NASA looks into sending astronauts on a trip beyond the moon as early as 2019

NASA and its commercial partners say they’re studying the possibility of sending astronauts beyond the moon years earlier than planned, by putting a crew on the first flight of the space agency’s heavy-lift Space Launch System.

The NASA study, sparked in part by a desire for the Trump administration to do something dramatic in space during its first term, would consider whether such a flight could occur in 2019 or 2020.

The current plan calls for an uncrewed test flight of the SLS and NASA’s Orion capsule in late 2018, known as Exploration Mission-1 or EM-1. That mission would followed by a crewed test flight called EM-2 in the 2021-2023 time frame.

In a statement, NASA said acting administrator Robert Lightfoot asked Bill Gerstenmaier, the agency’s associate administrator for human exploration and operations, to assess whether the first crew could ride on EM-1 instead of EM-2.

“The study will examine the opportunities it could present to accelerate the effort of the first crewed flight and what it would take to accomplish that first step of pushing humans farther into space,” NASA said.

Gerstenmaier discussed the study with NASA’s commercial Orion/SLS partners at a conference today in Washington, D.C. NASA representatives declined to specify how long the study would take, but some of the reports that emerged after Gerstenmaier’s talk suggested a 30-day time frame.

Boeing, Lockheed Martin on board

EM-1’s current mission plan calls for sending the Orion capsule on a trajectory beyond the moon, most likely into lunar orbit, and then back to Earth. No lunar landing would be attempted. The trip would be similar to Apollo 8’s “Earthrise” mission in 1968. The current plan calls for EM-2 to go beyond the moon as well.

The revised plan would force NASA and its partners to ensure that EM-1 had all the safety and life support features required for human spaceflight. That’s why EM-1 would have to fly somewhat later that currently planned.

The crewed Orion/SLS flight would mark the first trip for humans beyond Earth orbit since NASA’s last Apollo moon mission in 1972. There’s another historical angle if the round-the-moon flight were to take place in 2019, in that it would come during the golden anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin, NASA’s two main commercial partners in the multibillion-dollar Orion/SLS program, both said they’d look into accelerating their schedules. Boeing is the prime contractor for the SLS rocket, while Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor for the Orion crew capsule.

“The possibility of NASA accelerating the timeline to put humans into the vicinity of the moon and onto Mars is exciting,” Boeing spokeswoman Kelly Kaplan said in an email. “Safety of the crew is most important, so of course there will be many factors we will consider as we assess the feasibility of adding crew to EM-1. We applaud NASA’s bold path forward in this transition time, and we’re proud to be a part of the journey to Mars.”

Lockheed Martin is also on board with the study, said Allison Miller, a spokeswoman for the company’s Orion program. “We’ll look at accelerating remaining crew system designs, as well as potential technical and schedule challenges and how to mitigate them,” she said in an email.

Trump’s space strategy

Word of the potential schedule shift comes after weeks of speculation over how President Donald Trump and his advisers might change the focus of the nation’s space program.

Trump’s predecessor, President Barack Obama, had initially set NASA’s sights on sending astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid in the mid-2020s, followed by trips to Mars and its moons in the 2030s.

Those plans have morphed over the years, and at the same time, billionaire-backed commercial ventures such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin have upped the ante. Last fall, Musk unveiled plans to send settlers to Mars in the 2020s, and Blue Origin executives said their long-term vision for spaceflight included trips to the moon and Mars as well.

Some of Trump’s advisers reportedly pressed for an accelerated campaign to send astronauts on trips around the moon, and put commercial robotic landers on the moon’s surface, by 2020. One scenario even called for an “internal competition” between NASA’s traditional industrial partners and more recent market entrants such as SpaceX and Blue Origin.

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who advised Trump during the presidential campaign, told Politico last week that “a good part of the Trump administration would like a lot more aggressive, risk-taking, competitive entrepreneurial approach to space.”

NASA’s Lightfoot addressed the debate in a memo he sent to the space agency’s employees today.

“There has been a lot of speculation in the public discourse about NASA being pulled in two directions – what has come before and what we want to do now,” he said in the memo, as reported by NASA Watch. “At NASA, this is an ‘and’ proposition, not an ‘or.’ … We must work with everyone to secure our leadership in space – and we will.”

Trump hasn’t yet nominated an administrator for NASA. Lightfoot is serving in a caretaker role – but he is regarded as one of the prospects for the official appointment, along with U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla.

Speeding up the schedule for sending astronauts beyond Earth orbit carries significant risks. It would be highly unusual for humans to get on board for the first test launch of a new type of rocket. Contractors would have to shorten their time frame for testing the hardware needed for crewed flight, ranging from launch abort systems to life support systems.

Keith Cowing, a former NASA employee who now runs the independent NASA Watch website, said in a posting that the schedule speed-up looked like a “Hail Mary pass” for the expensive SLS program.

“To move this rather important milestone up now in the midst of dueling and ever-shifting policy directions – for no clearly articulated reason other than politics – starts to smell like launch fever to me,” he wrote.

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SpaceX to send two people around the moon who paid for a 2018 private mission

Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, revealed on Monday that two people have paid for a private mission around the moon, tentatively set for launch in 2018 with the private company’s yet untested Falcon Heavy rocket.

In a conference call with reporters, Musk declined to name the people or what they had paid, though he said the individuals know each other and are “very serious” about the flight. The “private citizens” approached the company late last year and will receive training and take health and fitness tests as early as this year.

Musk said the circumlunar journey would take about a week, nearing the moon’s surface without landing on it before its return to Earth. The total flight would go about 300,000 to 400,000 miles into space, he said, meaning the flight could take humans farther from Earth than ever before.

If SpaceX accomplishes the trip before Nasa or another space agency can send astronauts to the moon, it would be the first lunar mission with humans in 45 years, on a course that would extend past the record 249,000 miles traveled by the Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970.

SpaceX said in a statement that the would-be passengers “have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission”, and Musk called the cost “comparable” to that of sending astronauts to the International Space Station. Nasa currently pays Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, about $70m a person to fly astronauts to the ISS.

“Other flight teams have also expressed strong interest and we expect more to follow,” the company statement read. “Additional information will be released about the flight teams, contingent upon their approval and confirmation of the health and fitness test results.”

The flight would rely on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the massive engine that the company hopes to test for the first time this summer, and a Dragon 2 capsule. Musk said that the capsule had a “quite high” success rate for missions so far.

The passengers were “nobody from Hollywood”, Musk said.

He acknowledged that the flight would be dangerous but said the customers have “their eyes open” about what could happen. “We’re doing everything we can to minimize that risk, but it’s not zero,” Musk said.

“We would expect to do more than one mission of this nature,” he added.

While Nasa has contracted SpaceX to launch crewed missions to the International Space Station, the company has not yet flown any missions with humans. Musk said the space agency would receive priority if it decided to do another lunar mission first, and that the private trip would need a license from the Federal Aviation Administration. Nasa’s acting administrator, Robert Lightfoot, has said that the agency is reviewing a possible return to the moon or a flight into deep space beyond it.

The company will test its Crew Dragon spacecraft without humans on board later this mission and is scheduled to fly a crewed mission to the space station in 2018.

In its 15-year history, SpaceX and its founder have accrued a steady record of ambitious goals and blown deadlines. In 2011, Musk said that SpaceX would “be ready to fly its first manned mission in 2014”. That same year, he told the Wall Street Journal that he hoped to take humans to Mars by 2021 in a “best case” scenario, an estimate that he pushed back to 2024 last year. And though SpaceX has launched and landed eight reusable rockets, it has also suffered setbacks of failed landings and last year’s launchpad explosion that destroyed the expensive rocket and its satellite payload.

Earlier this month, the Government Accountability Office warned of safety concerns in a review of SpaceX’s rockets and plans, suggesting that there are more delays ahead. The report noted that both SpaceX and another private contractor, United Launch Alliance, have consistently failed to meet deadlines.

Musk remained optimistic on the call, saying, “Next year is going to be the big year for carrying people.”

In a statement, Nasa said it “commends its industry partners for reaching higher”.

“We will work closely with SpaceX to ensure it safely meets the contractual obligations to return the launch of astronauts to US soil and continue to successfully deliver supplies to the International Space Station,” the agency said.

The company currently flies cargo missions to the ISS in a Dragon capsule, and successfully launched and landed its eighth reusable Falcon 9 rocket, part of a fleet that Musk hopes will help usher in an era of easier, relatively cheap space travel.

In its statement, SpaceX said that Nasa has encouraged privately crewed missions, saying that through them “long-term costs to the government decline and more flight reliability history is gained, benefiting both government and private missions”.

Only after crewed missions have begun for Nasa, SpaceX said, will the company launch its mission around the moon, from the Cape Canaveral launchpad used by the Apollo program. “This presents an opportunity for humans to return to deep space for the first time in 45 years and they will travel faster and further into the Solar System than any before them,” the company said.

Rival spaceflight company Blue Origins, headed by the Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, has also announced plans to eventually take people and cargo to low Earth orbit with its own reusable rockets. In 2001, billionaire Dennis Tito became the world’s first space tourist for an estimated $20m, booking a trip on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station, and about half a dozen others followed him into orbit.

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UFO shot down by Military before they were attacked and killed by the surviving aliens!!

USAF shot down a UFO before they were attacked and killed by the surviving aliens, it is sensationally claimed in a declassified CIA report.The report suggested that a low flying flying saucer had appeared over a military unit in training in Siberia, before one of the soldiers fired a surface to air missile, bringing it down.

The shocking report, which includes claims that 23 soldiers were turned into stone by the aliens in the UFO after they transformed into a ball of light, was buried among thousands of declassified files published online by the US intelligence agency.

The report in question, created on March 27 1993, is a translation by the CIA of a report from the Ukrainian newspaper Ternopil vechirniy.

The newspaper report said that after Mikhail Gorbachev lost power in 1991, many KGB files made their way to the CIA, including an alleged 250-page dossier on the bizarre UFO attack, which included pictures and witness testimonies.

The report suggested that a low flying flying saucer had appeared over a military unit in training in Siberia, before one of the soldiers fired a surface to air missile, bringing it down.

It said: "Five short humanoids with large heads and large black eyes got out.”

Two soldiers are said to have survived, who described how, after emerging from the debris, the five beings merged into a brilliant white spherical ball of light that buzzed and hissed.

It then exploded, and as it did 23 soldiers who stood watching were turned into stone, the report claimed.

The two survivors had been in a shaded area, it said.

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Mars More Toxic to Life Than Previously Thought

Mount Sharp on Mars, as imaged by the Curiosity rover. 

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Life on Mars … does it exist? Depending on when you last checked in with news about the Red Planet, you could probably be convinced either way. As we discover more and more about the composition and planetary dynamics of Mars, there has been cause for both elation and disappointment regarding the likelihood that organic life could manage to eke out a living on the planet.

The pendulum swung back toward the “no” side today with the release of a study examining how a special kind of salt on Mars interacts with ultraviolet radiation there. Martian soil is laced with perchlorates, an ion composed of one chlorine and four oxygen atoms, and which binds to a number of different elements to form various compounds. It’s classified as a salt, and was initially cause for celebration among extraterrestrial hopefuls because it drastically lowers the freezing point of water, meaning that liquid H20 might conceivably exist on the surface. It can also be used to produce rocket fuel and oxygen, another plus for future settlers.

Salt of the Mars

It turns out that these perchlorates are actually highly toxic to life when bathed in UV radiation that pummels Mars. Researchers from the United Kingdom Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh exposed a strain of bacteria commonly found on spacecraft to levels of perchlorates and UV light found on the Red Planet and found that nearly all of them were dead within a minute. They tried this with several different kinds of perchlorate, and found similar results every time. Adding in additional environmental factors found on Mars like low temperatures, additional minerals found on Mars and a lack of oxygen also failed to keep the bacteria alive.

This was a bit surprising for the researchers because the strain of bacteria used, Bacillus subtilis, belongs to a genus that actually does fine in the presence of perchlorates, as studies of the microbes in terrestrial environments have confirmed. These findings were initially good news for researchers looking for extraterrestrial life, as they suggested that some forms of life could survive in Martian analogue conditions.

It Takes More Than Salt

There’s more to Mars than just the soil though, and when the Edinburgh researchers added in a few more Mars-like factors — UV specifically — the bacteria died in short order. They think this happens because the UV light breaks apart the perchlorate molecules into more reactive ions that wreak havoc on living cells. This hypothesis was backed up by the observation that low temperatures, which slow down chemical reactions, extended the lifespan of the bacteria in the perchlorates but still resulted in them dying. If they can’t survive there, it significantly lowers our chances of finding life on Mars — life that looks similar to organisms on Earth at least. The researchers published their findings Thursday in Nature Scientific Reports.

While it’s a blow to the possibility of finding life on Mars, there is at least one upside to the news: NASA regularly worries about the possibility of contaminating other planets with Earthly bacteria, even going so far as to crash probes into Saturn so that they don’t hit the planet’s moons. If Mars is so hostile to bacteria that they can’t even make it a minute on the surface, our fears of contamination could be pretty much resolved.

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What was this UFO above Gloucester?

What on Earth is it?

BY TOM GIBBON, BEN FALCONER

Just what on Earth - or perhaps Mars or Jupiter - is this?

This apparently intergalactic lightshow was filmed above Gloucester.

The mysterious orb was first spotted by Rob Wheatman in Elmbridge in March and he had a powerful enough camera to zoom right in on it.

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Rob said: "I saw it as a sparkling 'star' from the garden in Elmbridge, due south. What alerted me was an orange light that came from it and travelled at speed north east.

"I grabbed my video and luckily it has a 40x zoom and that's when I got the images of the bizarre light you saw."

Another video was taken showing a 'UFO' in the skies above Gloucestershire at around the same time.

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It was taken by Ryan Gribbon in Hucclecote.

It is the second video showing strange lights in the sky above the city.

We don't know what the lights are, but we are sure you, our readers, have a lot of suggestions.

You can let us know at citizen.news@glosmedia.co.uk

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Second UFO sighting reported over the Sooke Basin

Sooke resident Ethan Dunn spots a shiny flying object in the sky

Another UFO sighting has been reported in Sooke.

Ethan Dunn, 10, spotted the unfamiliar object from his house floating high in the sky over the Sooke Basin while he was eating dinner last week.

Taken on the morning of June 4 by a resident in Hope of a “strange blurry object.” (ufosnw.com)

“It almost looked like a dinner plate,” Dunn said. “It was shiny and silver and flying much higher than a plane would go.”

Two weeks ago Sooke resident Ann Talbot reported a similar object near the same location.

“I didn’t know what it could be, it was interesting. I didn’t think it was a meteorite, because it would have had a trail. I couldn’t hear a thing, no buzzing, no whooshing sound, nothing,” Talbot said.

Talbot also described the UFO to be bright and perfectly round. Both Sooke residents said the object floated higher than a drone would be able to, and moved faster than a plane could cross the sky.

“I saw it and wondered if it correlates to what other people had seen,” Dunn said. “It looked much larger than a drone so I don’t think it could have been that.”

He described the UFO to be “fairly large” but found it hard to compare to anything because it was too far away.

Dunn said the object stayed in sight for around 10 seconds before he lost sight of it.

“It was like it vanished into thin air,” he said. “One second it was there and the next it had disappeared.”

One thing’s certain, whatever the objects may have been, they weren’t military, said Greg Menzies, a media spokesperson at CFB Esquimalt.

“We have no drones flying around, and we don’t participate in exercises in the Sooke Basin.”

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15,000 UFO ENTHUSIASTS SPACE OUT HARD IN ROSWELL

ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, is a fine city that boasts a small museum, a picturesque state park, a gorgeous wildlife refuge, and all kinds of shopping. Not that it mattered to the 15,000 or so people who visited last weekend. All they cared about were aliens.

It's been that way since 1947, when a rancher named William Brazel stumbled upon some strange debris in the desert 30 miles north of town. The US Army Air Force declared it the wreckage of a flying saucer, but upon closer inspection said, no, wait, it's a weather balloon.

Too late. The legend was born. For 70 years now, people have believed ET landed in this corner of southeastern New Mexico. That's prompted no end of conspiracy theories and outlandish stories, not to mention a thriving business in UFO-themed gift shops, museums, and restaurants.

And, of course, the four-day UFO festival. True believers came from as far away as Vermont for last weekend's 22nd annual extraterrestrial extravaganza, and WIRED sent Angie Smith to take it all in. “Everywhere you looked you saw neon green,” she says.

Alien aficionados roamed Main Street, gobbling delectable desserts called Martian turds, buying kitschy alien eggs and other mementoes, and generally getting more than a little out there. A woman decked out in glittery blue paint with pipe cleaner "antennae" in her hair told Smith she attended the festival to “lift everyone’s vibrations.”

The truly inquisitive listened to experts hold forth during panels addressing topics like “Are Aliens Demons? Evidences That Suggest ‘Yes’” and "Why Defending UFOs with the Bible is a Bad Idea.” Afterward they lined up for pictures with UFOlogists like Travis Walton, who claims he spent five days with aliens in 1975, an experience that inspired the 1993 film Fire in the Sky (call him weird, but more than half of all Americans believe in aliens).

You don't have to believe in aliens to appreciate the playful, bizarre spirit of the event captured in Smith’s photos. “It’s fun and fascinating," she says, "whether or not you believe in it." Should aliens ever truly land in Roswell, they'll have a lot to live up to.

Tourists snap a selfie in front os a UFO sculpture just outside Roswell, New Mexico  

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An attendee poses for a portret with Travis Walton, who claims to be abducted bybAliens in 1975. 

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5 Intriguing Documentaries about Aliens

James Fox is back, and this time he brought an army (or air force). The maker of Out of the Blue, who incorporated some of that documentary into this one, organized a 2007 forum at the National Press Club, bringing in government and military officials from several countries to offer personal testimony supporting the theory of alien life and high-level coverups. Their accounts, which form the bulk of this film, are left to stand on their own merits—or, more accurately, on the merits of the speakers’ credibility. That said, some are pretty far out, but they’re worth a listen for entertainment value alone. —Allison Gorman

4. The Day Before Disclosure (2010)

The Day Before Disclosure puts forth the idea that decades of flying saucer sightings by pilots, military personnel and ordinary citizens, plus supposed evidence of alien life on Earth going back thousands of years or more, are finally coming to a head. Through video footage of UFOs and interviews with eyewitnesses, including some who claim to have been abducted by aliens, Norwegian filmmaker Terje Toftenes asserts that the U.S. and other governments have been suppressing what they know about extraterrestrials—but with much of that information now publically available, their secret won’t be safe for long. —Allison Gorman

5. Mirage Men (2013)

A British documentary based on Mark Pilkington’s book by the same name, Mirage Men takes the standard conspiracy theory about extraterrestrials and doubles it back on itself. Rather than asserting that the government has been trying to cover up evidence of alien life, it sets out to prove that the U.S. Air force and intelligence services have been pushing ET/UFO mythology—“weapons of mass deception”—to make believers look crazy, and to deflect attention from its own high-tech doings. Maybe it’s all hooey, but in our new world of alternative facts, this four-year-old film suddenly seems rather timely. —Allison Gorman

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5 Movie Aliens That Probably Inspired Prey's Monsters

Prey and the Pantheon of Sci-Fi Monsters

The "Niagara Falls Of Mars" Were Made Of Lava Not Water

Those long streaks are actually "frozen waterfalls of lava streaming into a crater.

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Hawaii’s Kilauea is the most active volcano in the world. Erupting continuously since 1983, it has created a cornucopia of beautiful alien features, from overflowing lava lakes and waterfalls to anastomosing rivers of lava at the surface and the dragon-like lava tubes snaking through the ground beneath them.

Once upon a time, Mars was a lot like Kilauea – a volcanic landscape with a grand mosaic of strange hellish features. Now, thanks to a new series of NASA images, scientists think that they’ve spotted some ancient lava waterfalls draped across the surface of the Red Planet.

Unlike Kilauea, Mars is no longer volcanically active, so these waterfalls aren’t fresh ones. Rather, they’re frozen monuments to an age of fire long past – and they’re huge.

Snapped by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), these lava drapes are spread out across the rims of a volcanic crater 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) across. So how did they form?

This crater, found in the once highly active Tharsis region, initially looks like it could have contained a lava lake similar to the one at the heart of Kilauea: a bubbling mass of molten rock that is continually churning, listing, rising, and falling.

When the hotspot beneath lava lakes manages to melt more of the upper crust than usual, the lava lake sometimes rises up to such a height that it overflows and cascades down the crater rim. This can be seen on a semi-regular basis on Hawaii, and perhaps the same phenomenon happened on Mars.

However, in this case, the lava is doing something weird. It’s actually coming from outside the crater and surrounding it. At some point, the lava flow was so extensive that it ran up the crater slopes and cascaded down into it.

As the lava breached the crater rim, it encountered a series of rocky “steps” created by previous periodic eruptive episodes. This meant that the lava flow you can see here essentially moved down a volcanic staircase, a bit like pouring fresh glaze over a multi-tiered cake. Its extent has earned this aesthetically pleasing feature a new moniker by NASA – the “Niagara Falls of Mars”.

Although active for billions of years, the heat sources at the heart of Mars – its primordial heat left over from its formation and the heat released by radioactive elements – were extinguished, and these huge lava flows were no more. It’s a shame, really, because Mars once had some seriously cool volcanoes.

Its lack of plate tectonics meant that its gigantic hotspots produced the most massive volcanoes in the Solar System, and there was once an eruption so extensive that it caused the planet to tip over on its axis by 20°.

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Strange 'dome' and 'pyramid' spotted on Mars, say alien hunters

The 'dome' and 'pyramid' features on the surface of Mars (Google Earth/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, G. Neukum)

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Have alien-hunters discovered an ancient pyramid on Mars? Anomalies spotted on red planet

A YouTube user known as ArtAlienTV posted a video online showing what he called "anomalies" on NASA satellite images of the surface of the planet.

BY RACHEL O'DONOGHUE

Alien-hunters claim they have found what appears to be a pyramid and bizarre dome structure on Mars.

A YouTube user known as ArtAlienTV posted a video online showing what he called "anomalies" on NASA satellite images of the surface of the planet.

Explaining the dome, the conspiracist claims they look "artificial" and says he has not enhanced the images in an way.

"We have a clear 50 foot dome or sphere in a Mars Crater with large pipes coming out of it on the left. Also, a triangular pyramid shaped structure about 500 feet away from it that is 120 ft wide," he wrote.

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According to ArtAlienTV, the find was made by fellow alien-hunter William Benton.

He added: "These features look artificial in nature and are clearly visible on Google Mars with no enhancements.

"The structures are between the Mawrth Vallis region and Oyama Crater in an area that was short listed for a Mars Rover to explore for possible signs of life before Gale Crater was eventually chosen.

"It is not hard to find."

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But claims by so-called "truth-seekers" searching for evidence of extraterrestrials on Mars is nothing new.

In March, netizens scouring pictures from NASA's Curiosity rover uncovered what they claimed were "alien bones".

The rover is currently exploring the rocky surface of the distant planet and makes all its images free to view in the public domain.

A pair of shots caught the interest of the alien-hunting community after appearing to show decaying bones lying in Mars' red dust.

Although NASA has growing ambitions to visit the red planet in the near future, it is certain there is no longer any intelligent life left on the planet.

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RED ALERT! High-speed alien fugitives are invading our Milky Way

Turbo-charged solar runaways escape home galaxies, scream through our cosmic backwater

By Katyanna Quach 

Artist's impression of runaway stars

(Image credit: Amanda Smith, Institute of Astronomy)

Rare hypervelocity stars tearing through the Milky Way galaxy are runaway suns that have escaped neighbouring galaxies, according to research presented at this year’s National Astronomy Meeting in Hull, England.

Hypervelocity stars are travelling between 300 and 700 kilometers (186 and 435 miles) per second faster than our galaxy’s escape velocity. Only 20 cases have been confirmed so far, most of them late B‑type stars that are larger than our sun.

There has been some debate around the origin of these breakaway stars. Scientists believed a portion of them might have been lobbed from the Milky Way’s central rotational center.

But a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in March makes the argument that all the hypervelocity stars are actually foreign objects. The research was presented at the National Astronomy Meeting in Hull on Wednesday.

The idea is that these ultra-fast stars were part of a binary system and escaped their original home – the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a neighbouring satellite galaxy. A supernova explosion made the orbit between both stars unstable, and the schism caused the smaller one to be booted far away like a ball in a slingshot.

A group of researchers from the University of Cambridge in the UK dug into data taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to build computer simulations of runaway stars escaping from the LMC to the Milky Way.

They started by modelling the stellar evolution of the birth and death of stars in the LMC over the past two billion years, and focused on every runaway star. The gravitational interactions between these stars were also simulated so that they could reproduce and track the trajectory of the stars. They predict that there are 10,000 runaway stars spread across the sky.

There should also be about a million runaway neutron stars or black holes, since some of the massive blue stars reach the end of their lives on their way out of the LMC. They should collapse to neutron stars or black holes that continue zipping through the Milky Way.

Only half of the simulated stars that escape the LMC are fast enough to escape the gravity of the Milky Way, making them hypervelocity stars. If the confirmed hypervelocity stars are runaways, it would also explain their position in the sky.

'Hypervelocity stars did not satisfy me'

“Earlier explanations for the origin of hypervelocity stars did not satisfy me,” said Douglas Boubert, lead author of the paper and a PhD student at Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy.

“The hypervelocity stars are mostly found in the Leo and Sextans constellations – we wondered why that is the case.”

The closer stars in a binary system are, the faster they orbit one another, and they’re more likely to reach speeds fast enough to become hypervelocity stars. Runaway stars starting out in the Milky Way are too slow to become hypervelocity stars because the blue B‑type stars can’t orbit close enough to their companion star in the binary system without merging, the researchers argue.

But fast-moving galaxies like the LMC could give rise to these swift stars. The LMC also has 10 per cent of the mass of the Milky Way, so the fastest runaways can easily escape the galaxy’s pull.

Like a bullet fired from a moving train, the speed of these escaping stars would be the velocity they were booted at plus the velocity of the LMC. This boost increases the likelihood that these stars become hypervelocity ones when they stream through the Milky Way.

“These stars have just jumped from an express train – no wonder they’re fast,” said Rob Izzard, co‑author of the paper and a Rutherford fellow at the Institute of Astronomy. “This also explains their position in the sky, because the fastest runaways are ejected along the orbit of the LMC towards the constellations of Leo and Sextans.”

“We’ll know soon enough whether we’re right,” said Boubert. “The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite will report data on billions of stars next year, and there should be a trail of hypervelocity stars across the sky between the Leo and Sextans constellations in the North and the LMC in the South.”

Another independent group of researchers are also hoping to study hypervelocity stars by trying to find more specimens through data with the help of artificial neural networks. ®

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Close Encounters: Why UFOs Are Having a Moment

A new biography on scientist Dr. J. Allen Hynek shows that we might be on the verge of another cluster of UFO sighting reports

A new biography on Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a scientist who became convinced that we truly could not identify some objects in our skies, opens up new questions about UFOs. Everett

By Annaliese Griffin

When the unassuming turn of phrase "unidentified flying object" was coined in the 1940s, it was intended to suggest that the objects in question were nothing more mysterious than a rogue weather balloon or an unfamiliar aircraft. UFOs have since become synonymous with aliens, from cartoon flying saucers, to abduction stories, to X-Files-style conspiracy theories – in the popular imagination their mystery has been solved, UFOs equal aliens, whether you're a true believer or not. This unshakable association came to be despite the diligent work Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a scientist who became convinced that we truly could not identify some objects in our skies, and kept pushing throughout his life for a scientific explanation, while keeping open every possibility, some of them way further out there than little green men.

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Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs, a new book by Mark O'Connell, serves as a biography for both the modern UFO phenomenon and for Hynek, an astronomer and professor at Northwestern University who died over 30 years ago, but whose ideas make him one of the most surprising scientific figures of the 20th century. The book reveals an academic committed to rigorous, methodical study, but whose deep intellectual curiosity also harbored a mystical side, intrigued by Rudolf Steiner's concept of "supersensible knowledge" and the idea of a universe composed of many dimensions. By the time of his death in 1986, he was much more interested in the idea that UFOs might be evidence of interdimensional overlap or proof of a Jungian collective conscience, than the comparatively quotidian concept that they are vehicles carrying visitors from faraway planets.

Hynek's struggle to properly inform the public through a dedication to the scientific method, while also embracing the very edges of what is possible strikes a chord today, in an era rife with deep mistrust of the government and of mainstream science. Conspiracy theories have moved from the fringe since we stopped agreeing on what constitutes a basic scientific fact, and there are more than a few big ones involving the coming alien takeover and of course, NASA, which sits at the intersection of science, government and outer space.

Just last week a NASA spokesperson told The Daily Beast, in all seriousness, that the agency does not have child slaves laboring on Mars, in response to an InfoWars segment claiming otherwise. The Disclosure movement believes that governments around the world have already been in contact with alien intelligence and have suppressed this information from the public, and no, Trump would not be tweeting about it because the President is kept out of the loop in this scenario, says O'Connell. This is deep state stuff. Even the ever-pragmatic Hillary Clinton vowed to release classified information on UFOs and aliens while being interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel last year during her campaign. The unknown and how we go about knowing it is very much on our minds as a culture.

Though he would be dismayed to see that the orthodoxy of personal belief in the face of scientific evidence to the contrary has persevered, even flourished in the 21st century, Hynek would certainly find our present appetite for conspiracy and for polarized debate familiar, from climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers to the Disclosure crowd. Over his long career he learned that "It's very, very easy to disappoint people by telling them the truth," O'Connell tells Rolling Stone. "Everyone wants to believe that the next case is the big one, the one that finally proves that these are spaceships from another world and unfortunately, up to now that's never been the case, but the hope just doesn't die."

Born a few days before Earth passed through the tail of Halley's Comet in 1910, Hynek died just a few months after traveling through the comet's wake again in 1986. He spent the interceding years as an astronomer who changed the field of celestial imaging by developing a high-altitude telescope and video telescope, founded the Corralitos Observatory in New Mexico, led a team that devised the first tracking system for satellites before there were any man-made objects in orbit, and reassured a nervous American public after the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957, which put him on the cover of Life magazine.

Hynek was also one of the first scientists to evaluate UFO sightings for the U.S. Air Force, working on a series of classified projects in the 1950s and 1960s. Though he started out a skeptic, he went on to found the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, landing a cameo in Steven Spielberg's 1977 hit, Close Encounters of the Third Kind after contacting the director when he learned that the film’s working title was drawn from his work.

Even more than 30 years after his death, Hynek remains a controversial figure in UFOlogy, mainly because of his refusal to choose a side. O'Connell, a screenwriter and UFO history expert who writes the blog High Strangeness, has already had some of Hynek's legacy rub off on his own reputation, which he takes as a sign that he is following in Hynek's footsteps as an unbiased, open-minded researcher, rather than writing for one camp or another.

"Just based on what little some people know about the book and the interviews I've been doing, I already have some UFO establishment figures accusing me of being a skeptic, which is really dirty word in UFO circles," he says. "The labeling has already begun."

Hynek proved to be a thorn in the government's side when it came to investigating UFO reports, refusing to dismiss the unexplainable as the product of mass hysteria or unreliable witness testimony. Indeed, a great number of the seminal 20th century sightings that convinced Hynek that UFOs were worth further study involved highly credible witnesses, including airline and military pilots, law enforcement officers and Delbert Newhouse, a navy photographer who caught such an object on film in the Utah desert in 1952. Hynek though, refused to say that the strangeness of UFOs and UFO sightings proved they were alien spacecraft, which made him unpopular on the other side of the debate as well. An intellectual independent, he ended up sandwiched between the government, which demanded mundane explanations for sometimes fantastic sightings, and a public convinced that aliens walked among them.

"The inability for ambiguity to exist is a powerful force in UFO research," O'Connell says. "You have to go one way or the other, there's no middle ground."

Throughout the heyday of UFO sightings, significant incidents, including reported contact with alien entities and their aircraft, frequently popped up in clusters, referred to as "flaps" by Hynek. Though the last flap occurred after Close Encounters of the Third Kind debuted in 1977, UFOs are having a moment right now, too. This year Spielberg’s film celebrates its 40th anniversary, and the 1947 sighting of "flying saucers" over the Cascade mountains in the Pacific Northwest by pilot Kevin Arnold, which is widely noted as the beginning of the modern UFO phenomenon, marks 70 years of celestial intrigue. The History Channel just picked up a scripted series about Project Blue Book, the UFO investigation project that Hynek led for the government in the 1950s and 60, with Robert Zemeckis as executive producer. And of course, there's the matter of NASA's secret slaves on Mars. Are we headed for a new flap?

O'Connell is not so sure. "You would think that this amazing advance in technology, in photo imaging would have delivered us with the perfect UFO photo by now," he says. "You would think that but it hasn't happened and it's hard to decide exactly why. You can definitely argue that there are more people watching the sky with cameras in hand than ever before in human history."

What he's most interested in, beyond seeing Martin Freeman cast as Hynek – though he was amused by the thought of David Duchovny donning the professor's signature goatee – is an embrace of Hynek's balance of rigor and open-minded curiosity. Like Hynek himself, O'Connell wants to reposition the conversation about UFOs, as well as an agreement to adhere to the scientific method itself, back into the mainstream and plumb what might be possible, rather than single-mindedly trying to prove, or disprove the existence of aliens.

He finds some of Hynek's heady combination of scientific rigor and mysticism in the work of quantum physics and astronomers who are working on exoplanets right now. "Both of those fields involve, in my opinion, leaps of faith, leaps of intuition," he says. "We've shifted very dramatically from this idea that life on other planets must be exceedingly rare to this space where now where we're talking in terms of life in the universe being unbelievably abundant because we keep on finding all these goldilocks planets with our high powered space telescopes. Those are the two areas where I see that same kind of thinking that same kind of approach to science coming back to the way that Hynek saw things."

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Mars is een giftige bal

Een visualisatie van de donkere pekel op Mars. Zowel die pekel, maar ook de ‘gewone’ bodem, bevatten perchloraten die heel erg giftig kunnen zijn.  Foto: REUTERS

Bacteriën maken geen schijn van kans aan de oppervlakte van de planeet Mars, zo bevestigen experimenten.

Toen ruimtevaartorganisatie Nasa twee jaar geleden met veel bombarie aankondigde dat er water gevonden was op Mars, steeg meteen ook de hoop om leven te vinden op de rode planeet. Maar dat water, gevonden in de vorm van vloeibare pekel en zichtbaar als bruine strepen, is net de meest onbewoonbare omgeving aan het Mars-oppervlak. Dat blijkt uit experimenten die deze week gepubliceerd zijn in het vakblad Scientific Reports.

De pekel bestaat namelijk in grote mate uit natriumperchloraat en magnesiumperchloraat, zouten die uitermate dodelijk zijn voor bacteriën. Niet op zich, integendeel. Van perchloraten wordt gedacht dat ze een energiebron kunnen zijn voor groeiende bacteriën. Maar het is in combinatie met UV-straling dat de perchloraten omgezet worden in uiterst reactieve oxidanten. Dat konden wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Edinburgh achterhalen door de bacterie Bacillus subtilis bloot te stellen aan zowel perchloraten als aan de dosis UV-straling die de bodem van Mars bereikt. Bacillus subtilis is een beweeglijke bacterie die op Aarde meestal in de grond voorkomt en vrij extreme omstandigheden kan verdragen. Het is ook een van de micro-organismen die vaak meereist met ruimtetuigen.

Giftige cocktail

De onderzoekers benaderden in hun laboratorium zo veel mogelijk de omstandigheden van Mars. De experimenten werden uitgevoerd bij een temperatuur die - afhankelijk van de plek en het moment van de dag - ook op Mars bereikt wordt. In bijkomende proeven voegde men stoffen toe die net als de perchloraten alomtegenwoordig zijn in de bodem van onze dichtste planeet. Wat bleek: in combinatie met ijzeroxiden en waterstofperoxide waren de perchloraten nóg dodelijker. Na 60 seconden bleef er bijna niets van de bacteriën over.

De studie lijkt slecht nieuws, maar is vooral oud nieuws. Dat de bodem van Mars een giftige cocktail vormt, werd al langer vermoed en is nu bevestigd. Bovendien moeten we nu wellicht niet vrezen dat we Mars ‘besmetten’ met micro-organismen van de Aarde, een bezorgdheid die vaker geuit wordt. Dat bacteriën ‘in hun blootje’ doodgaan op Mars, hoeft overigens niet te beletten dat er ooit mensen in ruimtepak rondwandelen. Het is zelfs niet uitgesloten dat er alsnog leven is op Mars: de perchloraten zijn giftig in combinatie met UV-straling, maar zoals gezegd niet zonder straling. Het kan dus best dat er dieper onder de grond wel martiaanse micro-organismen leven.

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Several recent developments have made it clear that space has become the latest front in whatever strange new Cold War is brewing. Just this week, it seems that the war might have gone from ‘cold’ to ‘shooting’ with the news that several satellite-tracking agencies have spotted a European-contolled communications satellite breaking apart in space. The satellite’s operator? A private agency which provides satellite services for the U.S. Armed Forces, NASA, and NATO, among others.

The story began on June 17th when the Luxembourg-based satellite firm SES S.A. lost control of its AMC-9 satellite which reportedly provides data and broadcast services over the U.S. and Mexico. Shortly after, operators watched helplessly as the satellite began to drift and then break apart.

It’s currently unknown what might have happened to the satellite. Leading theories include a collision with debris or a malfunction, although the possibility remains that the satellite could have been attacked by the new weaponized satellites many world superpowers have been putting into orbit recently. Doug Hendrix, CEO at aerospace technology firm ExoAnalytic Solutions, told ArsTechnica that his company watched the AMC-9 satellite break apart, but even they aren’t sure what the cause was:

We have seen several pieces come off of it over the past several days. We are tracking at least one of the pieces. I would hesitate to say we know for sure what happened.

There are concerns now that debris from the satellite might damage others in the same orbit, which is heavily populated with communications satellites. It’s been known for years that satellites will become both the next weapons and the next targets in the wars of the future; disrupting an entire geostationary orbit with debris would be a perfect way to distract one’s adversaries.

Noting that a war might be brewing in space isn’t purely conjecture; the U.S. Armed Forces have made several recent announcements regarding the creation of new space weaponsand space-oriented leadership posts in what has been described as a pivot to the upcoming battlefield that is space. Couple that with the news that Russia is waking up its mysterious “killer satellites,” launching unidentified new satellites from secret Arctic bases, and that U.S. intelligence agencies are launching their own mysterious satellites which have been displaying some rather strange behavior lately, and it seems as if a shadowy space conflict might already be underway.

Where’s 007 when you need him? Oh…yeah…

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During the course of last week’s 70th anniversary festivities in Roswell, New Mexico – specifically following my lecture on the legendary crash of July 1947 – the subject of the controversial “Ramey Memo” surfaced. For those who don’t know, the memo is one of the most intriguing pieces of Roswell-based documentation in existence. In fact, it’s one of the very few, real documents pertaining to Roswell (forget about all that MJ12 documentation). It’s a single piece of paper and can be seen in a black-and-white photograph taken of Brigadier General Roger Ramey. In 1947, he was the head of the 8th Army Air Force, which operated out of Fort Worth, Texas. Ramey is a key part of the story, as he is holding the memo in question in his left hand; a memo which says something about Roswell. But, what? That’s the issue UFO researchers are unable to agree upon. What we know for sure is that the photo was taken at Fort Worth on July 8, 1947 by a man named J. Bond Johnson. At the time, he worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper. The controversy over what the memo shows began years ago, but it gained far more momentum in the 2015-2016 period.

Yes, the memo can certainly be seen in the photo, with the text pointing outwards, albeit in slightly folded fashion. A number of attempts have been made to decipher the memo. The first real attempt of any major significance was undertaken on behalf of the U.S. Air Force. In their massive 1994 report on the Roswell affair, the USAF stated that it sent the photo-collection to what was only referred to as a “national-level organization for digitizing and subsequent photo interpretation and analysis.” The results, however, were disappointing, as that same unnamed organization informed the Air Force, on July 20, 1994, that even after careful digitizing, “the photos were of insufficient quality to visualize either of the details sought for analysis.” It’s interesting to note that, to this day, the Air Force refuses to identify the aforementioned “national-level organization.” On top of that, the Air Force states that the relevant documentation generated by the organization cannot now be found.

With the turning of a new century, Ufology undertook its very own attempts to solve the mystery of the Ramey Memo and what, exactly, it says. One of those was UFO investigator David Rudiak, who has a particular interest in deciphering the memo, and whose research into its contents continues to this day. Rudiak says of his work in this particular arena: “There is very little doubt that the memo includes the words ‘in the ‘disc’ they will ship.'” Far more controversially, Rudiak concludes from his analysis that the words “operation at the ranch” and “the victims of the wreck” can also be seen.

Of the memo itself, Kevin Randle said in 2015: “The only point of dispute is what the memo actually says. Parts of it are easily read and others are obscured to the point where it is sometimes just a best guess. If the memo could be completely deciphered it might provide a clue about what fell near Roswell and would be some of the best documentation available.” Randle also noted in 2015: “While ‘Victims of the wreck’ might not take us immediately to the extraterrestrial, it would certainly start us on the path.”

Then, in 2016, there was this from Kevin: “Several have suggested that the word is not ‘victims’ but is ‘viewing.’ It does contain the right number of letters and it does begin with a ‘V,’ but it also alters the importance of the Ramey Memo if that is correct.”

There is no doubt that the Ramey Memo is extremely thought-provoking, specifically in terms of what it might say, and in relation to the events which occurred in 1947-era New Mexico. A careful study of the text does suggest that the word “victims” could actually be the correct one. As Kevin Randle notes, however, “viewing” is an equally good candidate, too. The latter makes sense, considering the fact that the debris was on show for J. Bond Johnson to photograph. And for Johnson to view. Kevin is also right on target when he states that if the real word is “viewing,” then it most definitely lessens the importance that is generated by the word “victims.” After all, if there were victims, then the object which came down was clearly neither a weather-balloon nor a Mogul balloon. And no-one of a sane mind would ever describe a crash-test dummy as a victim.

There is, however, an issue that seldom gets discussed when it comes to the matter of the Ramey Memo. The full-on “Roswell was E.T.” believer would most likely say that a reference to “victims” is the smoking-gun we have sought for so long; a smoking-gun which makes a reference to the aliens found on-board the wrecked UFO, or somewhere else on the huge Foster Ranch. But, does it, really? Well, it certainly could; but I suggest not. And I will tell you exactly why.

I find the use of that specific word – “victims” – to be both odd and potentially revealing. I would have thought that terms like “the crew,” “the pilots,” “the spacemen,” or “the beings” would have been far more appropriate when it came to describing strange-looking entities that arrived from another world with no warning. “Victims” suggests something else. In fact, I would go so far to say that just the word “victims” itself has an undeniable human, even emotion-filled, quality attached to it, rather than something we might apply to a definitively unearthly alien.

Let’s take a look at the definitions for “victim” that Merriam-Webster provides. They include: (A)“one that is acted on and usually adversely affected by a force or agent;” (B) “one that is injured, destroyed, or sacrificed under any of various conditions;” (C) “one that is subjected to oppression, hardship, or mistreatment;” and (D) “one that is tricked or duped.”

If the “human experiment” angle for Roswell is the correct one – as I believe it to be – then the terminology used by Merriam-Webster to define a “victim” is most apt. Finally, but still on the matter of that controversial sentence in the Ramey Memo, there is the issue of the word “wreck.” It seems very strange that such a word would have been used to describe what the military was assuring the media was just a flimsy weather-balloon. It’s equally odd terminology to use for a Mogul balloon – the theory the Air Force came up with in 1994. “Wreck” implies something pretty physically substantial that has been significantly damaged, rather than the torn and scattered remains of a balloon, whether large or small. So, while the Ramey Memo is not the ultimate smoking-gun that proves any particular theory, there’s no doubt that it keeps the Roswell flame burning, whatever the answer.

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STRONGEST EARTHQUAKE IN DECADES ROCKS YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

An earthquake with magnitude 5.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Lincoln in Montana.

The M5.8 earthquake is the largest earthquake in years hitting the region of Yellowstone National Park in Montana. It was felt in Oregon and Washington state.

The strong M5.8 earthquake was followed by two moderate quakes of M4.5 and M3.9 

If the preliminary magnitude holds, it will be the strongest earthquake to hit Montana since June 1975, when a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Yellowstone National Park. A 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Idaho in 1983 was also felt in Montana.

HERE A FEW REPORTS ABOUT THE STRONG SHAKING:

• Seeley Lake, Montana / MMI V (Moderate shaking): House shaking, fixtures moving,heard structure making cracking noise,pet bird would not calm down in her cage. Mild Aftershock.
• Whitefish (217.9 km NNW from epicenter) [Map] / MMI V (Moderate shaking): Lasting about a minute.
• Missoula, Mt / MMI IV (Light shaking): Thought my buddy was shaking the bed, light rumble then a few good jolts, nothing compared to the nisqually quake but enough to grab your attention.
• Placerville Idaho / MMI IV (Light shaking): Shook bed. Moved bed enough to disconnect a plug-in. Outside deck moved and creaked. Felt slight aftershocks. Stevensville / MMI V (Moderate shaking): Strong rolling shake with strong afterquake shortly after ( via strangesounds.org ).  

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WHAT IS OUT THERE? NASA probe to fly over Jupiter's mysterious 'red spot' for first time

NASA is to undertake the closest ever investigation of the mysterious "red spot" on Jupiter within days.

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The Juno space probe is set to orbit a 10,000 mile-wide storm on Jupiter on July 10, after a year of circling the gas planet.

A NASA spokesman said: "This will be humanity's first up-close and personal view of the gigantic feature - a storm monitored since 1830 and possibly existing for more than 350 years." 

Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said: "Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is probably the best-known feature of Jupiter.

"This monumental storm has raged on the solar system's biggest planet for centuries. 

"Now, Juno and her cloud-penetrating science instruments will dive in to see how deep the roots of this storm go, and help us understand how this giant storm works and what makes it so special."

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The data collection of the Great Red Spot is part of Juno's sixth science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops. 

Perijove, the point at which an orbit comes closest to Jupiter's centre, will be on Monday, July 11, at 2:55am (BST). 

At the time of perijove, Juno will be about 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometres) above the planet's cloud tops. 

Eleven minutes and 33 seconds later, Juno will have covered another 24,713 miles (39,771 kilometres) and will be directly above the coiling crimson cloud tops of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. 

The spacecraft will pass about 5,600 miles (9,000 kilometres) above the Giant Red Spot clouds. All eight of the spacecraft's instruments as well as its imager, JunoCam, will be on during the flyby.

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Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is probably the best-known feature of Jupiter. This monumental storm has raged on the solar system's biggest planet for centuries.

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The spacecraft has chalked up about 71 million miles (114.5 million kilometres) in orbit around the giant planet in 12 months.

Rick Nybakken, project manager for Juno from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said: "The success of science collection at Jupiter is a testament to the dedication, creativity and technical abilities of the NASA-Juno team.

"Each new orbit brings us closer to the heart of Jupiter's radiation belt, but so far the spacecraft has weathered the storm of electrons surrounding Jupiter better than we could have ever imagined."

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Juno launched on August 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 

During its mission of exploration, Juno soars low over the planet's cloud tops - as close as about 2,100 miles (3,400 kilometres). 

During these flybys, Juno is probing beneath the obscuring cloud cover of Jupiter and studying its auroras to learn more about the planet's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

Early science results from NASA's Juno mission portray the largest planet in our solar system as a turbulent world, with an intriguingly complex interior structure, energetic polar aurora, and huge polar cyclones.  

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REVEALED: EU law blocks Britons 'from the TRUTH about UFO sightings' across UK skies

BRITONS have been left in the dark about a number of UFO sightings in UK skies because of European Union legislation, it has been reported.

It will be the first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defence.

IF YOU’RE the sort who lies awake at night in a cold sweat, holding your breath, worrying that an asteroid is going to hit the Earth and wipe out the world as you know it, your worries could soon be over.

Soon, as in 10 years or so.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, the American half of the international Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) Mission, has advanced to the preliminary design phase.

If all goes according to plan, it will blast off from Earth in 2024.

Its mission: to redirect a nonthreatening asteroid.

Its goal: to prove it can be done when and if a large one actually threatens to hit us. Move aside, Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck. This could actually work.

If all goes according to plan, DART will crash into a small asteroid called Didymos B at the speed of 6 kilometres per second, about nine times faster than a bullet. Then scientists on Earth will monitor whether and how the collision alters Didymos B’s orbit around its larger twin, Didymos A.

Scientists chose Didymos B because, at roughly 152 metres in diameter, it is typical of an asteroid that could pose a common hazard to Earth.

Move it, and you don’t have to move the world.

“DART is a critical step in demonstrating we can protect our planet from a future asteroid impact,” said Andy Cheng, who is co-leading the DART investigation at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), which will build the refrigerator-sized spacecraft.

“Since we don’t know that much about their internal structure or composition, we need to perform this experiment on a real asteroid. With DART, we can show how to protect Earth from an asteroid strike with a kinetic impactor by knocking the hazardous object into a different flight path that would not threaten the planet.”

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Filer’s Files #27 -2017 Wars in Heaven and Earth - PART II

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BEWIJS DAT RUIMTEOORLOG IN VOLLE GANG IS ( VIDEO )

We zijn gewend dat er eigenlijk permanent oorlogen woeden op aarde, maar dat dit ook in de ruimte gebeurt, is iets dat bijna niemand weet. 

Nu is er bewijs boven water gekomen dat een satelliet in de ruimte door een aantal onbekende vliegende objecten is aangevallen en onklaar is gemaakt. 

Het lijkt een beetje op een sciencefictionverhaal, maar dat is het absoluut niet. 

Zoals bekend bij de meesten gaat veel van de tegenwoordige communicatie, inclusief televisiebeelden, via satellieten die zich hoog boven de aarde bevinden. 

Nu bestaan er verschillende soorten. Je hebt satellieten die zich in een omloopbaan rondom de aarde bevinden en die die op een soort vaste positie blijven. Dit noemen ze een "geo-stationary" satelliet. Dit soort wordt meestal gebruikt voor dingen zoals televisie-uitzendingen omdat wanneer de satelliet zich in een baan om de aarde zou bevinden het signaal op een gegeven moment urenlang zou verdwijnen, wanneer het zich aan de achterkant van de aarde zou bevinden. 

De AMC-9 is een dergelijke "geo-stationary" satelliet en verzorgt televisie-uitzendingen voor Noord- Midden- en Zuid Amerika. 

Het is al een oud beestje en is eigendom van een bedrijf dat SES heet. Deze satelliet verblijft al sinds 2003 in de ruimteop een hoogte van 36.000 kilometer en sinds 17 juni is er een serieus probleem mee. 

Op die datum verloor SES contact met de satelliet als gevolg van “onregelmatigheden” die zich voordeden op die dag. 

De satelliet leek in stukken op te breken en er vlogen naderhand ook enkele brokstukken door de ruimte. 

De eigenaar van de satelliet, SES, heeft ondertussen een verklaring gegeven waar onder andere in staat dat de SES Satellite Control er op 1 juli in is geslaagd om weer contact te maken met de AMC-9 en dat men weer probeert deze onder controle te krijgen. 

Op 20 juni maakte SES bekend dat er gedurende het weekend problemen waren geweest met AMC-9 vanwege een “behoorlijke onregelmatigheid” en dat activiteiten zouden worden overgeheveld naar andere satellieten. 

Omdat de satelliet ook uit haar normale baan/positie was verschoven, kwam men met de suggestie dat dit alleen gekomen kon zijn door een “energetische” gebeurtenis. 

We hebben dus een satelliet die uit koers is geraakt, waar in de buurt enkele brokstukken zweven en die niet meer goed functioneert. 

Dan zijn er radarbeelden waarop iets heel bijzonders te zien is. Want op een gegeven moment is niet alleen de satelliet zichtbaar, maar ook dat deze als het ware wordt ingehaald door een drietal vreemde objecten, op enige afstand gevolgd door een vierde. 

Op het moment dat deze objecten op ongeveer gelijke hoogte zijn met de AMC-9 begint deze te flitsen alsof er iets mee gebeurt. 

Nadat de onbekende objecten zijn gepasseerd, zie je de brokstukken van de AMC-9 af komen en ook dat de satelliet uit koers raakt. 

Met andere woorden, wie of wat die objecten ook zijn, het lijkt er sterk op dat ze deze de AMC-9 satelliet uitschakelen. Hebben we hier een voorbeeld van een ruimteoorlog die boven ons hoofden woedt? 

 

Onbekend is wie of wat die objecten zijn en of ze van aardse makelij zijn of juist buitenaards. Ook is de reden onbekend waarom deze satelliet uitgeschakeld lijkt te worden. 

Onze lezer Bert denkt er het volgende van:

Persoonlijk denk ik dat het een aardse vloot is, als het aliens zijn dan zie je ze volgens mij niet eens. Als wij al laserstraal technologie hebben dan kun je wel nagaan wat die aliens kunnen doen.WW3 is gewoon in de ruimte begonnen. Voordat het echt los gaat zullen we waarschijnlijk een totale black out mee maken. Zodra internet, radio en tv er uit gaat kun je dekking zoeken. Men schakelt gewoon eerst de cruciale satellieten uit.

Dat wij mensen in staat zijn om dit soort dingen te doen, hebben wij aangetoond in eerdere artikelen.

Zowel bij de begrafenis in Kabul, waar een UFO langsvliegt en vervolgens een enorme explosie veroorzaakt en ook bij 9/11 waar heel duidelijk net voor de explosie in de tweede toren van het WTC een UFO voorbij schiet. Daarnaast schrijven wij al jaren over het bestaan van een geheime ruimtevloot waarvan het grote publiek geen flauw benul heeft dat deze bestaat.

Als we er dan vanuit gaan dat we hier te maken hebben met een aardse aanval, dan is natuurlijk de volgende vraag: Wie zit hierachter en wie zou hier voordeel bij hebben?

De satelliet is eigendom van het in Luxemburg gevestigde bedrijf SES S.A, met ook branches in Den Haag.

SES S.A. is een beursgenoteerd bedrijf in Luxemburg en aan de Euronext in Parijs als SESG. SES staat voor Société Européenne des Satellites en werd opgericht in maart 1985. Op 9 november 2001 is SES Global S.A. ontstaan na de overname van GE Americom. Hierdoor is het nu wereldwijd de grootste commerciële satelliet exploitant. Het concern biedt diensten aan op het gebied van verspreiding van televisiezenders, radiostations, data-overdracht, telefonie en toegang tot internet via diverse satellieten. SES S.A. is de overkoepelende organisatie van SES Astra in Europa; SES Americom in de Verenigde Staten; en New Skies Satellites in Afrika, Zuid-Amerika, het Midden-Oosten en een deel van Azië. Ook bezit het concern aandelen in Ciel (70%) in Canada en Quetzsat (49%) in Mexico. SES S.A., eerder SES Global, beheert wereldwijd een park van 47 satellieten.

Wat in dit verhaal ook van belang kan zijn, in het licht van het "waarom", is de UFO aanval op de Space X raket van ondernemer Elon Musk. Deze is van plan om een kolonie op Mars te gaan beginnen en rijdt op deze manier duidelijk de elite in de weg die Mars waarschijnlijk hebben voorbestemd als een eigen ontsnappingsmogelijkheid voor wanneer hen hier op aarde de grond te heet onder de voeten wordt.

Een andere mogelijkheid zou kunnen zijn dat we hier te maken hebben met militaire oorlogsvoering en/of demonstratie/oefening. Dit is waar het het meeste op lijkt.

Eerder dit jaar verscheen er een bericht dat de Amerikanen nogal waren geschrokken van een nieuwe testvlucht van een nieuwe Russische anti satellietraket, de PL-19 Nudol. De Amerikaanse legerleiding liet toen doorschemeren dat hun eigen defensiemogelijkheden voor wat betreft satellieten niet vergelijkbaar waren met de Russische. Omdat de Amerikanen eigenlijk van oudsher domineerden in de ruimte hebben ze het up to date houden verwaarloosd en kampen ze nu met verouderde middelen terwijl andere inmiddels high tech (bewapende) apparatuur hebben rondcirkelen om de aarde. Het Pentagon en de Amerikaanse luchtmacht zijn dan ook in sneltreinvaart begonnen met het verbeteren van hun ruimtedefensie.

We weten dat satellieten uitgerust kunnen worden met kernwapens. Dit kwam vooral in beeld als een mogelijkheid voor Noord Korea om bijvoorbeeld Amerika te bereiken met haar kernwapens omdat zij ook een aantal satellieten in de ruimte hebben.

Toen de AMC-9 satelliet in 2003 werd gelanceerd, gebeurde dit met een Russische raket vanuit Kazachstan. Degene die vooral nadeel ondervinden van het neerschieten lijken televisiemaatschappijen in Amerika, maar waaronder ook NASA,  die gebruikmaken van deze satelliet. Of deze informatie volledig is, is niet duidelijk. Er zijn ook indicaties dat AMC-9 bewapend was met nucleaire wapens.

Je zou dan ook kunnen voorstellen dat een Vladimir Poetin aan de vooravond van de G-20 in Duitsland waar hij voor het eerst Donald Trump zal ontmoeten, even zijn visitekaartje wil achterlaten door te laten zien waartoe de geheime Russische ruimtevloot toe in staat is.

Het lijkt qua timing echter op iets anders. Op 30 juni jl herinstalleerde Trump de National Space Council. Bovendien liep de satelliet AMC-9 tegen het einde van de geplande contracts/werkingsduur van 15 jaar en hebben de televisiestations al enige tijd geleden hun uitzendingen over andere satellieten verdeeld en leken ze dus op de hoogte van het naderende einde van deze satelliet. Ook is plekje in de ruimte voor satellieten schaars en duur. en aangezien deze tegen zijn einde liep, was het mogelijk een mooie oefening om hem neer te schieten en gelijk ook capaciteiten te showen. Er wordt openlijk gesproken over ruimteoorlogen en het bewapenen in de ruimte. 

Bovendien heeft de de luchtmacht sinds enige tijd de verantwoordelijkheid over het budget voor ruimteverdediging/-wapens. Dat is niets anders dan het militair industrieel complex die achter veel narigheid op aarde zitten. De Amerikaanse president heeft heel weinig vat op deze ruimteactiviteiten.

The Air Force and Pentagon are pursuing a strategy aimed at countering the fast-emerging weaponization of space and preparing to defend against space-war anti-satellite attacks, service officials said.

“The last Defense Authorization Act gave authority back to the Air Force for buying space hardware and services. We need to fully implement those changes in order to get space capabilities we need on faster timelines,” Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told the Senate Armed Services Committee Strategic Forces Subcommittee May 17.

Disaggregation and diversity are among the most heavily focused-upon techniques which seek to deploy multiple satellites carrying both conventional and nuclear systems; diversity tactics are aimed at using multiple satellites to achieve the same goal.

Commercie speelt in deze sector natuurlijk een zeer grote rol en gebeurtenissen rond het neerschieten van zo'n satelliet kunnen een aanwijzing zijn van de werkelijke achtergronden. Toevalligerwijze is Boeing in de run voor satellietbouwer voor de Amerikaanse overheid. Om daarmee Alcatel uit het veld te duwen. Er is nu behoefte aan een nieuwe satelliet doordat er AMC-9 vernietigd is. En het zou ons niets verbazen als Boeing die gaat bouwen. En er zijn meer partijen die graag meedoen en er wordt dus ook veel geruzied in de markt waardoor (gelukkig) regelmatig informatie naar buiten komt die een kijkje naar binnen verschaft.

Wat duidelijk is, is dat er in de buurt van de neergeschoten satelliet, die hier live te volgen is, intelligent bestuurde objecten aanwezig waren die in de mainstream berichtgeving volledig worden genegeerd. Dat de satelliet tegen alle (natuur)wetten in van koers verandert, wat inhoud dat deze uit zijn positie moet zijn geforceerd. De satelliet breekt in stukken nadat het felle lichtflitsen toonde op de radar precies ten tijde van de passage van deze eerst 3 en daarna 4 onbekende objecten. Dat in tegenstelling tot de officiële berichtgeving overduidelijk is dat er veel meer speelt, getuige alle contextuele activiteiten zoals hierboven uiteengezet. Het gezicht van voormalig astronaut Aldrin spreekt boekdelen over wat Trump allemaal zegt over hun ruimteactiviteiten. Recentelijk werd deze Aldrin met spoed van Antarctica weggehaald.

Wat ons betreft staat vast dat het ding is neergeschoten en waarschijnlijk door aardlingen met ruimtewapens. 

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Mind blowing UFO filmed over South Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

A very odd unidentified flying object is seen flying over South Vancouver Island, BC, Canada on June 27, 2017.

Credit image: Ian Purcell - YouTube.

Ian Purcell who filmed the mind blowing object managed to capture very clear and very close up images of the UFO which you can see in the below 9.50 minutes video at around 33 and 55 seconds for a really clear still shot of the back and at 50 seconds for a clear shot of the front.

Editor’s note: At first glance I though it is a drone however after a quick search on the web I could not find similar objects.

So, any idea what this robotic-like object, what seems to be under intelligent control, could be?

  

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MOD FILES REVEAL UFO INCIDENT WITH COLD WAR SPY PLANE

The Ministry of Defence in Britain has released 15 files of out of the remaining UFO files that are held at the National Archives in the UK and in them are details about a UFO encounter that was witnessed by the whole crew in a spy-plane belonging to the US Air Force.

USAF RC-135 PLANE BUZZED BY UFO WITH MANY FLASHING LIGHTS

The secret RAF files have a detailed account of an incident that happened on October 19, 1982, and this was when a USAF RC-135 plane that had been watching the activity of the Soviet military was buzzed over the Eastern Mediterranean by what was described as a big object.

In the files, it was stated that British personnel who were stationed at the RAF Troodos, a remote base located on the island of Cyprus at Mt. Olympus, had listed to radio calls that had come from the crew from the USA while they encountered the UFO 35,000 feet above the level of the sea.  

Radome at 280 Signals Unit base, RAF Troodos, Mt Olympus, Cyprus – one of the most important overseas British installations (credit: Wikipedia/Ed Weissman)

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They had described the UFO as being covered with many flashing lights, with as many as 20 of them flashing at any one time and it had been picked up on the radar of the spy plane while it was approaching them from the south. It was then said to have gone in a circle around the plane with the call sign Beano 73 and then closed in on it while the navigator asked for help down on the ground.

NAVY FIGHTER JETS SCRAMBLED TO UFO INCIDENT

Two F-14 US Navy fighter jets were scrambled from their aircraft carrier along with an RAF Phantom, which had to be diverted from a nighttime exercise, to go and intercept the UFO, which was to the south of Cyprus. While the three interceptors were approaching the crew on the spy plane saw the UFO departing and making its way to the coast of Africa, but the fighter pilots did not see it.

The hidden files that have just been revealed show that the RAF personnel at the radar station monitored the whole incident and it lasted around 90 minutes, with it starting at about 4 pm local time. However, the British air defense stations did not see the incident and nor was it picked up by seaborne or ground radar.

After the UFO encounter, an investigation was launched in secret by the authorities in Britain and the results of it were sent along to the Department of Defense in the US in November 1982. Neither the US or British government ever gave any information about the incident, until the secret files were opened.

MOD AND USAF CLOSE DOWN UFO FILES 

An extract from the RAF file on the incident [David Clarke/The National Archives]

The Blue Book of the US Air Force UFO Project was officially closed in 1969, and in 2009 the British Ministry of Defence went on to close their own UFO desk. The secret space intelligence unit, DI55, then claimed that they were no longer interested in any unidentified aerial phenomena in 2000.

However, the RAF files that have been released now reveal that the officials did order a transcript to be made of the tape that recorded the capture of radio transmissions that had been made between the people on the ground in the control tower and the crew of the spy plane. Copies of the report were sent out to the Assistant Chief Scientist of the RAF, DD Ops, and GE of the RAF, DI55, and DSTI.

PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE WAS MISSING FROM FILES

The RAF Troodos radar station had provided film, and this had been studied very carefully by photographic experts in the UK along with large prints that had been taken from the radar picture had been prepared for scrutiny by intelligence officers. The file did not say where this evidence had gone. Also, the results of the investigation by the UK and USA were not in the file.

A tentative explanation for that was given by a senior member of the RAF who said that they had a suspicion that the UFO had been a mirage effect that came from the lights which were on the coast of Lebanon or Israel. However, a signal that had reported the sighting that had been sent from RAF Troodos to the Ministry of Defence in the UK had described the UFO as being bigger than an RC-135.

The Boeing RC-135 is an aircraft that was used by the RAF and USAF in support intelligence gathering. The airplanes have been used in all armed conflicts, and this included the Cold War around borders of the former Soviet Union. This is an aircraft that has a length of 136 feet and a wingspan of about 130 feet.

UFO TRACKED BEANO 73 FOR 90 MINUTES

The signal from the RAF that reported the encounter said that the UFO had first been seen around two miles from the RC-135 and then changed its position around the aircraft and closed. The object then tailed Beano 73 for around 90 minutes on the northeast/southwest race track. The signal went on to report that the UFO had been witnessed by the entire crew.

Three of the RC-135s had been bought in 2017 by the RAF, and they serve in the 51 Squadron which has a base at RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire. The crew of them includes a navigator, two pilots, and as many as 25 mission staff.

Also in the file, it was said that the RAF Group Captain had gathered together information about the UFO reports that had been received by his air defense staff over a period of 30 years and coming to an end in 1996. This was in response to a question in parliament from Martin Redmond, the Labour MP for Don Valley. He had asked radar stations, including the Ballistic Missile Early Warning Station, which is located on the North Yorkshire Moors at RAF Fylingdales to submit UFO data to the HQ No 11 Group. He said in his report that he could not find any reports or mentions of the UFOs that had been detected by the Air Defence Ground Environment units or the 11/18 Group aircraft using the radar equipment.

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Roswell SOLVED? Ex-USAF Major claimed UFO crash was 'cover story for a nuclear incident'

THE alleged Roswell UFO crash may have been a cover story from the United States Air Force (USAF) to take away the heat from a botched nuclear incident, it has been claimed.

Are they hiding something? The government is using EU laws to block requests to access its files on UFOs spotted in the sky, expert claims

• The Civil Aviation Authority annually receives numerous reports of UFOs
• The files it collects should be subject to Freedom of Information requests
• This law allow any member of the public to view files held by a public institution
• European legislation from 2014 is being used to block these requests

By Tim Collins For Mailonline

Sightings of UFOs are being hushed up by the government using EU laws, a leading expert has claimed.

The public has previously been granted access to records held by the state, detailing reports of strange sights seen in the sky by civilian aircrews.

They are now finding that this access has been revoked, with the agency responsible for maintaining the files citing European legislation to block requests.

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Sightings of UFOs are being hushed up by the government using EU laws, a leading expert has claimed. The Civil Aviation Authority reportedly receives numerous reports of unexplained sightings above Britain each year (stock image)

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) receives numerous reports of unexplained sightings above Britain each year, according to The Sun.

It was previously the responsibility of the MOD's UFO desk to collect this information, but since its closure in 2009 it has fallen to the CAA.

As a government agency, the files collected by the CAA should be subject to Freedom of Information requests.

These transparency laws can be used by any member of the public who wishes to view files held by public institutions. 

But the CAA has reportedly refused to release any information about UFO sightings, known as 'occurrences' in bureaucratic language, citing European legislation from 2014.

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline: 'This move falls into the hands of those of think there is an ongoing Government cover-up of UFO sightings and related evidence.

'"Occurrences" in this instance could relate to anything from meteor sightings, drones, foreign aircraft infringing our airspace or anything unusual that might fall into the UFO category.

'There is also the embarrassment factor where pilots are reluctant to report anything unusual, because if it is made public they might seem like cranks or unreliable. 

'This very thing is highlighted in the teaser trailer for the re-release of Steven Spielberg's classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind film, in which aircraft controllers and aircrew see a UFO but mutually agree not to report it.

Dr David Clarke, principle research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University's department of journalism, has previously accessed the CAA's files by using FOI requests.

He was refused permission to do so again earlier this year.

Speaking to The Sun, Dr Clarke said:  'The only conceivable reason for this change of policy is embarrassment on the part of the aviation industry.

As a government agency, the files collected by the CAA should be subject to Freedom of Information requests. But the CAA has reportedly refused to release any information about UFO sightings, citing European legislation from 2014 (stock image)

'It does not want to admit that its pilots do occasionally report things in the sky that are difficult to explain. 

'To improve public confidence in air safety, the authorities should be proactively promoting open access to records of this type.'  

The EU legislation is designed to protect pilots and other airline staff who report seeing unexplained aerial phenomena.

But identifying information about private individuals is already routinely redacted from data supplied in response to FOI requests. 

The European law states: 'Occurrence information can only be used for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety, and the release of occurrence information to the general public or the media, including in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, is not permitted.

'However, if you require occurrence information for the purpose of maintaining or improving aviation safety you are able to make an application to the CAA.' 

'BRITAIN'S X-FILES' REVEAL A UFO WAS SPOTTED FLOATING ABOVE SKEGNESS FOR SEVEN HOURS

A UFO was visible on military radar for seven hours above the Wash in Skegness in 1996 but officials were ordered to do nothing about it, according to a shocking document from 'Britain's X-Files'.

The RAF was 'overruled at the highest level' and told to ignore the strange bright lights - which flashed red, blue and white - despite the fact several witnesses also spotted it.

The Ministry of Defence was criticised for a shambolic reaction which some believed could have put the nation at serious risk in one of the country's most mysterious UFO sightings.

The UFO files have revealed that on the morning of 5 October 1996 bright lights were reported by several civilians but the Defence Secretary at the time, Michael Portillo, did nothing, 

The cache of 15 files, which have been published by the National Archives, contain details of sightings of UFOs over almost five decades.

They contain information about a number of high profile incidents that are believed to be related to extra-terrestrials, including in Rendlesham Forest in 1980, dubbed 'Britain's Roswell.'

The papers were originally meant to be released in 2013 alongside thousands of others which did see the light of day, but 18 specific documents were withheld. No one knows exactly why. 

Fifteen have now been published with the remaining three still withheld.  

The release marks the final stages of what's been a nine-year long project to declassify and release the MoD's entire archive of UFO files.

Mysteriously, the files have not yet been digitised so enthusiasts must go to the National Archives in Kew, West London if they want to have access to them.

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UFO Sightings In Wales and Manchester

While the existence of alien UFOs still hotly contested, Wales and Manchester in the UK have recorded multiple videos of UFO sightings since the last year. Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a UFO phenomenon investigative body, reported that Wales and Manchester have 25 and 23 UFO sightings respectively since January 2015.

According to people who have claimed to spot UFOs in Wales, the sighting range from a white dot moving three times faster than a jet, to craft as wide as a street.

UK MUFON recorded a total of 476 sightings between January 1, 2015, and in the middle of February in 2016.

Manchester also recorded several UFO sighting videos that show a range of objects, from five metallic flying objects travelling in a triangle formation to a red-green orb flying in diagonal formation at an incredible speed, and a large square object flying above the roof.

Are these numbers of UFO sightings mean that UFOs are hovering above the UK?

UFO sightings have not been only recorded in the UK, but also the other parts of the world, including the U.S.

ABC News previously revealed that the National UFO Reporting Center or NUFORC recorded a total of 1,177 UFO sightings from January to April 2015.

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Edwin Fuhr Shares His UFO Sighting In 1974 During An Interview

An eyewitness revealed in an interview that he saw many small silver disks landed in his farming field. Farmer Edwin Fuhr, 36, was at his grape crop at about 11:00 am to make a harvest. All of a sudden, he noticed a metallic dome object in a grassy area about 50 feet away. Trying to investigate the mysterious thing, he left his swather and walked around 15 feet of the object.

Seeing the object spinning and swirling the grass underneath made him afraid and backed away. He climbed back on the swather to look around and observed four more domes in a rough semi-circle, all looked the same, spinning and hovering approximately a foot over the ground.

Then one object took off, which was followed by the other four quickly, going up in a step formation. They stopped in approximately 200 feet with their exhaust-like extensions at the base emitting a puff of gray vapor. He saw the vapor extending about six feet. He then noticed a downward gust of the wind that flattened the rape in the immediate area.

The mysterious objects then formed a straight line, hovered for about two minutes, then suddenly went up into the low cloud cover and vanished.

Fuhr later learned that cattle in a field nearby had bellowed and broken through a fence during the time of the sighting. Eager to learn something more about what had taken place, he went into the landing area and saw five rings of depressed grass swirled in a clockwise pattern. He found no traces of heat or burning. Later that month, more circles were reported in the area.

Canadian Press quoted Ron Morier, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable, saying there was something and he doubted it was a hoax. He said the witness appeared genuinely scared and no indication that it had been wheeled in or out.

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NASA to shoot Didmyos asteroid into new flight path in DART test

The spacecraft, which is the size of a refrigerator, will strike an asteroid at nine times the speed of a bullet.

Image:Artist concept of NASA's DART spacecraft. Pic: NASA/JHUAPL

NASA is preparing its first ever mission to deflect an asteroid, a move the space agency hopes will provide lessons for how Earth can be protected from a potentially planet-destroying impact.

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MASSIVE MEGALITHIC BLOCKS OF STONES. EVIDENCE OF ADVANCED CIVILIZATIONS OF GIANTS IN RUSSIA?

In a remote region of Russia researchers and geologists have discovered huge rock formations that now make the existence of an ancient civilization made up of giants an extremely likely explanation.

More evidence emerges to prove the existence of an ancient giant civilization

The formations found near Mount Shoriya in Siberia are made up of huge boulders weighing from 3000 to 4000 tons each and stacked 130ft high. As with many other similar large rock formations found all over the globe for instance in Stonehenge and the Pyramids, the question arises as to how they were put together. Increasingly experts are considering the possibility that the explanation of an ancient civilization made up of giant humanoid beings is the only theory that comes close to explaining the construction of these huge and expertly assembled structures.

Such structures have baffled experts the world over for years

Firstly, the smooth flat surfaces and accurate angles on such huge boulders indicate the use of massive tools. Even modern machinery today would struggle to sculpt individual boulders of such size and on such a scale.

Secondly, the assembly of these boulders into the massive structures that are visible even today requires cranes and lifting equipment that did not even exist back when these structures were assembled.

Folklore and religion have previously been used to explain these structures and have even alluded to the existence of such beings. Scriptures in most Abrahamic faiths including Judaism, Christianity and Islam as well as Native American, Greek, Roman, Norsk, Jainism and Hindu faiths tell of a prehistoric civilization made of giant beings.

Some scientists have proposed that the formations arose due to natural geological processes over millions of years which have led to the eroding and shaping of the structures visible today.

However now in the face of lack of any other feasible explanation more and more skeptics have had to accept that only the existence of giants comes close to providing a credible explanation.

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UFOS, NASA, AND SHINY NEW PLANETS

A curious aspect of the UFO phenomena is why more people aren’t curious about it. I don’t mean regular people. A Newsweek poll shows most Americans (54 per cent) believe UFOs are visiting Earth from Alpha Centauri, or Sirius A, or Krypton, or some other place with cleaner air and better coffee.

I’m talking about those who could reveal to the public whether extraterrestrials are, in fact, visiting our planet illegally and taking jobs away from hard-working Americans. Connected people, powerful people, people who get things done – like Oprah Winfrey.

A recent study by doctoral student and statistician Sam Monfort (favorite T-shirt, “No one parties like a statistician”), shows there are more UFO sightings now than, well, ever. Triangle craft, cigar-shaped craft, saucers and the Millennium Falcon are being reported at a record number.

Seriously, the Millennium Falcon. Crashed. At the bottom of the Baltic Sea. This picture was taken in 2011 by the Swedish diving team that discovered it.

Monfort’s report shows there are 300 times as many sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in the United States than there are in the rest of the world combined. Given our political climate, I’m not surprised. Which brings me to the Offutt Extraterrestrial Hypothesis: Americans see UFOs because Canada’s not far enough away.

With the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arresting weepy American border crossers (21 in just one weekend in Emerson, Manitoba), I’m sure Taphao Thong looks like a good place to settle down (this is the planet’s actual name. It rolls off the tongue compared to 47 Ursae Majoris b).

But what do people in The Know know? You know?

NASA recently announced the discovery of seven rocky Earth-like planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 in its Goldilocks Zone (a distance from its star that would allow a planet to support liquid water). NASA scientists are going to begin searching for life there just as soon as they feel like it, but not now. They’re too busy naming the planets after Belgian beers (not a joke).

If there’s life out there, however, NASA may already know.

The agency mysteriously cut its live feed from the International Space Station on 9 June last year after a bright object flew through its view, per an article in USA Today. NASA denies voluntarily cutting the stream – just like it didn’t cut the video in January 2015 when a UFO hovered in front of the camera, and this February when “six large objects scurry(ed) by,” per the U.K.’s Daily Mirror.

The Daily Mirror article included posts from a man simply named “Tyler” from the UFO research group SecureTeam, claiming the objects to be “a fleet of unidentified flying objects moving in the distance behind the International Space Station.”

The objects were lens flares, per NASA. Even the one with the Pearl Jam bumper sticker.

NASA didn’t help its case for “move along, there are no aliens to see here,” by appearing on Reddit Feb. 22 to discuss the TRAPPIST-1 announcement. When the alternative media outlet Collective Evolution asked NASA when it was coming clean on aliens, Reddit deleted the outlet’s account.

I mean, that’s not suspicious, or anything.

UFO disclosure is all on your shoulders, Oprah Winfrey. All on yours.

Still frame from the ISS live feed picturing a hovering UFO.

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Will truth about 'UFO crash' in Roswell desert 70 years ago ever be known?

EXACTLY 70 years ago this week arguably the world's most notorious UFO mystery began after an "object" crashed near a ranch in the desert on the outskirts of Roswell, New Mexico.

UFO Disclosure 2017- 70th Anniversary of Roswell

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Russische satelliet zou op drie na helderste object aan nachtelijke hemel worden en astronomen zijn in alle staten - HLN.be

Bron: IFL Science, The Independent

© Moscow State Mechanical Engineering University .

Bij de lancering zal hij niet groter zijn dan een brood, maar een Russische satelliet die binnenkort in een baan om de aarde wordt gebracht, zou een van de helderste objecten worden aan de nachtelijke hemel als hij zich helemaal heeft ontvouwd. Alleen de zon, de maan en de planeet Venus zouden nog sterker schijnen. Astronomen kunnen er alvast niet mee lachen.

Het gaat om een project van de Moscow State Mechanical Engineering University en het werd gefinancierd via de Russische crowdfundingwebsite Boomstarter. Dankzij de 26.500 euro die daar voor 'Mayak' werd verzameld, kan de satelliet over tien dagen de ruimte in gebracht worden vanop de lanceerbasis van Bajkonoer in Kazachstan.

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Eenmaal in een baan om de aarde, op 600 kilometer hoogte, zal hij een gigantische, flinterdunne reflector van 16 vierkante meter ontvouwen in de vorm van een piramide. Die zal zonlicht naar de aarde kaatsen. Met de missie willen de wetenschappers ook een betere manier vinden om satellieten in en uit een goede baan om onze planeet te brengen. En de interesse in ruimtevaart en technologie doen toenemen.

Volgens de wetenschappelijke website IFL Science zou de satelliet echter schijnen met een magnitude van -3.6. Alleen de zon, de maan en Venus zijn nog krachtiger. De site acht het echter ook mogelijk dat het zelfs een magnitude van -10 zal zijn, wat hem nog helderder maakt dan Venus. 

"Vreselijk"
Astronomen kunnen er alvast niet om lachen. Want zij zitten niet te wachten op een kunstmatige ster die hun zicht beperkt. "We voeren strijd voor een donkere hemel bij nacht en het is vreselijk om dat verloren te zien gaan door belachelijke crowdfundingnonsens", aldus Nick Howes van het Kielder Observatory in Britse Northumberland.

Volgens Alex Shaenko - de projectleider van Mayak - zal het zo een vaart niet lopen en zou de satelliet niet zo helder schijnen als gevreesd.

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NASA ROVER SPOTS 'ALIEN THIGH BONE' ON MARS

E.T. enthusiasts claim photos are proof 'intelligent life forms once occupied the planet'

NASA’s rover has photographed a strange formation of rocks that some UFO hunters claim are really fossilized “alien bones” proving there’s life on Mars.

The one-ton Curiosity rover, which has been scouring the surface of the planet since August 2012, sent back a pair of images that resemble thigh bones and a hip bone protruding from the planet’s surface.

The alien-hunter group Martian Archaeology presented the images in a video claiming the photos are evidence of “signs of life”:

Some took the photos as surefire evidence that NASA must be hiding proof of life.

“After years of research and study, I’m convinced now, more than ever, that there[‘s] much more to Mars then [sic] what NASA admits to,” wrote T.J. Devereaux in the comments section of the video. “I’m certain life, including water, and intelligent life forms, once occupied the planet, and … big leap here … that both still exist, in much smaller quantities.”

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However, NASA has said the following 2014 photo – which some have claimed could be an “alien thigh bone – is just another weathered Martian rock.

In the photo description, NASA explained that the “Mars rock may look like a femur bone,” but it’s not the remains of a dead Martian.

“Mission science team members think its shape is likely sculpted by erosion, either wind or water,” NASA explained.

Even so, if aliens do live on Mars, they’re more likely to be microscopic creatures, the scientists said.

“If life ever existed on Mars, scientists expect that it would be small simple life forms called microbes,” NASA officials wrote in the photo description. “Mars likely never had enough oxygen in its atmosphere and elsewhere to support more complex organisms. Thus, large fossils are not likely.”

Some also claimed another photo snapped by the rover resembles a hip bone:

Image taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows weathered rocks that some say resemble a ‘hip bone’ on Mars

Apparently humans seeing shapes in Mars rocks is nothing new. In the 1800s, astronomers believed they located canals on the Red Planet.

And in 1976, a photo from NASA’s Viking 1 orbiter depicted a rock formation that resembled a shadowy human face, known as the “Face on Mars.”

Since then, other photos revealed rock formations resembling a lizard, a rat and even a jelly donut.

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