stop at Carswell [Air Force Base] at Fort Worth and consult General Ramey and he said, ‘Yes, you better do that.’ When I got to Fort Worth, I talked it over with the general, and he told me, ‘Don’t open your mouth to the press. Put some stuff on the floor and let them take a picture of it.’ But I was careful not to put out anything with detail on it. So they took pictures, and one picture appeared in the papers. (See image below)

Gen. Ramey told news reporters this was nothing but a crashed weather balloon, but I do know this: later on, Ramey wanted to cover his statement up, because he didn’t know, himself, what it was. I went back to Roswell to resume my duties, but what they did at Carswell was to make a mock display with a battered weather balloon and they let the press take pictures of that. The whole thing was a cover-up to begin with and that was the last I heard of it.

I know it was not a weather balloon and I’d swear it on the biggest bible. It wasn’t a missile or any part of an aircraft that we know of.

To mark the crash anniversary, Michael Donovan of OuterPlaces.com joined us on the HuffPost Weird News Podcast to discuss Roswell’s unanswered questions.

Two years ago, Donovan was standing in the Roswell crash debris field along with Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., a highly decorated military flight surgeon.

“It was a moving experience because we’re out on the site and this large thunderstorm was moving toward us — you could see lightning flashing — and he’s standing there with his Iraq war veteran hat on and said, ‘This is amazing. Sixty-six years ago, my father was standing on this very site,'” said Donovan.

“His father had loaded debris into his car, drove back to Roswell, stopping at his house, and showed his wife and son, Jesse Jr., the material after spreading it out on the kitchen floor,” said Donovan. “Here’s a guy — a doctor, a flight surgeon — why would he make up an experience he had in the middle of the night when he was 11 years old? So, when we were standing there at the crash site, I asked him, ‘When they loaded that plane up and flew it to Fort Worth, what happened to it?’ And he said, ‘You know what? I don’t know.’ But he said the base commander’s secretary, a few years ago before she retired, showed somebody a box of stretchy stuff that, if you crushed it, it would pop open. Jesse Jr. said to me, ‘I think that stuff must still be somewhere around, in the military’s possession.'”

Donovan says his belief in UFOs and a possible cover-up surrounding the Roswell UFO incident never gets in the way of his work — which includes co-designing the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

“No, not at all. It goes back to the idea of being on a quest, being a problem-solver, and that’s what designers do. We solve problems. In the reading of science fiction, you begin on a path to discovery. That’s what we do every day and it’s really that kind of interest — learning new things — that put me on the path that I’m now on, relative to OuterPlaces.com.

“In my own mind, I keep trying to create some kind of balance between what I think is a certain appropriate level of secrecy. We’re adults in this country, by and large, and I think the government owes us as much information and let us make up our own minds.”

Here are some unanswered questions that continue to surround the 1947 Roswell UFO crash incident:

1) What exactly crashed there in 1947? Was it a weather balloon, high altitude spy device, extraterrestrial craft?

2) Did the military switch materials that Maj. Marcel brought back from the debris field and, instead, allow the press to take pictures of an actual battered weather balloon?

3) If the crash site debris wasn’t really a weather balloon, where did the real stuff end up?

4) Why would the military decide to even issue a press release about a captured flying saucer?

5) Related to the above question, why would the military suddenly change the story from flying saucer to weather balloon?

6) Why did the military hire a local Roswell mortician to make child-sized caskets following the UFO debris retrieval?

7) Why did Jesse Marcel Sr. wait more than 30 years before finally revealing his part in the Roswell UFO events?

8) If true, why would the U.S. government want to cover up such a monumental event as the crash of an alien ship?

This weekend’s 20th Roswell UFO festival takes off full blast today with speakers giving their presentations at different locations simultaneously. If lectures don’t fit your fancy, there’s always the alien pet and alien costume contests and a UFO festival light parade to check out.

It’s fair to say that something happened outside Roswell in 1947 that literally put the town on the map. The debris is long gone, but the reverberations have never stopped.

Whatever it was, after almost 70 years, it still depends on whom you ask or what you read, and whether you believe them.

A 1997 CNN-Time poll showed that 80 percent of Americans think the government is hiding information about the existence of alien life forms, and nearly two-thirds of the poll respondents believed that a UFO crashed outside Roswell in 1947.

Podcasters, L to R, Michael Donovan, Lee Speigel, Buck Wolf

Listen to our embedded podcast, and head over to iTunes to rate, review, and subscribe to the show. Your continued support allows us to keep cursing at work. And check out other HuffPost Podcasts.

We might not be able to prove the existence of alien life, but our producer Katelyn Bogucki is out of this world and so is our editor Jorge Corona.

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

HUMANS WORKING ALONG SIDE ALIENS IN AREA 51, CHILLING STORIES AND STOLEN FOOTAGE!

HUMANS WORKING ALONG SIDE ALIENS IN AREA 51, CHILLING STORIES AND STOLEN FOOTAGE!

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Bill Uhouse, then a 71 year old man, claimed to have been a Area 51 engineer and revealed that he use to work in collaboration with a Grey Alien at the Area 51 site. Bill Uhouse claimed to have worked with an alien he dubbed “J-Rod” who helped him in understanding how to control the alien vehicle. Bill Uhouse passed away in 2009.

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Many people in the past have come forward with information and many have a lot of things in common. Here are some of them…

1. There is a massive underground system composed of bases and compounds. These facilities contain labs, workshops for reverse engineering and secure “rooms” for the “Extraterrestrial Biological Entities” or EBEs for short.

2. In relation to number one, these bases were constructed toward the end of the Truman Administration.

3. Multiple humanoid races exist.

4. A race of “Greys”. Three types: Tall or “Large” Greys. Short Greys and Greys the average human height as well.

5. A race of tall “Nordic” Human Extraterrestrials with large eyes.

6. There is even mention of a “Reptilian” race by many as well.

7. Each race is thousands of years more advanced than us. We are basically newborns in the galactic community of intelligence.

8. A treaty was signed between the U.S. and the Greys during the Eisenhower administration and a trade began. We would receive alien technology in exchange for a certain number of humans. The Greys use humans for biological research and possibly attempting to create hybrids to save their dying race

You’ll get chills down your spine once he begins to describe the extraterrestrials:

Source www.disclose.tv

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

Caltech scientists working on new microscope in search for alien life

Caltech scientists working on new microscope in search for alien life

Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, is one of the places scientists are looking for microscopic life.

By Immanuel Jotham

Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, is one of the places scientists are looking for microscopic life NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute via Getty Images

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are working on a new microscope technology in the search for alien life. Called digital holographic microscopy (DHM), it is, according to their publication, a technique that has a much better output when compared to traditional microscopes. The device, currently in development, has no moving parts, so it can be put to use in detecting life as long a large enough sample is collected.

The researchers have pointed out that the moons of Jupiter and Saturn are the most likely locationswhere life is possible on the outer planets. In their report, they pointed out that Nasa now has as an "explicit goal the search for signs of life".

Considering the distance that needs to be travelled and the restrictions that a spacecraft would face in outer space, especially the outer planets, sample collection cannot be done in high volume or quantity.

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Life, if it exists on the outer planets, cannot be expected to be thriving. In fact, the researchers say that life will most likely be prokaryotic (a unicellular organism that lacks a membrane-bound nucleus), anaerobic (organism that does not require oxygen for growth), and present at potentially very low densities, presenting further difficulties in sample collection and detection.

According to the scientists, the new technology improves on the existing electron microscopy methods. They claim that it is an "approximately 100-fold improvement". The new technique also has the ability to capture two important facets of microorganisms- their 'intensity and phase'. This leads to clear images even when they are focusing on organisms that are nearly transparent.

In outer space, organic life cannot be expected to be similar to, or even resemble what is here on earth, so looking at single celled life and telling the difference between a mineral or a salt and a living cell is a challenge.

The scientists therefore need to detect "multiple identically shaped and sized, highly regular features that may suggest life". So that is what this new microscope will be looking for on alien surfaces.

Field testing of the technique was carried out in the Canadian High Arctic. The harsh cold terrain there could be compared to environments in outer space. Two samples were tested with different bacterial populations, concentrations, and levels of activity.

In the tests the team was able identify life clearly in of the samples using this new method without any "preconcentration or any other steps".

The target is Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. The Enceladus plume as it is known is a vapour spout that spews water into outer space. The idea of the DHM project is to collect samples there. A flyby through the heart of the Enceladus plume at an altitude of 50 km could give them enough samples to study and look for life forms.

As the DHM has no moving parts, it is unlikely to be affected by the long travel or harsh conditions present in outer space.

Related topics : NASA

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts

The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts

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Sumer, or the ‘land of civilized kings’, flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. Sumerians created an advanced civilization with its own system of elaborate language and writing, architecture and arts, astronomy and mathematics. Their religious system was a complex one comprised of hundreds of gods. According to the ancient texts, each Sumerian city was guarded by its own god; and while humans and gods used to live together, the humans were servants to the gods.

The Sumerian creation myth can be found on a tablet in Nippur, an ancient Mesopotamian city founded in approximately 5000 BC.

The creation of Earth (Enuma Elish) according to the Sumerian tablets begins like this:

When in the height heaven was not named,
And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name,
And the primeval Apsu, who begat them,
And chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them both
Their waters were mingled together,
And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen;
When of the gods none had been called into being,
And none bore a name, and no destinies were ordained;
Then were created the gods in the midst of heaven,
Lahmu and Lahamu were called into being…

Sumerian mythology claims that, in the beginning, human-like gods ruled over Earth. When they came to the Earth, there was much work to be done and these gods toiled the soil, digging to make it habitable and mining its minerals.

The texts mention that at some point the gods mutinied against their labour.

When the gods like men
Bore the work and suffered the toll
The toil of the gods was great,
The work was heavy, the distress was much.

Anu, the god of gods, agreed that their labour was too great. His son Enki, or Ea, proposed to create man to bear the labour, and so, with the help of his half-sister Ninki, he did. A god was put to death, and his body and blood was mixed with clay. From that material the first human being was created, in likeness to the gods.

You have slaughtered a god together
With his personality
I have removed your heavy work
I have imposed your toil on man.
…
In the clay, god and man
Shall be bound,
To a unity brought together;
So that to the end of days
The Flesh and the Soul
Which in a god have ripened –
That soul in a blood-kinship be bound.

This first man was created in Eden, a Sumerian word which means ‘flat terrain’. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Eden is mentioned as the garden of the gods and is located somewhere in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Sumerian tablet depicting Enki in the creation myth. (world-myth.com)

Initially human beings were unable to reproduce on their own, but were later modified with the help of Enki and Ninki. Thus, Adapa was created as a fully functional and independent human being. This ‘modification’ was done without the approval of Enki’s brother, Enlil, and a conflict between the gods began. Enlil became the adversary of man, and the Sumerian tablet mentions that men served gods and went through much hardship and suffering.

Adapa, with the help of Enki, ascended to Anu where he failed to answer a question about ‘the bread and water of life’. Opinions vary on the similarities between this creation story and the biblical story of Adam and Eve in Eden.

Featured image: Sumerian chaos monster and sun god. (Wikipedia)

Note: Ancient Sumerian translations were taken from William Bramley’s book, The Gods of Eden.

Source www.ancient-origins.net

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

NASA DISCOVERS HIDDEN PORTALS IN EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD

NASA DISCOVERS HIDDEN PORTALS IN EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD

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Our planet has come a long way in scientific breakthroughs and discoveries. Mainstream science is beginning to discover new concepts of reality that have the potential to change our perception about our planet and the extraterrestrial environment that surrounds it forever. Star gates, wormholes, and portals have been the subject of conspiracy theories and theoretical physics for decades, but that is all coming to an end as we continue to grow in our understanding about the true nature of our reality.

In physics, a wormhole was a hypothetical feature of space time that would be a shortcut through space-time. We often wonder how extraterrestrials could travel so far and this could be one of many explanations. Although scientists still don’t really understand what they have found, it does open the mind to many possibilities.

Turning science fiction into science fact seems to happen quite often these days and NASA did it by announcing the discovery of hidden portals in Earth’s magnetic field. NASA calls them X-points or electron diffusion regions. They are places where the magnetic field of Earth connects to the magnetic field of the Sun, which in turn creates an uninterrupted path leading from our own planet to the sun’s atmosphere which is 93 million miles away.

NASA used its THEMIS spacecraft, as well as a European Cluster probe, to examine this phenomenon. They found that these portals open and close dozens of times each day. It’s funny, because there is a lot of evidence that points toward the sun being a giant star gate for the ‘gods’ to pass back and forth from other dimensions and universes. The portals that NASA has discovered are usually located tens of thousands of kilometres from Earth and most of them are short-lived; others are giant, vast and sustained.

As far as scientists can determine, these portals aid in the transfer of tons of magnetically charged particles that flow from the Sun causing the northern and southerns lights and geomagnetic storms. They aid in the transfer of the magnetic field from the Sun to the Earth. In 2014, the U.S. space agency will launch a new mission called Magnetospheric Multi scale Mission (MMS) which will include four spacecraft that will circle the Earth to locate and then study these portals. They are located where the Earth and the Sun’s magnetic fields connect and where the unexplained portals are formed.

NASA funded the University of Iowa for this study, and they are still unclear as to what these portals are. All they have done is observed charged particles flowing through them that cause electromagnetic phenomenon in Earth’s atmosphere.

Magnetic portals are invisible, unstable and elusive. they open and close without warming and there are no signposts to guide is in – Dr Scudder, University of Iowa

Mainstream science continues to grow further, but I often get confused between mainstream science, and science that is formed in the black budget world. It seems that information and discovery isn’t information and discovery without the type of ‘proof’ that the human race requires. Given that the human race requires, and has a certain criteria for ‘proof’, which has been taught to us by the academic world, information can easily be suppressed by concealing that ‘proof’. It’s no secret that the department of defence receives trillions of dollars that go unaccounted for and everything developed within the United States Air Force Space Agency remains classified. They are able to classify information for the sake of ‘national security’. Within the past few years, proof has been emerging for a number of phenomenon that would suggest a whole other scientific world that operates separately from mainstream science.

We have the technology to take ET home, anything you can imagine we already have the technology to do, but these technologies are locked up in black budget projects. It would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity

– Ben Rich, Fmr CEO of LockHeed Skunk Works

I use this video a lot in many of my posts, but it is just a profound statement, I love to use it over and over. He is x NASA personnel so it kind of fits in with the article.

Reference:

http://science.nasa.gov

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

ET not responsible for mystery stellar radio signals after all

ET not responsible for mystery stellar radio signals after all

Michael Irving

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which recently picked up strange signals seemingly originating with the red dwarf star, Ross 128

(Credit: Courtesy of the NAIC- Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF)

Back in May, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico detected strange radio signals coming from Ross 128, a red dwarf star 11 light-years away. After closely analyzing the data with the help of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, the team has now revealed what they believe to be the source of the signals – and it's bad news for little green men hunters

According to the Arecibo astronomers, "the signals consisted of broadband quasi-periodic non-polarized pulses with very strong dispersion-like features," and they're unusual enough that the team has since dubbed the observation "The Weird! Signal," in an apparent reference to the 1977 Wow! Signal.

The astronomers put forward the three most likely explanations for the transmission: unusual stellar activity from the red dwarf, emissions from other background objects, or interference from satellite communications orbiting Earth.

Unfortunately, the most mundane of those turned out to be the culprit. The Arecibo team analyzed the data, backed up by observations from SETI using the Green Bank Telescope and the Allen Telescope Array, and has concluded that the Weird! Signal is most likely interference from geostationary satellites. Ross 128 is close to the celestial equator, which happens to be a busy patch of sky locally, and the signals are also within the range of frequencies that these satellites use to communicate.

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Astronomers mark the Weird radio signal in the data

(Credit: PHL at UPR Arecibo)

That said, the team admits that the satellite solution leaves a few questions unanswered. Earthly origins don't quite account for the signals' "strong dispersion-like features," although this could be caused by multiple reflections. The researchers plan to continue looking into this scenario, as well as any others that might be a better fit.

Extraterrestrial intelligence was, of course, right at the bottom of the list of likely explanations. Intelligent life may ultimately have been responsible for these weird signals, but once again, it appears the call was coming from inside the house.

Source: Planetary Habitability Laboratory

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

America spent millions of dollars creating a UFO-style alternative to helicopter

America spent millions of dollars creating a UFO-style alternative to helicopter

WATCH the once top-secret efforts by the American military to create a UFO-style alternative to the helicopter as revealed in this eye-opening series of images and video.

The video shows the classified Cold War project, which many in the US armed forces thought would be the next big thing in military innovation, going through a series of test flights between June 1 1960 and June 14 the following year.

The craft, called the Avrocar after the Canadian company that produced it, can be seen hovering a foot or so above the ground as it makes its way around the base, with one pilot at the controls.

Plans for the craft were first drawn up early in the Cold War, with each side desperate to find the next technological innovation. It was powered by a giant central fan, intended to lift it off the ground and propel it upwards.

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America spent millions of dollars creating a UFO-style alternative to helicopter

And the American military had big plans for the Avrocar, with some staggering projections for its performance. However, the reality of the aircraft fell way below expectations.

Designers had hoped that the craft would reach speeds of around 300 mph, with a maximum altitude of 10,000 feet and a range of 995 miles.

But, as can be seen in the video, the craft fell drastically short of the projections. It's maximum speed never reached above 35 mph, with a paltry maximum altitude of three feet and a range of just 79 miles.

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Designers had hoped that the craft would reach speeds of around 300 mph

The aircraft was re-financed several times by the American military before funding finally ran out in June 1961. At this point, with performance falling way below expectation and no signs of any immediate improvement, the military cancelled the project.

And, judged against its projections, it's easy to see why. Objectively speaking the Avrocar was a dismal failure, with several aspects of its design unfit for military use. The craft couldn't lift itself more than a few feet off the ground without becoming extremely unstable, and its design made high-speed performance tremendously difficult. Moreover, it emitted far too much sound and heat to mak }e it a suitable combat vehicle.

In total the US spent an estimated $10 million on the projection which, by today's standards, is actually relatively good value for money. It equates to approximately $100 million in today's money, a drop in the ocean in terms of military expenditure.

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

REAL flying saucers exposed in TOP SECRET footage from the Cold War

REAL flying saucers exposed in TOP SECRET footage from the Cold War

INCREDIBLE footage shows real life flying saucers taking flight in a top secret video from the Cold War.

By Henry Holloway

The UFO-style craft is seen hovering just above the ground as it hurtles along in a series of classified flying tests.

But this is not an alien spacecraft, it is actually a top secret US military project called the Avrocar.

Scientists masterminded the craft during the Cold War – believing it would be the next great military flying machine.

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FLYING SAUCER: Cold War footage of a real UFO-style aircraft has been released

“Flying saucers have long been probed as alternative means of air travel.”

Newly revealed videos show the secret aircraft being put through its paces around a base during test flight.

Designers had hoped that the craft would reach speeds of around 300 mph, with a maximum altitude of 10,000 feet and a range of 995 miles.

Avrocar designs fuelled rumours of the links between the US military and the fifties and sixties boom in UFO sightings.

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COLD WAR: The Avrocar was through to be a replacement for helicopters

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UFO: US scientists spent £80 million developing the Avrocar in the Cold War

Washington spent £80 million developing the Avrocar, only for the projection to never really get off the ground.

Russia and the US spent the Cold War at each others throats – each looking for new tech to one-up the other.

Funding for the flying saucer eventually ran dry in June 1961, and the Avrocar project was canned.

Flying saucers have long been probed as alternative means of air travel.

Bizarre theories believe Nazi Germany was the first to experiment with saucer technology – often linked to their “flying wing” the Horten Ho 229.

Conspiracy nuts go as far as to claim the Nazis reached space with their technology.

Designs for the Avrocar were shelved after it was found to only be able to hover around one foot off the ground.

When it travelled at high speeds, it became extremely unstable and it was far too loud to be a combat vehicle.

Daily Star Online revealed a theory that the Soviet Union actually reached the moon first during the Cold War.

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Nazi Germany's "Forbidden City" was siezed by Soviets until the end of the Cold War

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

By Live Science Staff

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.

Eclipse Apocalypse?

During a total solar eclipse, the moon completely obscures the sun for parts of the Earth. Careful calculations help researchers and the public determine where to go to see the total blackout.

Credit: Miloslav Druckmüller, Peter Aniol, Martin Dietzel, Vojtech Rusin via NASA

One month from today, the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21 will make its way across the U.S. from Oregon to South Carolina. As the clock ticks down to the big day, the question is: Are you prepared?

A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon completely blocks the disk of the sun. While partial solar eclipses are common, with two to five occurring around the world each year, a total solar eclipse happens somewhere on Earth only about once every 18 months. The last total solar eclipse touched the continental United States in 1979, and the last to cross from ocean to ocean occurred in 1918. [Read more about the necessary preparations.]

Losing a Son As the Father

Cecil the iconic lion and his pride in Hwange National Park in November 2012. Cecil's son, Xanda, was shot and killed on July 7, 2017.

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The 6-year-old son of Cecil the Lion was shot and killed on July 7 just outside Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, meeting the same end his father did in 2015, according to news reports.

A private hunter in Zimbabwe reportedly led the hunt that brought down Xanda, though his clients' identities are not known, according to a statement by Lions of Hwange National Park. [Read more about the lost giant.]

Stumbling Block

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Jude Sparks poses with the jawbone of a stegamastodon that he discovered while hiking in the desert in Las Cruces with his family.

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A 9-year-old boy hiking in the Las Cruces desert in New Mexico recently tripped over what is now thought to be a 1.2-million-year-old Stegomastodon skull.

After realizing Jude had tripped on a fossilized tusk, the Sparks contacted Peter Houde, a biology professor at NMSU who is also the curator-in-charge at the university's The Vertebrate Museum. [Read more about the fossils.]

Deadly Love

A stock photo of a man kissing a baby.

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A newborn baby in Iowa died this week from an infection with the virus that causes cold sores, which she likely contracted from a kiss, her doctors say. But how does this happen?

In newborns, catching HSV-1 infection from a kiss is "unusual but not unheard of," said Dr. Otto Ramos, medical director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami. [Read more about the serious virus.]

Stony Birthday

The Rosetta Stone has been on display at the British Museum since 1802.

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Exactly 218 years ago today, on July 19, 1799, French troops in Rosetta, Egypt, uncovered a striking black stone carved with three ancient texts: two Egyptian texts and a Greek one.

The discoverer of the Rosetta Stone was a French military officer, Pierre François Xavier Bouchard, who spotted it while he and his men were demolishing a wall to extend Fort Julien in Rosetta, a port city now known as Rashid. The troops were part of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, in which he (temporarily) conquered the country — and brought a bevy of scientists along who were eager to study what was to them unfamiliar land. [Read more about the discovery.]

Heir Apparent

Salvador Dalí's remains are set to be exhumed in order to collect DNA samples for a paternity claim against the artist's estate.

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In a surreal development almost worthy of one of his paintings, Salvador Dalí's grave is scheduled to be opened tomorrow (July 20) in an effort to collect DNA samples that could settle a paternity claim against the artist's estate.

A spokesperson for the Dalí estate told AFP that the exhumation was scheduled to proceed on July 20, but an appeal is being filed against the court's decision. [Read more about the family.]

Cracking Up

Scientists are monitoring new rifts that formed on the Larsen C ice shelf in the wake a major calving event last week.

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The trillion-ton iceberg that broke off Antarctica last week will not go quietly into the night.

Satellite images from ESA and the European Union’s Copernicus Program show that the massive iceberg is splintering and a constellation of smaller icebergs are surrounding it. The vagaries of ocean currents and buoyancy of ice will dictate how long the pack of 'bergs travels together. It's possible the smaller chunks could be the first drift north toward warmer waters in the South Atlantic where they would meet their likely demise. [Read more about the iceberg.]

Drone Blaster

The newly developed Laser Weapon System (LaWS) is situated on the USS Ponce, which is deployed to the Persian Gulf.

Credit: John F. Williams/US Navy

The world's first laser weapon — one that can "kill" threatening, airborne drones — is ready for action, according to news sources.

The LaWS laser beam is completely silent and invisible. It's also fast: The laser travels at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second, or about 300,000 kilometers per second), meaning it's about 50,000 times the speed of an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile, such as the one North Korea is testing, the Navy told CNN. [Read more about the laser.]

A Lost Continent

A map of Zealandia. Scientists aboard the Joides Resolution will visit six sites on this lost continent to take core samples later this summer.

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Scientists will soon venture to the world's hidden eighth continent, the sunken land of Zealandia.

In February, scientists argued in the journal GSA Today that Earth has a hidden eighth continent, which should be reflected on maps. [Read more about the eighth continent.]

King Tut's Wife

This shot of the Valley of the Kings shows the tomb entrances at Thebes in Egypt.

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Famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass and his team say they've found evidence of a tomb that could belong to King Tut's wife.

As for whose remains were buried there, Hawass said the tomb could belong to Ankhesenamun, who was the wife of Tutankhamun (reign 1336-1327 B.C.). Ankhesenamunmarried Ay after King Tut died, so it's possible that her tomb is located near Ay's, Hawass said. [Read more about the tomb.]

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

What the Drake Equation Can Tell Us About the Future of Humanity

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What the Drake Equation Can Tell Us About the Future of Humanity

IN BRIEF

The Drake Equation is a method of quantifying the likelihood of finding intelligent alien life. Many variables influence the equation, which continually expands, but there are limits as well.

The Drake Equation attempts to quantify how likely we are to find intelligent alien life.

It takes all of the variables required for an intelligent civilization to exist AND send out communication signals, then multiplies them together.

What the Drake Equation Can Tell Us About the Future of Humanity [Kelsey Pending]

The values of the variables on the left side of the equation are skyrocketing the more we explore the universe with telescopes and satellites. We’ve found far more star systems and planets capable of hosting life than we ever thought possible. Some estimates are as high as 60 billion planets in the Milky Way!

But the N value (the estimated number of alien civilizations in our galaxy capable of communication) must still be small because…well…we haven’t found them yet!

That begs that question — which of the variables on the right side, the unknowns, are the great filters causing that small N value?

The most critical variable to us on Earth is the last one. L is the length of time civilizations release detectable signals into space.

If L is responsible for the small N value, it could mean that species don’t often last long enough to create signals, let alone receive them. It would then stand to reason that the near-term destruction of our species is statistically probable.

SETI researchers hope that, instead, the great filter is behind us. Perhaps the emergence of intelligent life is the rare occurrence rather than how long those lifeforms survive.

Or maybe the Drake Equation is incomplete.

Maybe they have some Star Trek-esque ideal of never meddling with the growth of early-stage civilizations.

Maybe they are out there listening, but they’re so far away that our signals won’t reach them for centuries, and their replies will take just as long to hit our digital ears.

Maybe they’re so much more advanced that we’re just not that interesting to them.

…or maybe we’re one day away from receiving a reply.

Maybe.

References: Medium, SETI Institute

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Best Space Stories of The Week!

Best Space Stories of The Week!

By SPACE.com Staff

The south pole of Jupiter is seen from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers) in this enhanced color mosaic of images from NASA's JunoCam. Cyclones up to 600 miles wide (1,000 km) are visible.

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Juno gets a first look at Jupiter's marvelous poles, the world's largest (current) aircraft goes for a spin, Earth science loses on the proposed NASA budget and two astronauts perform an urgent spacewalk — it's Space.com's top news stories of the week.

Jupiter whirls

The first science results from NASA's Juno probe reveal huge cyclones raging near Jupiter's north and south poles and the workings of is spectacular auroras. Juno is the first spacecraft to get a close look the planet's beautiful and bizarre poles. [Full Story: Mysteries at Jupiter: NASA's Juno Probe Reveals Cyclones, Auroras & Surprises]

Plus: More Jupiter Weirdness: Giant Planet May Have Huge, 'Fuzzy' Core

Sperm survives space

Astronauts kept freeze-dried mouse sperm on the International Space Station for nine months — and when brought back to Earth it gave rise to healthy pups. [Full Story: Freeze-Dried Space Sperm Gives Rise to Healthy Baby Mice]

Fix it up

After a computer relay box malfunctioned, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer went out for a quickly-planned spacewalk to replace the failed part. (Don't worry, a backup took over in the meantime.) Whitson built the replacement from spare parts aboard the International Space Station. [Full Story: Astronauts Restore Space Station to Full Health in Quick Repair Spacewalk]

Clash of the dwarfs

New research suggests that most of the Milky Way's antimatter could come from the collision of two special kinds of white dwarfs — the Earth-size cores of dead stars. [Full Story: Supernova Face-Off May Solve 40-Year-Old Antimatter Mystery]

Mammoth flier success

A massive blimp-like aircraft called the Airlander 10 successfully flew for 180 minutes and landed, testing its improved landing technology and handling. It's the third test flight for the world's largest aircraft currently flying, which is designed to stay in the air for up to 5 days at a time with people on board. [World's Largest Aircraft Completes Successful Test Flight]

Earth science nix

The White House's official 2018 budget request curtails five NASA Earth-science missions, including the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem satellite; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 experiment; the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder; the Earth-viewing instruments aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft and, now, the Radiation Budget Experiment. [Full Story: Trump's 2018 Budget Request Axes 5 NASA Earth-Science Missions]

Plus: NASA's Proposed 2018 Budget Could Push Europa Mission to Late 2020s

Summer on Saturn

The Cassini spacecraft has seen Saturn through the seasons as the planet has orbited the sun, watching its dramatic changes. Now, it's finally the planet's solstice and the end of the spacecraft's second extended mission — just in time for its Sept. 15 Grand Finale dive into the planet's atmosphere. [Full Story: Saturn Solstice: Cassini Gets 'Ringside Seat' to Dramatic Seasonal Changes]

Listening in

The world's most sensitive dark matter detector, XENON1T, has gone online deep beneath a mountain in Italy, completing a 30-day science run hunting for the minuscule fireworks that could be caused by a certain type of dark matter ramming into a xenon atom inside the detector. [Full Story: The World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Is Now Up and Running]

It's a Phantom

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Boeing to build the U.S. military's new XS-1 space plane. The plane, called the Phantom Express, is designed to launch to the edge of space to deploy a second stage rocket, which would deposit a satellite in orbit. [Full Story: US Military's XS-1 Space Plane Will Be Built by Boeing (Video)]

Darkness coming

Get ready for the 2017 total solar eclipse, which will cross the continental United States Aug. 21 — less than three months from now. [Full Story: Countdown to Darkness: Total Solar Eclipse Three Months Away]

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

Mysterieuze mummies ontdekt in Siberië. Welke verloren beschaving leefde daar?

Mysterieuze mummies ontdekt in Siberië. Welke verloren beschaving leefde daar?

In Siberië zijn gemummificeerde leden van een nog onbekende beschaving opgegraven uit de permafrost. Dat schrijft The Siberian Times.

De ontdekkingen nabij de stad Salechard wijzen erop dat mensen lang geleden al in het uiterste noorden van Rusland actief waren.

“De gemummificeerde resten lagen naast elkaar en hun voeten wezen in de richting van de rivier,” zei hoofdonderzoeker Alexander Goesev.

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“De lichamen waren gewikkeld in cocons van berkenschors en stof,” vervolgde hij. “De cocon van de volwassene was van top tot teen bedekt met koperen platen.”

“De cocon van de baby was bedekt met fragmenten van een koperen ketel,” aldus Goesev. Hij schat dat het kind niet meer dan zes maanden oud was.

De cocon van de volwassene was 1,70 meter lang, wat betekent dat de man of vrouw die erin zit voor die tijd uitzonderlijk lang was.

Perzië

Onderzoekers van het Centrum voor Arctische Studies en de Nationale Universiteit van Seoel doen momenteel onderzoek naar de resten. Ze gaan onder meer het geslacht bepalen en de vondst dateren.

Het archeologische complex werd ontdekt in 1997. Er werden eerder al voorwerpen uit Perzië gevonden in het gebied.

In 2014 en 2015 werden op dezelfde plek ook al mysterieuze mummies ontdekt. Bekijk hieronder beelden van de cocons:

[The Siberian Times]

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Here's Why We Shouldn't Be Worried at All About That Morphing 'UFO'

Here's Why We Shouldn't Be Worried at All About That Morphing 'UFO'

It's never aliens. 😢

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If you've been keeping up with the news in the UK, you might have heard about a morphing UFO appearing at a number of locations across Cornwall last week.

We're telling you guys straight up – this is not aliens, despite some hashtags on the footage.

While it's a little annoying that we're not any closer to an actual aliens, the footage itself is pretty damn cool.

Check out the video of the 'UFO' below, apparently taken last week on the A30 in Cornwall:

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There's actually been a bunch of Instagram 'sightings' across Cornwall, including over Roche Rock:

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And a twitter video over Fistral Beach:

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And this girl who just happened to see it before her hair appointment:

Neither of those things make sense over the timeframe, which had footage being uploaded over a number of days.

Well, as both Twitter and Instagram commenters pointed out, unfortunately it's nothing that cool – instead it's likely to be a giant publicity stunt for the Eden Project, a botanical garden in Cornwall.

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Speaking to The Sun Online, a spokesperson for the project said "It's true we have a galaxy of ways to tell the story of space at Eden this summer."

"To coin a phrase…The truth is out there."

Although we don't have much information to go on at this stage, it's assumed that the videos have been doctored using CGI and released to a number of people to share the UFO 'sighting'.

Yeah, we're just as disappointed as you are, but if you want to see some incredible real footage, check out this bird murmuration video taken by Jan van IJken, in the Netherlands:

We're calling it now - nature beats publicity stunts any day.

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

Plane passenger captured glowing TR-3B triangle UFO over Georgia

Plane passenger captured glowing TR-3B triangle UFO over Georgia

Is it possible that a plane passenger has photographed the mysterious and secret TR-3B?

Witness states: I was traveling (passenger), north on I-185 in west central Georgia, around 1:30 am.

With my iPhone, I was taking pictures of the clouds illuminated by the moon. I took 40-50 pictures, and saw only the beautiful clouds.

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In the morning I was going through the pictures, and was shocked and excited to see some type of craft in two of the pictures.

It's shaped similarly to our stealth bombers, but not exactly. Also, it was glowing, and/or reflecting a bluish white. I have no idea what it was. I've shown the pictures to many people, and like me, they were clueless as to its identity.

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Note: The TR-3B doesn't exist officially but the allegations are that these spy crafts are created at top-secret military bases like Area 51, in Nevada, by reverse engineering alien technology.

It uses highly pressured mercury accelerated by nuclear energy to produce plasma that creates a field of anti-gravity around the craft. The plasma generated also reduces radar signature significantly. So it'll be almost invisible on radar and remain undetected.

The image was taken on April 19, 2017 and submitted to Mufon, case nr. 85293.

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

NASA: There’s No Evidence of a Mars Civilization Thousands of Years Ago

NASA: There’s No Evidence of a Mars Civilization Thousands of Years Ago

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A US Congressman asked NASA whether Mars hosted an alien civilization at some point. Despite potentially favorable conditions on the red planet, it is almost infinitely unlikely that the planet ever hosted sophisticated life in the way suggested.

A hearing held by the House Science Committee that aimed to discuss the largest of NASA’s upcoming projects — including launching another Mars rover in 2020 and a Europa flyby mission with a possible subsequent landing — took a strange turn when congressman Dana Rohrabacher, of California, asked “Is it possible that there was a civilization on Mars thousands of years ago?”

Kenneth Farley, a professor of geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology and project scientist for the 2020 rover team, answered: “there’s no evidence that, uhh, I’m aware of […] I would say that is extremely unlikely.” Additionally, he corrected Rohrabacher’s timeline by saying that “the evidence is that Mars was different billions of years ago. Not thousands of years ago.”

Conditions on Mars could have been conducive to life in the past — scientists have found water on the red planet along with its atmosphere would have been more habitable before it was stripped by cosmic and solar winds. Recently, a team from the University of Arkansas has argued that even current conditions on the Red Planet could be capable of hosting microbial life.

The chances of our planetary neighbor ever hosting a civilization, however, are extremely small — although some, perhaps not entirely credible sources, claim that evidence of a previous sophisticated species can be found in photos released by the Curiosity Rover, which may show a six inch man who bares a startling similarity to the Atacama Alien found in Chile.

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Russian Scientists Just Launched An “Artificial Star” That Could Threaten Astronomy

Russian Scientists Just Launched An “Artificial Star” That Could Threaten Astronomy

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A Russian Soyuz rocket has successfully launched a controversial satellite into orbit, which will become one of our brightest stars in a few days – and may hamper astronomical observations.

The satellite is called Mayak, developed by Moscow State Mechanical Engineering University (MAMU) and funded with $30,000 through Russian crowdfunding website Boomstarter. We first learned about it back in early 2016, and on Friday, July 14, it launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan along with 72 other satellites.

“The satellite launch was good, and we are waiting for NORAD [North American Aerospace Defense Command] to track it,” Alexander Panov from Mayak told IFLScience. “Roscosmos reported that everything was as planned, without any additional info.”

Mayak is a cubesat, a small satellite about the size of a loaf of bread. But once in position about 600 kilometers (370 miles) above Earth, it will unfurl a giant pyramid-shaped sail made of Mylar that’s designed to reflect the Sun. It will span 16 square meters (170 square feet) and is apparently 20 times thinner than human hair.

Klichnikova said they expected the satellite to unfurl in a few days, and they will be tracking it on the ground from Caucasus on the border of Europe and Asia next week.

The company says the goal of the mission is to inspire people to look up to space, as well as testing technology to de-orbit satellites. Using an app on their phone, backers of the project can track its location and find out when it’s flying overhead.

The satellite will remain in orbit for at least a month, although at such a high altitude, there’s a possibility it could stay there for many more months if it’s orbit does not properly degrade as planned.

By their calculations, the company says it will shine with a magnitude of -10, third only to the Sun and the Moon. Our calculations suggest it will be -3, making it the fourth brightest object in the night sky after Venus.

Either way, if the unfurling is successful, Mayak is sure to pose problems. The brightness of the satellite could hamper regular astronomers looking at the night sky. And it could pose a bigger problem for all-sky surveys, which monitor the entire sky.

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Astronomers often have to deal with other artificial objects, including satellites that occasionally shine brightly when they reflect the Sun. Some of the brightest of these are known as iridium flares. But these are an annoyance in of themselves; astronomers certainly don’t want other objects to hamper their observations.

“The brightness is the issue,” Nick Howes, an astronomer and former deputy director of the Kielder Observatory in Northumberland, told IFLScience. “Other satellites bar the ISS are relatively faint, and that’s a scientific mission. This is just a stunt.

“Despite what appears to be significant public and social media backlash against this by the astronomical community, they have proceeded to launch. One can only hope the mission fails and the plan to blight our pristine dark skies never takes shape.”

Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told IFLScience: “I think at least one of these can be lived with, but if there were a bunch of them it would make modern astronomy almost impossible.”

Not all astronomers think it’s a bad idea, however. Michael Wood-Vasey, from the University of Pittsburgh, said Mayak was “quite unlikely to be a problem for astronomers.”

He added: “Mayak is orbiting just above the day/night terminator line – it’s always sunrise/sunset below where Mayak is orbiting. It will thus be too low on (or even below) the horizon when it really gets dark enough for astronomers to observe.”

For their part, the company says there is a scientific purpose for the mission. Aside from just shining brightly, the satellite will also test how to brake in orbit, with the large surface area causing more atmospheric drag and bringing it back into the atmosphere to burn up. This technology could be used to deorbit old satellites and space junk in the future.

However, there are undoubtedly other ways to test this technology without also causing a nuisance. One of these alone might not be an issue, but if this set a precedent for more in future, that probably wouldn’t be great.

Source www.iflscience.com

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

Two large UFOs have been seen flying over Chelmsford

Two large UFOs have been seen flying over Chelmsford

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A man has described his surprise at seeing two large UFOs in the sky over Chelmsford.

The resident, who did not want to be named, saw the objects in the air over Manor Road where he lives on Monday afternoon (July 17).

The two UFOs, which were different shapes, were first spotted by a group of people in the street just outside the city centre.

The man who contacted Essex Live said he was in his garden when he saw a small group of passers-by staring up into the sky.

“I heard one of them say ‘is it a bird?’ but then the others said ‘that is no bird’,” he said.

No one who saw the objects had any idea what they were

“When I looked up I saw two large objects in the sky. They were jet black underneath. They were quite big and quite high up. They were sort of rolling over and over in the sky. At first I thought they were bits of a large balloon but they didn’t move like that.

“Then I wondered if they were bits of plastic that had got up into the sky but they were moving faster than the wind which didn’t make sense. One was almost a cylinder shape and the other was longer. It was very strange.

“There is no way they were aeroplanes. At this point I rushed indoors to get my camera and when I came back they had moved a bit further away but I managed to get a few snaps.

The objects were said to be moving ‘faster than the wind’

“I have never seen anything like it before. I have no clue what they were. They seemed to be almost linked together as they kept at roughly the same distance apart the whole time.

“I watched them move off into the distance as they headed towards the cricket ground but then I lost sight of them. I wouldn’t like to say what they were, I really have no idea.”

The man has since showed the photos to “six or seven” people and no one has been able to hazard a guess at what they might be.

Source www.essexlive.news

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High-Ranking Republican Asks NASA: “Was There A Civilization On Mars?”

High-Ranking Republican Asks NASA: “Was There A Civilization On Mars?”

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One of the high-ranking members of this committee, Dana Rohrabacher, has said some truly remarkable things in the past, but he’s just outdone himself. During a panel with several space science experts, including those from NASA, he asked: “Is it possible that there was a civilization on Mars thousands of years ago?”

That’s right – an alien civilization. Not microbes, but full-blown Martians with cities and spacecraft.

Rohrabacher, by the way, had to ask special permission from the chairman to ask this question, the last of several of his – so clearly he was eager to find out the answer. The experts look at each other for a few awkward seconds, before one decides to heroically take up the challenge.

“Mars was different billions of years ago, not thousands of years ago,” one responds. Clearly stifling a laugh or at least a grin, he says that “There’s no evidence that I’m aware of that–” before being cut off by Rohrabacher.

“Would you rule that out? That – see, there are some people…well, anyway,” Rohrabacher replied. He may be alluding here to the mind-blowingly stupid conspiracy theories claiming NASA has a colony of child slaves on the Red Planet. Alternatively, he could be referring one of several alien-spotting YouTube channels.

“I would say that is extremely unlikely,” the expert responded.

That expert, by the way, is Dr Ken Farley, a project scientist on the Mars 2020 Rover Project. Instead of talking about that exciting mission and advancing the field of space exploration, he’s having to talk about ancient alien civilizations on Mars.

This type of madness is par for the course for Rohrabacher. After all, he once claimed that dinosaur farts caused deadly climate change. Although this turned out to be a joke, the fact that it was widely interpreted at the time as him being serious is all you need to know about how his scientific know-how, or lack thereof, is perceived.

He also suggested back in 2011 that in order to stop climate change, we should destroy all of the rainforests. You know, those carbon dioxide-absorbing rainforests.

Just as a reminder, Rohrabacher is a senior ranking Republican who has a powerful influence over America’s science policy. No wonder scientists are running for Congress in the hope of displacing Rohrabacher, and plenty of others like him.

Source www.iflscience.com

ALIEN LIFE, UFO- CRASHES, ABDUCTIONS, MEN IN BLACK, ed ( FR. , NL; E )

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Maandag 24 juli 2017

Is Earth a Prison/Slave Planet ?

Is Earth a Prison/Slave Planet ?

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Earth Was Chosen To Be A Prison Planet

Science has proven that “hominids” have lived on this planet for a very long time. It has also proven that Homo Sapiens Sapiens (Cro-Magnon or Modern man) have not. Our ancestors were quarantined to Earth in order to stop, or at the very least isolate, the spread of mental illness, crime and murder. And, like our ancestors, we are prone to exhibiting the same criminal behavior and mental illness.

It is an inescapable part of our nature. It is not our fault, but rather it was caused by deviated genetic code. There is not a single human who is free of violent, lustful, vengeful, thieving and/or murderous thoughts. The unnatural horrors that humans experience on this planet are almost always caused by our species. Humans lie, steal, cheat, rape, murder and pollute. When we can no longer exert more dominion over air, water, land and animal, we victimize our own kind. We are a horrible menace to ourselves, to all the creatures of this planet, and to interstellar civilization.

The treacherous and murderous ways of human beings remain a very real threat to peace in the universe.

Earth was chosen to become a prison planet because of its remote location, varied climates, and the ability to support hominid life forms. Our ancestors were placed on different continents, selected for similarities to their physical characteristics and former climatic environments. Even though our ancestors varied in language, size, shape and color, all were Cro-Magnon. But, before being placed on Earth, our ancestors were stripped of all memory of their former lives.

It was believed that if the prisoners survived, they would do so in a primal state, co-existing by building relationships and possibly even interbreeding, with Earth’s native hominid species. It was a belief that was proven very wrong. We immediately began to dominate everything that came into our path. And, the sudden terrestrial appearance of modern man was on a scale so large, that it allowed Cro-Magnoids to drive Neanderthals, who had been at the top of Earth’s food chain for well over 200,000 years, to near global extinction within just a few thousand years.

At first, it appeared as though the Cro-magnon exile was proceeding as planned, but within a thousand years it became obvious that very serious oversights and assumptions had been made. The concept of prisoners remaining in a primal state was shattered when our ancestors began creating a microcosm of interstellar civilization. Earth, for the first time in its history, became witness to art, architecture, animal husbandry, agriculture, written languages, advanced mathematics, technology, law, religion and government. It also became witness to the atrocities of modern man. And, instead of interbreeding with other species, we began the systematic manipulation and/or destruction of other life forms.

Testing revealed that the surprising intellectual and technological development of our ancestors was the result of genetic memory, which caused us to experience intellectual reversion, rather than progression. This set off a very heated debate. One group called for the immediate extermination of our ancestors before they genetically “remembered” to the point of achieving interstellar flight, and possible re-infection of intergalactic civilization. The others were firmly convinced that, if given enough time, we would self-destruct and sought to simply observe and curtail our development.

An impasse was eventually reached, and further direct contact was forbidden. Continued observation and assessment of the prison planet was agreed upon, under strict conditions. It is important to note that one of the most significant turning points in last ten million years of Earth’s history occurred when our ancestors arrived on Earth, and began neanderthal annihilation.

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Our incarceration on Earth was not agreed to by all. From the first days of our imprisonment on Earth, sympathizers in UFOs have slipped past ‘security’ and assisted select civilizations. These extraterrestrial visits always resulted in dramatic leaps of intellectual ability and technological accomplishment. Unfortunately, virtually all of those civilizations and their advanced technologies met with very sudden disaster, and in the majority of the cases, extinction. The true causes remain unknown.

Source www.ancestryofman.com

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ALIEN LIFE, UFO- CRASHES, ABDUCTIONS, MEN IN BLACK, ed ( FR. , NL; E )

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Zondag 23 juli 2017

50 Years Ago, a Small Town Ohio Policeman Chased a Flying Saucer Into Pennsylvania… And It Ruined His Life

50 Years Ago, a Small Town Ohio Policeman Chased a Flying Saucer Into Pennsylvania… And It Ruined His Life

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We met at Mike’s Place, the greasy spoon near Kent State with the X-Wing parked out front. It seemed appropriate – it was fifty years ago, this week, that James Evans’ father chased some kind of spacecraft into Pennsylvania. They seated us inside the converted school bus near the back of the place. He ordered biscuits and gravy and told me about what his old man saw, back in 1966.

“He didn’t like to talk about it,” James said. “And when he would, he always said, ‘I wished I’d never seen it.’”

James Evans, Dale Spaur's son

James Evans, Dale Spaur’s son

Dale Spaur was a deputy Sheriff for Portage County in 1966. Big dude – 6’7”. Wicked sense of humor. Former gunner on a B-51 in the Korean War. He was known on the force for having a bit of a lead foot, reprimanded for taking turns too fast in his cruiser on Main Street in Ravenna. He worked the night shift with his partner, Wilbur Neff, known as “Barney” to friends. Spaur was a good cop with a good family – a wife and two boys at home. But everything changed the morning of April 17, 1966.

Spaur and Neff were called out to an abandoned vehicle on the side of State Route224, near the town of Atwater, at about 5 a.m. It was an isolated stretch of country road, lined with trees. They got out of their cruiser to investigate and that’s when Spaur spotted a glowing craft rising out of the woods. It reached treetop level and then began to move toward them, according to an article that appeared in the Record-Courier the following day. It was shaped sort of like an ice cream cone tipped on its side, a little pointed end sticking up in the back, and it made a sound like “an over-loaded transformer.” When it came close, they could feel the heat baking off of it. Slowly, it started east, down 224.

Dale Spaur

The two deputies returned to their cruiser and radioed in to dispatch. The sergeant on duty told them to follow it. The chase was on.

The faster Spaur pursued in his cruiser, the faster the object accelerated. Soon they were speeding east down old Route 14 into the rising sun, the odometer edging past 100 mph. Occasionally they’d have to stop for lights or traffic, though, and when they did the craft slowed down, too, like it was playing a game of “cat-and-mouse,” Spaur would later explain.

Along the way, Spaur and Neff were joined by East Palestine police officer, Wayne Huston, who followed in his own car. They chased the UFO all the way into Pennsylvania, where Spaur was finally forced to stop for gas. Another cop – Frank Panzanella – was already waiting at the service station. The four officers watched the UFO dart straight up into the sky and disappear.

By the time Spaur made it home, the local newspapers had the story. Headline: THEY TAILED A SAUCER 86 MILES! The national news picked it up and within three days, they were getting calls from Japan. At the station, Spaur and Neff were ridiculed. Neff took it in stride but it really got to Spaur, who lost twenty pounds from the stress of it all. Then men from Project Blue Book – the military’s Cold War UFO-investigation department – arrived. After interviewing everyone, they determined that the object the four police officers saw that morning was the planet Venus refracted through fog.

By all accounts, Spaur suffered an emotional breakdown after this. Within six months, he’d lost his job. His wife left with the children. In October, a Plain Dealer reporter found him living out of a motel, subsisting on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. “Thirty-four years old and what do I have? Nothing,” he said. “Who knows me? To everyone, I’m Dale Spaur, the nut who chased a flying saucer.”

James didn’t know who his real father was until he was thirteen – after the divorce, his mother remarried and James was adopted by his stepfather. He was watching Good Morning America with his older brother, Dale Jr., when a tall man was invited on the program to talk about flying saucers.

“My mother came in and said, ‘That’s your dad.’” The boys wanted to meet him so Daneise called the television station and the show’s producers passed along her message. Two weeks later, Dale Spaur pulled into the driveway in a big pickup truck. “I remember watching him get out,” said James. “It was like he unfolded out of the truck when he stepped out, he was so big.” During his visit, he told his boys about his adventures since leaving Portage County.

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It had taken time, but Spaur had finally gotten his life back together. Not long after that reporter found him at the motel, Dale moved to West Virginia, where he worked in the mines. He had a terrible accident there, falling seventy feet down a shaft, breaking his back. He lay in a coma in the hospital for several days, eyes wide open but completely out of it. “A nurse was supposed to sit with him the whole time,” said James. “But she only lasted a couple hours. I guess she came running out of the room, screaming, ‘This man is possessed by an alien!’”

When he recovered, Spaur moved back to Ohio and settled in Rocky River. He remarried, opened a bar called the Avenue at West 65th and Detroit Road in Cleveland, and on rare occasions told stories about the UFO he called “Floyd,” which he claimed visited him sometimes when nobody else was around.

Later, he did a little consulting for Stephen Spielberg’s movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but walked off set in a huff after he found out the main character was not a cop, said James. The film opens with a police officer chasing a UFO shaped kind of like an ice cream cone on its side.

Spaur died on April 4th, 1983, never recovering from severe pneumonia after catching the flu. James remembers an endless stream of people he’d never seen before at his father’s funeral. He never knew his father had so many friends.
“I look up and five Eskimos are standing there. Where did they come from? How did they know my father?”

I asked James what he thinks after all these years. What did his father see in the skies above Portage County fifty years ago?

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“He believed what he saw was extra-terrestrial,” said James. “I believe him. Nothing we made could fly like that. In Pennsylvania, it hovered over his car. He could feel the heat coming off it. Then it went straight up and disappeared. Poof. Gone! And remember, my father served in the Air Force. You couldn’t put a bird up there he doesn’t recognize.”

If there’s definitive proof, the military has it. Spaur and Neff kept a camera in the cruiser. They took dozens of photographs. But when Blue Book came to town, the G-men confiscated the negatives. They have never been released.

Source www.clevescene.com