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

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Mass UFO sighting: 'Police chopper circled bizarre UFO in broad daylight over Los Angeles'

Mass UFO sighting: 'Police chopper circled bizarre UFO in broad daylight over Los Angeles'

CLEAR footage showing a helicopter investigating a bizarre-looking circular "UFO" has sent alien chasers into overdrive.

The video, filmed over Los Angeles on Saturday, shows what has been described as an LA County Sheriffs helicopter checking out a hovering spherical object

It has been shared several times on social media and UFO and conspiracy theory websites and YouTube channel.

Tyler Glockner, who runs conspiracy theory YouTube channel Secureteam10, produced a video about the sighting.

In the short video he said a lot of people recorded it and saw it, which "validated the sighting."

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He said: "We have a police helicopter checking it out and circling it, which gives the impression they don't know what it is.

"It is a mysterious, almost metallic sphere and is completely static.

"Is this possibly the best UFO sighting all year?"

He said he had ruled it out being a hot air balloon "because there was no basket."

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The sphere was filmed being investigated by a police helicopter.

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Is this possibly the best UFO sighting all year?

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However, hopes that evidence of aliens may have been discovered above California, were soon dashed however, by sceptical debunkers.

The LASD aero bureau later confirmed what it was investigating.

The spherical object turned out to be an advertising helium balloon for vape company Brass Knuckles.

Scott Brando, who runs hoax busting website ufoofinterest.org, tweeted: "Object identified. As I said that #UFO filmed from #LosAngeles was an advertising balloon by "Brass Knuckles"."

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The Hoaxeye sceptical Twitter feed added: "Confirmed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department aero bureau."

Despite this, some of the original witnesses, did not believe the advertising balloon was what they saw.

Spike Karigan‏ tweeted: "That Is in no way as big as the one I shot. This Is full of hot air, literally."

Patco incorporated‏ tweeted: "That is not the object filmed the other day. The object in question was silver. That balloon looks nothing like it."

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Stealth bombers, UFO rumors, test pilots among Wright-Patterson's past 100 years

Stealth bombers, UFO rumors, test pilots among Wright-Patterson's past 100 years

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The F-117 Stealth Bomber with a C-5A Transport on the flight line at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, on May 10, 2003. NASA Identifier: C-2003-915

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By BARRIE BARBER | Dayton Daily News

DAYTON, Ohio (Tribune News Service) — For a century, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s legend was being the birthplace of the military test pilot, where foreign aircraft and missile technology secrets were discovered, and of long denied rumors of space aliens and UFO captivity.

But what marks Wright-Patterson’s history in the Miami Valley more than anything else as it celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, is the military installation’s decades-long output of discoveries and inventions that have had a revolutionary impact on the aerospace industry and technology used worldwide.

From stealth technology that turned military jets nearly invisible to radar to heat shields that protected a space capsule’s scorching plummet toward Earth, Wright-Patterson and its predecessors were the places where it happened, observers say.

“If you’ve ever flown on an airline or a commercial airplane there’s almost nothing on that airplane that was not affected by the labs or the technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,” said Timothy Gaffney, a Dayton area aviation history author and expert.

The cradle of aviation

The genesis of Wright-Patterson traces to 1917, when the Army carved out two Dayton airfields, Wilbur Wright Field and later McCook Field, to push the boundaries of the new science of aeronautics and flying. Wright-Patt encompasses Huffman Prairie Flying Field, where Orville and Wilbur Wright perfected the airplane.

Today, the base has targeted cutting-edge hypersonic research to developing wearable bio-technologies for soldiers on the battlefield with a push to commercialize technology produced in Air Force Research Laboratory shops.

“It’s one of the important centers for aeronautical research in the United States,” said Janet Bednarek, a University of Dayton professor who teaches aviation history. “All throughout its history, very important, fundamental research and testing work has happened at what is now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the surrounding area.”

Wright-Patterson has evolved into the state’s largest single-site employer, with more than 27,000 employees and a more than $4 billion estimated impact.

“The base I think certainly has provided a lot of stability and carried us through those times where there has been a lot of upturns and downturns in industry,” said John Leland, vice president of research and the executive director of the University of Dayton Research Institute, which has a long history of joint technology development with Wright-Patt labs.

Thousands of inventions and research discoveries have bubbled over from Wright-Patterson for decades.

According to AFRL, among the most significant are advanced gas turbine engines, aircraft electronic controls, stealth, advancements in radar and composites, precision-guided bombs, advanced telescopes, and fuels.

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The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber made one pass at the 2009 Vectren Dayton AIr Show on Saturday, July 18. Staff Writer

Golf clubs to cell phones

Technology spin-offs out of Wright-Patterson research hubs have touched millions of people every day.

Wright-Patterson developed rare earth magnets that are in everything from cell phones, audio speakers, headphones to computers and cordless power tools, said Charles E. Browning, a retired Wright-Patt employee who once led the Materials & Manufacturing Directorate.

Composites, such as carbon fibers, discovered at Wright-Patterson form aircraft wings and shape sports equipment, he said.

The advancement of jet engine technology adapted in both military and civil aviation and laser-and satellite-guided bombs and missiles were two important technologies developed at Wright-Patt, said Morley O. Stone, chief technology officer at AFRL, headquartered at Wright-Patterson.

And to gain an edge in war, Wright-Patt scientists helped create and perfect precision bombing to overcome an adversary’s advantage of more troops, tanks, planes and ships in combat.

“This is really the (Department of Defense) strategy that we had for closing the numerical superiority that this nation (faced) when we were looking at things like the Soviet Union on the battlefield of Eastern Europe,” Stone said.

Radar-evading stealth allowed the U.S. “to maintain air superiority for decades,” Stone said.

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Parachute testing at Dayton’s McCook Field, a forerunner of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, circa 1918. DAYTON HISTORY Staff Writer

Birthplace of the right stuff

McCook Field was the birthplace of the earliest test pilots and “cradle of aviation” experiments that pushed the frontiers of early powered flight in the military.

Along with new airplane designs and engines, the field supported a U.S. Army Air Service around the world flight in 1924 and developed free-fall parachutes.

“Airplanes were new, they were brand new, and they were still just learning about the fundamentals of how to … fly higher, faster, farther,” Bednarek said.

Earliest test pilot pioneers Jimmy Doolittle at McCook Field and Chuck Yeager at Wright Field practiced the art of “the right stuff” in Dayton.

Both later gained international fame. Doolittle led the U.S. B-25 Mitchell bombing raid against Japan in April 1942 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Yeager was the first pilot to break the sound barrier in level flight in the Bell X-1 rocket plane over California’s Mohave desert in October 1947.

Pioneer researchers often invented the technologies needed to reach higher, farther and faster.

McCook Field workers in the 1920s built the “Five-Foot Wind Tunnel,” used to design a new era of all-metal monoplanes from the earliest days of cloth and wood biplanes, according a historical narrative. . In 1995, the machine – then under the ownership of the Air Force Institute of Technology — was declared a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark. It ceased operations in 2003.

“Almost every craft that was used during the Second World War and leading up to it was tested in that tunnel,” said Brady Kress, president and CEO of Dayton History. “The basics of aeronautical research and lift and drag and all of that – the core principles of modern aviation, were all conducted on that.”

In World War II, as the base workforce swelled to 50,000, Wright Field made historic progress in pursuit, bombardment, and observation planes and auto giros and helicopters, according to the book, “Splendid Vision, Unswerving Purpose: Developing Air Power for the United States Air Force for the First Century of Powered Flight.”

Operation Paperclip brought German scientists after the end of World War II to Wright Field, among other places in the United States, to advance U.S. air and space science which was in a Cold War contest with the Soviet Union.

Many with jet engine expertise headed to Wright-Patterson after the war, Gaffney said. “It was the go-to place for aviation technology,” he said.

From the skies to the stars, Wright-Patterson has a decades-long record in spaceflight. Candidates to become the first Mercury 7 astronauts, for example, underwent a battery of psychological, physiology and biochemical tests at Wright-Patterson, testing the would-be space travelers mettle to withstand noise, vibration and heat and endure exhausting exercises before they were chosen to climb aboard a flaming rocket to be the first Americans launched into space.

“When we started to look at what it takes to actually put a human being in space the crew systems support that was required to do that basically all had to be created and invented,” Stone said.

For Ohio native John Glenn, memories of the tests at Wright-Patterson were vivid when Stone met the late Mercury astronaut and former U.S. senator a few years ago.

“He looked at me, pointed that finger at me and says, ‘The worst week of my life was spent at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,’” Stone said.

Wright-Patterson continues to lead U.S. military aerospace medical research. The 711th Human Performance Wing and the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine are headquartered at the base, which is set to launch a $34.4 million centrifuge that will test the limits of military pilots to withstand crushing g-forces.

Uncovering adversaries' secrets

The dissection of adversaries technology in secret labs fell to the Foreign Technology Division, a forerunner of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson

Under Project Blue Book, Wright-Patterson was immersed in the 1950s and 1960s in investigating reports of Unidentified Flying Objects – or flying saucers. The Air Force has long denied aliens or UFOs were hidden at Wright-Patt or that investigators found credible evidence of alien technology or life on Earth.

More commonly, Wright-Patt scientists and engineers reversed-engineered foreign missiles and planes – a task that continues today at NASIC — to discover what made them work. In recent decades, researchers dissected Soviet-era missiles and a MiG-29, one of which stands outside the secretive agency.

“They weren’t chasing aliens,” Gaffney said. “They were worrying about whether these things were threats to national security.”

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The truth is in there? Secret US base in Ohio hides living and dead aliens from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash, claims retired Air Force engineer who worked there for 39 years

The truth is in there? Secret US base in Ohio hides living and dead aliens from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash, claims retired Air Force engineer who worked there for 39 years

  • Raymond Szymanksi says aliens from the infamous crash were bought to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in Dayton, Ohio for inspection 
  • He said the mentor told him about a system of tunnels that house living and deceased extra-terrestrial beings 
  • Szymanski claims his mentor at the facility once asked him, 'Have you heard about our aliens?' 

A secret US base in Ohio hides living and dead aliens from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash, according to a retired Air Force engineer who worked there for 39 years.

Raymond Szymanksi says aliens from the infamous crash were bought to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in Dayton, Ohio for inspection. 

He said a mentor told him about a system of tunnels that house living and deceased extra-terrestrial beings.

Raymond Szymanksi says aliens from the infamous crash were bought to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (pictured) in Dayton, Ohio for inspection

Szymanski claims his mentor at the facility once asked him, 'Have you heard about our aliens?', according to The Sun. 

Speaking to the Sun Online, he said: 'During my first week, Al provided me with some totally unexpected and unsolicited sage advice.

'He said that in 1947 there was a crash down in Roswell and they brought the machines and the aliens here for inspection and said they keep them in secret tunnels under the base.'

The town of Roswell in New Mexico became infamous after reports that a flying saucer had crashed in the desert near a military base there on or around July 2, 1947.

Raymond Szymanksi (pictured) said a mentor told him about a system of tunnels that house living and deceased extra-terrestrial beings

Raymond Szymanksi (pictured) said a mentor told him about a system of tunnels that house living and deceased extra-terrestrial beings

The bodies of aliens were said to have been recovered and autopsied by the U.S. military, but American authorities allegedly covered the incident up.

Military authorities issued a press release, which began: 'The many rumours regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc.'

The headlines screamed: 'Flying Disc captured by Air Force.' Yet, just 24 hours later, the military changed their story and claimed the object they'd first thought was a 'flying disc' was a weather balloon that had crashed on a nearby ranch.

The Roswell incident in 1947 when autopsies were allegedly carried out on aliens who crashed in the New Mexico desert, and then covered up by American authorities. Pictured, one of the supposedly captured aliens 

The Roswell incident in 1947 when autopsies were allegedly carried out on aliens who crashed in the New Mexico desert, and then covered up by American authorities. Pictured, one of the supposedly captured aliens 

The bodies of aliens were said to have been recovered and autopsied by the U.S. military, but American authorities allegedly covered the incident up

The bodies of aliens were said to have been recovered and autopsied by the U.S. military, but American authorities allegedly covered the incident up


The media and the public accepted the explanation without question. Roswell disappeared from the news until the late Seventies, when some of the military involved began to speak out. 

In 2012, a long-serving CIA agent spoke out on the 65th anniversary of the Roswell Incident to reveal a hidden CIA file on the 'UFO' that was supposedly found at the site - and says, 'It really happened.'

Conspiracy theorists believe that alien bodies from the crashed 'disc' were autopsied - and that modern technologies have been built on discoveries from inside the craft.

The headlines screamed: 'Flying Disc captured by Air Force.' Yet, just 24 hours later, the military changed their story and claimed the object they'd first thought was a 'flying disc' was a weather balloon that had crashed on a nearby ranch

The headlines screamed: 'Flying Disc captured by Air Force.' Yet, just 24 hours later, the military changed their story and claimed the object they'd first thought was a 'flying disc' was a weather balloon that had crashed on a nearby ranch

Pictured, a map of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Pictured, a map of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

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Chase Brandon, an agent who served 25 years with the agency, said that the information is concealed in a hidden vault within the agency's Langley headquarters.

'It was in a vaulted area - there was one box that really caught my eye. It had one word on it: Roswell. I rummaged inside it, put the box on the shelf and said, "My God, it really happened." 

Szymanski has written a book on the topic called 50 Shades of Greys. 

Roswell disappeared from the news until the late Seventies, when some of the military involved began to speak out. Pictured, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base today

Roswell disappeared from the news until the late Seventies, when some of the military involved began to speak out. Pictured, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base today

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Did you see the ‘UFO’ over the San Gabriel Valley last week? Local sleuths may have figured out what it was.

Did you see the ‘UFO’ over the San Gabriel Valley last week? Local sleuths may have figured out what it was.

Residents across several San Gabriel Valley cities on Sept. 3 recorded videos and snapped photos of what many described as a “UFO.” The object, which appeared on closer examniation to be a balloon advertising a store selling marijuana concentrates and vaporizer pens, was seen in West Covina and Sierra Madre. (Courtesy photo)

Residents across several San Gabriel Valley cities on Sept. 3 recorded videos and snapped photos of what many described as a “UFO.” The object, which appeared on closer examniation to be a balloon advertising a store selling marijuana concentrates and vaporizer pens, was seen in West Covina and Sierra Madre.

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A spherical object spotted hovering silently over the San Gabriel Valley this week had residents gazing skyward and wondering what they were witnessing.

The object appeared in the sky over the San Gabriel Valley the morning of Aug. 28.

One video, posted by YouTube user Julian Lopez, appears to show a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department helicopter circling around the object for an inspection around 7 a.m. over West Covina.

“Well, my friends, there’s a UFO over the San Gabriel Valley,” the videographer said.

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UFO Captured over Los Angeles California San Gabriel Valley 08/28/2017

“A helicopter is circling it,” he added. “It looks like a big eyeball.”

While the object resembled a large balloon, “There’s nothing holding it down, though. That’s the thing,” Lopez.

Lopez said he had just finished washing his car when he spotted the object out of the corner of his eye.

The sphere was gray in color and made no noise, he said.

“It was just weird because it didn’t budge,” Lopez said. The witnesses went into his house to tell his 6-year-old son to come take a look, as well as to retrieve his cell phone to record video.

The man and his son watched as two helicopters flew in close proximity to the object. At least one of them circled around it before leaving the area.

After sitting motionless for several minutes, the object slowly began moving toward the west, Lopez said. He had to stop recording in order to prepare his kids for school and go to work.

But another witnesses in Arcadia spotted and photographed the object several hours later, about 10 miles to the northwest.

Daniel Acosta was with his wife when they noticed the object floating motionless in the sky. Acosta estimated the object was hovering at least 1,000 feet above Altadena and appeared to be 6 to 10 feet in diameter.

“It’s the strangest thing. I have no idea,” he said.

Acosta said he initial reaction was: “That doesn’t belong there, and it doesn’t make sense.”

Officials at the sheriff’s Aero Bureau said a sheriff’s helicopter often checks out potential airborne hazards that are spotted in the sky, but no information about the object was available Sunday. The crew that manned the helicopter on Aug. 28 was not on duty Sunday.

Local police and sheriff’s officials had no information regarding the sightings, and Federal Aviation Spokesman Allen Kenitzer said he also had no information regarding the incident, which resulted in no report by the FAA.

The National UFO Reporting Centerkeeps a database of unusual sighting in the sky, however, reports from Monday were yet to be uploaded to the archive over the weekend.

As conversation and speculation about the object swirled through the community, both online and real, local sleuths offered a possible answer to the mystery: an advertising balloon.

“I noticed the UFO Monday around 10 a.m. from Monrovia,” Jon Gollihugh said in a email. “It was (hovering) over the mouth of San Gabriel Canyon. There was a large buzz about it on Facebook with residents of Sierra Madre.”

“One person took a telephoto shot of it. It appeared to be an advertisement balloon for a THC (E-cigarette) that got away.” he said. “I followed it across the foothills from above Sierra Madre towards Monrovia canyon around 11:30 a.m.”

Several witnesses reported seeing a large, white advertising balloon emblazoned with a corporate logo in the same time and vicinity of the object.

One photograph captured the logo of a company called “Brass Knuckles,” which sells marijuana extracts and vaporizing products.

It was not clear Sunday night whether the advertising balloon was the same object that triggered Monday’s UFO sighting reports.

Lopez said the incident has left him more curious.

“I’m kind of looking up more at the sky,” he said.

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UFO investigators capture fresh video of Area 51

UFO investigators capture fresh video of Area 51

A pair of hikers have captured new footage of the secretive US military compound Area 51 after scaling a nearby mountain under the cover of darkness.

Calling themselves "The UFO Seekers", the pair ascended Tikaboo Peak which lies a whopping 41.8 kilometres away from Area 51 in the Nevada Desert.

They then used the strongest telescopic camera equipment available off the shelf to capture sweeping images inside the world's most talked-about military base, and uploaded it to YouTube.

Sadly, despite having the clearest footage yet, there was little sign of any extra-terrestrials – but that hasn’t stopped the conspiracy theorists from having a field day with hare-brained explanations.

First erected in 1942, Area 51 was little more than a pair of runways used to ferry miners in and out of the desert to work on nearby lead and silver refineries.

But in 1955 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) took control of the runways and implemented highly-classified security restrictions.

Their plan – if you believe it – was to use the wide open expanses of the desert to develop the Lockheed U-2, an ultra-secretive reconnaissance aircraft designed to fly at extreme heights over unknowing Soviet nations to capture intelligence.

Area 51 became the US Government's go-to facility for conducting highly-classified aerial testing, and became the birthplace for the now-infamous Lockheed Stealth Bomber.

During the Cold War the government would also ferry captured Soviet aircraft to the desert, in a bid to stealthily replicate and understand Russian technology.

The sheer absurdity of the variety of aircraft available – and likely, the aerial manoeuvres performed by the world's best pilots – made Area 51 a hotspot for UFO buffs.

Several conspiracy theories have developed over the true purpose of Area 51, with the most popular claiming that an underground lab hidden beneath Groom Lake houses the only-known crashed UFO and the bodies of aliens inside.

Part of the tin-foil brigade's reasoning is the strange occurrence of the "Cheshire airstrip", a secret runway that many claim only appears when rain sprinkles onto its camouflaged asphalt.

Although none of the conspiracy theories have ever been conclusively proven, the intense security restrictions around Area 51 have done little to silence doubters.

The base is patrolled around the clock by guards. Signage around the perimeter of the base tells visitors photography is not permitted and that deadly force will be used against trespassers.

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Bizarre UFOs seen on radar near Salisbury Plain by 11 people including RAF wing commander

Bizarre UFOs seen on radar near Salisbury Plain by 11 people including RAF wing commander

UP TO seven UFOs were seen on radar by 11 astonished people including an RAF wing commander.

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RAF wing commander Alan Turner could not explain UFO activity he and 11 others saw on radar.

Alan Turner OBE said he and 10 others watched in amazement as "six or seven" unexplainable blips appeared on radar they were monitoring.

Mr Turner was duty military supervisor at RAF Sopley, in Hampshire, when the inexplicable events unfolded.

He said: "The duty civil supervisor drew my attention to a situation on radar the likes of which neither of us had ever encountered.

"Emanating from a point some twenty nautical miles east of the eastern extremity of the Salisbury Plain danger area were a series of six or seven blips moving on a south-easterly track each being separated from the other by about six miles."

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He said that strangely, at about forty miles from the point they appeared on radar, they disappeared but were "followed almost immediately by a replacement at the point of origin”.

He established they were at 3,000 feet when they first appeared on radar, but were rising rapidly to be at 60,000 feet once they disappeared.

He said: "To climb to such a height in only forty miles was beyond the ability of any fighter aircraft at the time."

Mr Turner said the phenomenon was witnessed by four civil and six military controllers on duty at the time in other areas.

He said: "I called Heathrow radar to discover that they, also, were seeing a similar picture. 

"The same situation prevailed in the fighter control operations rooms at RAF Neatishead, near Norwich, Norfolk. 

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To climb to such a height in only forty miles was beyond the ability of any fighter aircraft at the time.

Alan Turner

"The three units involved operated different radars from each other thus different frequencies were in use."

A baffled Mr Turner made checks with the Met Office to try to get to the bottom of what happened.

He said: "The weather forecast from the south of England was calm and sunny. 

"I called the Met Office to confirm the strength of the upper winds to find that they were also relatively calm and were about fifty degrees off the south-easterly track of the blips.”

Mr Turner insisted the Met Office also confirmed there were no Met balloons or probes airborne at the time.

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He said: "I am at a loss to explain what I, and many other people, saw. 

"In those days aircraft could not climb at such a rate. To be seen on displays by three different ground radars, plus the airborne radar in the Canberra, is also a mystery."

Details of the case, which happened in the summer of 1971, have been revealed by veteran British UFO investigator Philip Mantle, as one of his most memorable investigations, as he prepares to retire from the UFO conference scene.

Mr Mantle will recount this and a number of other UFO cases at the Outer Limits Magazine UFO conference in Hull on September 9.

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ALIEN UFO SHOCK: Mum and six kids ‘see flying saucer… before 3 beings get out’

ALIEN UFO SHOCK: Mum and six kids ‘see flying saucer… before 3 beings get out’

A MOTHER and six children claimed to see a flying saucer landed on the ground before three “very tall men in silver suits” appeared beside it.

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A CGI impression of the visitation seen by the family.

The bizarre sighting is said to have happened in Normanton, West Yorkshire, when one of the children ran into the kitchen and told the mum a plane had landed in a field. 

Joyce Westerman and all six children were interviewed by UFO investigators and gave a similar account.

The case has been detailed by veteran British UFO investigator Philip Mantle, as his most memorable investigation, as he prepares to retire from the UFO conference scene.

He said: ”Accounts of UFOs allegedly landing and their apparent occupants being observed as well is remarkably rare, but I investigated such an account with my colleague Mark Birdsall of the Yorkshire UFO Society. 

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“It has stayed with me ever since.”

Mr Mantle said he was told it was around mid-afternoon when her eight year old daughter ran into the house shouting and crying and telling her mother to “come quick, an airplane has just landed in the field.” 

He said: “Just a matter of a few hundred yards away, in the fields adjacent to her house, she saw an object on the ground. 

“It was a dull grey colour and had the appearance of a “Mexican hat”. 

“Around the object stood three very tall “men” all of who appeared to be dressed in silver suits. 

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Around the object stood three very tall 'men' all of who appeared to be dressed in silver suits.

Philip Mantle

“These men seemed to be pointing to a dark instrument on the ground.”

He said the witnesses described it as looking light a torch with no light.

Mr Mantle added: “The uniforms the men wore, were metallic silver and would crease when the men moved.”

They said the men then went to the rear of the “craft” and it “rose vertically, stopped in mid-air, and then shot off at an angle at a high rate of speed.”

Mr Mantle said: “All of the witnesses stated quite clearly that both upon landing and departure this object never made a sound. 

“Needless to say they were speechless.  All six of Mrs Westerman’s children related similar accounts to us. 

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“There were minor discrepancies but we expected to find that from different people. 

“I have often been asked by people down the years which one UFO case is the ‘best’ one I have come across and I have to say that Mrs Westerman and her six children is the one that for many reasons is always at the top of my list.”

The events happened in early summer 1979.

Mr Mantle will recount this and a number of other UFO cases at the Outer Limits Magazine UFO conference in Hull on September 9.

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Did UFOs invade Stoke-on-Trent 50 years ago?

Did UFOs invade Stoke-on-Trent 50 years ago?

In 1967 there was a sudden spate of UFO sightings over North Staffordshire.

BY RICHARD AULT

Did aliens visit Stoke-on-Trent? This mocked up photograph shows a UFO hovering over the city.

Did aliens visit Stoke-on-Trent? This mocked up photograph shows a UFO hovering over the city.

High above the bottle kilns which littered the Potteries skyline and the crimson glow from the furnaces at Shelton Bar – dozens of strange objects were spotted hovering over North Staffordshire.

Summer was coming to an end in 1967 and the truth was certainly out there. But as to what that truth was has still not been explained some 50 years later.

That was the time when dozens of people reported seeing ‘flying saucers’ in the North Staffordshire skies. The first sighting was reported in The Evening Sentinel on August 28, 1967, but the UFO epidemic continued well into September.

It was seen by an 18-year-old man who told the newspaper in a letter: “I was crossing the canal bridge at Howard Place, Shelton, on the right hand side of the road, when I happened to glance up to my right along the direction of the canal, and to my astonishment I saw two bright orange lights hanging motionless in the sky.

“The two lights were the same size and elliptical (oval) in shape, and were somewhat separated by a distance somewhat less than the length of one of them. There was no noise.

“Living in Shelton, no-one can have failed to see the sky lit by the furnaces at Shelton Bar, but the lights I saw were unlike anything I have ever seen in my life.”

That was the first of many UFO sightings over the next few days and weeks. In fact the investigators Roger Stanway and Anthony Pace later logged more than 70 separate incidents of UFO activity over Stoke-on-Trent in their report, UFOs: Unidentified, Undeniable.

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The day after the first letter appeared in The Sentinel, two more UFOs were witnessed over Newcastle, by a 17-year-old girl and three of her friends. She told The Sentinel: “We were motoring from Newcastle towards Nantwich and we had got outside Newcastle when we suddenly spotted two red lights which appeared to be travelling at a great speed across the country.

“We tried to follow them in the car but they gradually got smaller and smaller and then disappeared. I was quite frightened at first.”

She added that one of the lights appeared to be longer in shape than the other and both were very bright.

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“At first we thought they might have been car lights, but when they disappeared suddenly, we realised they were not. We were going to report the matter to the police but thought better of it. They would probably have thought we had been drinking,” she said.

A still from the 1977 movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

A still from the 1977 movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

On August 31, under the headline, “saucers galore”, The Sentinel reported on a number of other sightings. A Smallthorne woman saw a “bright orange light” hovering over some nearby houses.

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“I am positive it was a flying saucer,” she said, “the light seemed to be revolving and there was absolutely no noise. After a few minutes the light moved off in the direction of Norton, but it stayed as bright as ever.”

A girl from Bentilee saw a UFO coming towards Hanley High School from Shelton. When her parents, and brother came out to look, they saw two more. Eventually, all three flying saucers disappeared in the direction of Longton.

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More sightings were made each day, of flying saucers, domes shining red and orange, luminous cigar shapes and other UFOs. Experts at Jodrell Bank, however, were sceptical, suggesting that what had really been seen could have been a weather balloon, a satellite low on the horizon, the glance of the sun on a delta-winged bomber, or a, “more local reflection”.

Have aliens visited Stoke-on-Trent?

Have aliens visited Stoke-on-Trent?

But still more reports of flying saucers arrived at The Sentinel’s offices in Foundry Street, Hanley.

The tale took a new twist on September 1, 1967, when a housewife reported three more saucers – which had landed in a field near Hanley High School. She told The Sentinel: “I saw the same objects in the same place the night before, but I waited until I could check again.

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“Last night I saw one large, bright orange light and two smaller ones further away. The bright one was flashing and throwing out vertically a shower of green sparks. The objects rose slowly and disappeared.”

RAF Ternhill attempted to end the mystery by explaining that some of the sightings could have been helicopters or flares dropped by aircraft.

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“On Monday and Tuesday (September 4 and 5) we were dropping flares by parachute to assist the pilots landing at night. These are bright red in colour and on a clear night they can be seen from miles around. We occasionally get calls from people saying they have spotted unidentified flying objects and it usually turns out to be the flares,” said a spokesman for the Air Traffic Control Centre.

Have aliens ever visited Stoke-on-Trent?

Have aliens ever visited Stoke-on-Trent?

He added that another explanation could be helicopters: “Group Captain E.W. Deacon has been flying over the Newcastle area this week and people might have seen his helicopter which has flashing red navigation lights.”

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So that explains the mystery of the flying saucers.

Except that the RAF had no idea what it was that people had seen a week earlier, when the bulk of the reports had been made.

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“We had no night flights at all last week,” added the spokesman, “many of the UFO sightings are probably genuine.”

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EGYPTISCHE FARAO'S PRODUCT VAN GENETISCHE MANIPULATIE BUITENAARDSEN ( VIDEO

EGYPTISCHE FARAO'S PRODUCT VAN GENETISCHE MANIPULATIE BUITENAARDSEN ( VIDEO )

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Je zult het in geen enkel geschiedenisboek tegenkomen, maar wanneer je goed naar afbeeldingen kijkt van de farao’s dan valt onmiddellijk iets op. 

Er hebben inmiddels onderzoeken plaatsgevonden waaruit blijkt dat de Egyptische farao's het product waren van genetische manipulatie door buitenaardse bezoekers.



De mensheid is in het algemeen nogal onder de indruk van titels. Als iemand bijvoorbeeld Drs of Mr voor zijn of haar naam zet, dan denkt men al snel hier te maken te hebben met iemand die het wel zal weten. 

Zo zit het ook met onze geschiedenis. En dus wordt ons door geschiedkundigen met indrukwekkende titels voor hun naam verteld dat onze menselijke beschaving ongeveer vijfduizend jaar oud is en dat er daarvoor misschien een soort oermens op deze aarde rondwandelde. 

Gelukkig zijn er steeds meer mensen die zich niets aantrekken van al die geleerde titels en eindelijk zelf een keer hun logisch denkvermogen gebruiken. 

En dat logische denkvermogen zegt dat wanneer er op talloze plekken op aarde op verschillende continenten hetzelfde soort afbeeldingen worden gevonden van duizenden jaren oud, dat een manier van onze verre voorouders was om ons een boodschap door te geven. Een boodschap van iets dat ze hadden gezien of meegemaakt en niet het resultaat van een overmatige fantasie zoals de geleerde titels ons willen doen geloven. 

We hebben de laatste weken in een aantal artikelen gevonden voorwerpen laten zien uit Egypte en Mexico, waaruit zonder enige twijfel blijkt dat ver voor onze huidige beschaving er buitenaardsen deze planeet hebben bezocht. 

Op verschillende continenten komen de duizenden jaren geleden gemaakte voorwerpen voor wat betreft afbeeldingen overeen en beiden tonen typische kenmerken die je in verband kunt brengen met buitenaards leven zoals de karakteristieke alien gezichtsvorm en hun bijbehorende ruimteschepen. 

En wanneer we het hebben over bepaalde gezichtsvormen, dan worden de typische langgerekte schedels ook in verband gebracht met wezens van andere planeten, waarover wij eerder schreven. 

Zoals over een groep onderzoekers met de naam Genesis Quest. 

Aangezien een aantal van hun fysieke kenmerken zo afwijken van de onze, kunnen deze wezens misschien wel afstammen van een totaal andere en tot nu onbekende mensensoort. Er is een ander aanknopingspunt en dat is dat er meer menselijke resten met dit soort afwijkende strukturen gevonden zijn in andere delen van de wereld. Overigens altijd in de buurt van monolithische (homogeen en moeilijk doordringbaar) structuren, waar men ook geen verklaring voor heeft. 

Je vindt de langwerpige schedel ook terug in kunstvormen binnen oude culturen en het schijnt dat ze aanbeden werden. Ook bij de Egyptenaren vind je ze terug en dan met name in afbeeldingen van King Tut en zijn familie. Als deze schedels inderdaad zou oud blijken te zijn en er zou een DNA overeenkomst worden gevonden met resten uit andere delen van de wereld, dan zou dit bewijzen dat men al oceanen kon oversteken in een tijd waar volgens de geschiedenis alleen primitieve jagers voorkwamen. Dat gegeven op zich zou betekenen dat de geschiedenis kan worden herschreven. 

Volgens andere bronnen blijkt uit recente onderzoeken dat de Egyptische farao’s het product zijn van genetische manipulatie door een vergevorderd buitenaards ras.

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Dit soort onderzoeken wordt bewust uit de media gehouden, maar de genetische resultaten van een assistent professor, Stuart Fleischmann, van de Zwitserse universiteit in Cairo zijn veelbelovend. 

Zo bleek bijvoorbeeld uit DNA onderzoek bij de farao Achnaton, vader van Toetanchamon, dat er een afwijkend gene voorkwam, CXPAC-5 genaamd, die verantwoordelijk is voor het groeien van de hersenschors.


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Alles wat wordt gevonden in Egypte wijst op een buitenaardse beschavingen en natuurlijk zijn de piramides veel ouderdan de paar duizend jaar zoals ons wordt wijsgemaakt. 

Het meest aannemelijke is dat ze zijn gebouwd rond 10.000 voor Christus, ruim 12.000 jaar geleden. 

De volgende korte video geeft nog eens een aantal voorbeelden waaruit de conclusie kan worden getrokken dat ieder zelfdenkend/geïnformeerd mens kan weten dat er buitenaardsen in Egypte actief waren. 

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UFO enthusiasts say Houston has seen lots of strange flying objects in 2017

UFO enthusiasts say Houston has seen lots of strange flying objects in 2017

Odds of spotting a UFO: 1-in-3 million(Source: New York Post) Photo: Nicholas Eveleigh, Houston Chronicle / (c) Nicholas Eveleigh

Photo: Nicholas Eveleigh, Houston Chronicle

Photo: Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle

"I was traveling to work along Beltway 8 East in Houston, TX, this morning and noticed an extremely bright light high in the clear blue sky. The illuminating light was spherical and grew in size, somewhat changing shape, then decreased in size, then completely disappeared in an instance. It did this three times within a period of 3 minutes or less."
Reportedly seen on Sept. 8, 2017 in Houston
Source: Texas UFO Sightings

Photo: Lorenz And Avelar/Getty Images
"I was sitting in my truck on the second level of the Hilton Parking Garage making phone calls, when I noticed something reflective moving in a NNW direction high in altitude... I saw no details, other than it was quite large and it was shiny- close to what I would guess was disk like- but I can't say for certain."
Reportedly seen on Aug. 5, 2017 in Houston
Source: Texas UFO Sightings

Photo: Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)

"A beekeeper was retrieving a bee trap at the Sienna Plantation near Sugar Land in Houston when they stopped to snap some quick photos of the sun setting. When they viewed the photos later, they noticed a strange dark cylindrical object in just one of the photos, implying the object must have been moving at a very fast rate." 
Reportedly seen on June 17, 2017 in Sugar Land
Source: Texas UFO Sightings

A large bright light hovering in the sky was seen in Katy without an explanation as to what it could be. Some say it was a UFO.Reportedly seen on June 1, 2017Source: Texas UFO Sightings Photo: YouTube Via  secureteam10

Photo: YouTube Via secureteam10

A large bright light hovering in the sky was seen in Katy without an explanation as to what it could be. Some say it was a UFO.
Reportedly seen on June 1, 2017
Source: Texas UFO Sightings

Photo: Mark Stevenson/Stocktrek Images, Getty Images

"At the beginning, it was 6 UFOs in a shape of triangle/Diamond and move fast from one location to another. When they move in shape of one line. We had pictures taken at the open of the golf course."
Reportedly seen on April 23, 2017
Source: Texas UFO Sightings

Photo: Anonymous, ASSOCIATED PRESS

"Originally there was 3 lights in a large, vertical triangle formation. Each light would independently fade away, vanish and then reappear in place. They were almost stationary but you could see them very slowly moving south. One by one, each light finally disappeared." Reportedly seen on May 24, 2017
Source: Texas UFO sightings

Photo: ANTONIO SCORZA, Getty Images

Photo: Christian, Carol, Screen Shots Via MUFON

"I had nine other friends that saw this event. We saw 12 total lights. They were all a couple minutes apart.... it also was not a windy night... it is hard to say it was Chinese lanterns."

Reportedly seen on May 13, 2017

Photo: John Froschauer, Associated Press

"I was watching the Seattle Mariners vs Houston Astros last night. I saw an orb seem to roll out onto the field from between the catchers legs and roll towards the pitcher. As it crossed the pitcher's mound I could clearly see the ORB was in the air! As it crossed the mound it turned a little. Not much wind last night in Houston. The players did not seem to notice it."
Reportedly seen on TV while the Astros hosted the Mariners on April 5, 2017
Source: Texas UFOs

"I was driving home from work in stop and go traffic headed north, and noticed the object towards the right side of my viewing range.  It seemed to move in a spinning or rotating motion, with a hazy, glowing appearance. I had to veer to the right, as the road turned, and I lost sight of it."Reportedly seen on April 5, 2017Source: Texas UFO Sightings  Photo: David McNew, Getty Images

Photo: David McNew, Getty Images

"I was driving home from work in stop and go traffic headed north, and noticed the object towards the right side of my viewing range. It seemed to move in a spinning or rotating motion, with a hazy, glowing appearance. I had to veer to the right, as the road turned, and I lost sight of it."
Reportedly seen on April 5, 2017
Source: Texas UFO Sightings

"My husband and I were sitting in our hot tub watching the sky. I saw a kind of disc shaped object in the sky traveling northward. It had 2 lights that were triangular in shape on either side and a dark center. It also seemed to "wobble" slightly, almost as if it were disturbing the atmosphere or gravity field around it."Reportedly seen on March 19, 2017Source: Texas UFO sightings  Photo: Visions Of America, Getty Images / Universal Images Group Editorial

Photo: Visions Of America, Getty Images

"My husband and I were sitting in our hot tub watching the sky. I saw a kind of disc shaped object in the sky traveling northward. It had 2 lights that were triangular in shape on either side and a dark center. It also seemed to "wobble" slightly, almost as if it were disturbing the atmosphere or gravity field around it."
Reportedly seen on March 19, 2017
Source: Texas UFO sightings

"They spin in two directions simultaneously (a wheel within a wheel,) as they jump and bop around within a reasonably confined area within our view. They go up and down but never in extreme ranges and do not land while we observe them." Reportedly seen on Feb. 26, 2017. Source: Texas UFO Sightings Photo: AP

Photo: AP

"They spin in two directions simultaneously (a wheel within a wheel,) as they jump and bop around within a reasonably confined area within our view. They go up and down but never in extreme ranges and do not land while we observe them." 

Reportedly seen on Feb. 26, 2017. 

The Houston area has been a hotspot for UFOs so far this year, if a website dedicated to tracking UFO sightings in Texas is to be believed. 

Texas UFO Sightings welcomes photos and videos from Texans reporting on alleged UFO sightings as people come across them. The reports range from believable to absurd. 

SIGNING OFF: Popular UFO Sightings Daily website to go dormant 

In one reported sighting, a submission includes a photo from an April 5 Astros game at Minute Maid Park against the Seattle Mariners. The tipster told the website that "an orb seems to roll out onto the field from between the catcher's legs and roll toward the pitcher. ... The players did not seem to notice."

A former NASA scientist is continuing to claim that alien activity is occurring within Saturn’s rings.

Media: GeoBeats

Other reports range from bright, unidentifiable lights at night to strange disc-shaped objects traveling through the sky. There are some suggestions the objects could be mistaken for airplanes flying in and out of Bush Intercontinental and Hobby airports, but people deny these notions vehemently. 

"We had to video this strange object in the sky," wrote one UFO witness in Montgomery County who claimed to see a flying orb on Feb. 26. "It was definitely not an airplane. The object moved from side to side and up and down. It would go from bright to dim and back to bright again." 

MOSCOW REPORT: Russian newspaper claims UFO spotted near sun; NASA nope 

UFO sightings in America have a long history, dating back to at least 1865 reports the American Chronicle.

The Missouri Democrat ran an article that year after interviewing a trapper  who claimed to see a "bright, luminous body" in the skies. The headline for the story was "A Strange story-remarkable discovery." 

Texas UFO Sightings doesn't claim that any of the submitted photos and videos are in fact flying saucers. Instead, the site asks people if they believe the objects could be satellites or military crafts.

Read the stories submitted to Texas UFO Sightings in the gallery above. 

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Filer’s Files #36 – 2017 Dalai Lama Reports ET Is Here - PART I

Lambertville, New Jersey Cylinder –on August 26, 2017.
Lambertville, New Jersey Cylinder –on August 26, 2017.

Filer’s Files #36 – 2017 Dalai Lama Reports ET Is Here - PART I

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In special reports, this week’s files cover: Dalai Lama Reports ET Is Here, Did Aliens Create the Pyramids? Did Secret Cyber Attacks Kill Navy Sailors? Stop the Hurricanes, and Unacknowledged Movie on Netflix

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Tennessee.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, and England in the United Kingdom.

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

George A. Filer III

New Jersey State Director

MUFON Eastern Region Director

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Dalai Lama Reports ET Is Here

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I met with Dr. John Mack at Princeton University and we had a long discussion about his speaking with the Dalai Lama. John E. Mack, M.D. (1929-2004), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, who was interviewed for the documentary film about the Dalai Lama, called, “The Dalai Lama Renaissance.”In the film he speaks about his conversations with the Dalai Lama concerning extraterrestrials and his experience with them.

The Dalai Lama had awareness that the universe is filled with beings of all kinds. In fact when we were here he classified intelligent life in the cosmos in three categories: beings like us that have form that are embodied. Second were beings that have form where they’re not embodied, and the third is beings that have no form.

Dr. Mack explaining a common theme and belief of many as to why they are here. Based on my research, I believe there are multiple beings from multiple star systems and possibly other dimensions and universes. It’s logical to assume that there could be multiple motives, and multiple races out there who are also not at all concerned with us Aliens looking at Earth would see are good at destroying the greenery on Earth.

It’s important to note that Mack believed the ET phenomenon was, without question, real, and so did his funders (which included Lawrence Rockefeller. The people he works with are told by the aliens that they are very aware of our destroying the environment of the planet. The abductees are shown incredibly beautiful images of the planet and then are shown people sowing destruction of the enviroment.

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In 1992, the Dalai Lama said in his explanation of why the alien beings were coming here is that they were disturbed by what was happening on Earth and in some sense we were destroying their home whether on their Earth or physically in another dimension. Coming here as part of a process to wake us up to what we are doing. This has been confirmed over and over again. (Note: This is the message I also received that we must environmentally protect the Earth

Dr. Mack was the founding director of the Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age and was active as a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Prevention of Nuclear War. He began a study of people who felt they were abducted by aliens. In the beginning he felt they had some sort of mental problem. John assured me that abductions were an authentic mystery, and were real evcnts.

A number of different ‘faiths’ or religions have different depictions of extraterrestrial and/or extra dimensional beings. It’s not really clear (to me) under what definition of ours (humanity) Buddhism would fall under, but the Dalai Lama, along with other texts and various teachings are no doubt aware of the fact that there our cosmos is teeming with all kinds of life. Tibet allegedly has an alien base and Dalai Lama’s statements are profound.

“The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy alone exists in the tens of billions, and that’s on the lower end of the scale. And the number of habitable galaxies we can see apart from our own is approximately one hundred billion. That means there are billions of planets within each galaxy, in a sea of galaxies, which seems to be infinite — that we are aware of. To ponder the idea that intelligent extraterrestrial life might exist out there in all that endless possibility only seems natural. How could there not be?

“If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.” — The Dalai Lama Interesting video John Mack Television appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfBODQZTQR0

Did Aliens Create the Pyramids?

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There are almost 200 known pyramids in China.  The first one was reported to the outside world during WWII by an American pilot, James Gaussman.  He was flying over the mountains of China carrying supplies to the Chinese from India.  One of his engines began to fail and he thought the fuel lines were icing up so descended to a lower altitude.  He leveled out in a wide valley and there directly in front of him there was a gigantic white pyramid that shimmered as though it were made of metal. The most remarkable thing was the pyramids’ capstone.  It was a huge jewel-like material that he thought was made of crystal.  He circled the pyramid three times then headed to his home base.  In his intelligence report he stated he saw nothing around it, just a huge pyramid set in the wilderness.    Gaussman ended his report with these questions “Who built it?  Thanks toGeorge Reynolds

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China – A team of Chinese scientists found a mystery pyramid that local legend says is a launch tower left by aliens from space that is 50-60 meters (165-198 ft) tall structure dubbed “the ET relics” – in the western province of Qinghai. The mystery pyramid sits on Mount Baigong, has three caves with triangular openings on its façade and is filled with red-hued pipes leading into the mountain and a nearby salt water lake.

Xinhua said.   Rusty iron scraps, pipes and unusually shaped stones are scattered around the inhospitable and largely uninhabited area.

The pipes are allegedly 150,000 Year-Old that might rewrite Chinese history. In China’s Qinghai Province near Mount Baigong is a mysterious pyramid with three caves that lead to a saltwater lake. Under the lake bed and on the shore are iron pipes ranging in size with some being as small as a toothpick. Someone used the pipes to carry water to or away from the pyramid. What is baffling Chinese historians is that the area wasn’t thought to have been occupied by people until around 30,000 years ago. And according to historians, the humans that were around were nomads, thus making it unlikely that they would have taken the time to install plumbing. That leaves a 120,000 year gap of “who was here laying down iron pipe?”

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To add to the mystery ancient pyramids are also being found on Mars as this NASA image shows.

Did Secret Cyber Attacks Kill Navy Sailors?

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 Ten American sailors are dead after what’s been called an “accidental” collision between an oil tanker and the guided-missile destroyer USS John McCain in the South China Sea on August 22, 2017. Now, security experts are warning that the American public isn’t being told what really happened. The ship was likely the victim of a serious cyber attack? North Korea is essentially at war with the US and they have sophisticated cyber warfare technology to fool the ships involved. >

On Wednesday, the U.S. Navy removed Vice Admiral Joseph P. Aucoin from command of the Seventh Fleet, after four accidents since January — including two deadly collisions in the past two months. On July 29, 2017 the USS Fitzgerald allow itself to be hit by ACX Crystal in open water, killing seven sailors in clear weather conditions and light traffic? But according to Jeff Stuzman, a top cyber intelligence expert and a former information warfare specialist for the Navy, these tragedies may not be accidents at all. Stuzman told the McClatchy news service that he’s particularly suspicious about where the USS John McCain collision occurred, near the crowded Strait of Malacca that connects the Indian Ocean with the South China Sea.

“A Navy destroyer normally has a full navigation team going with full lookouts on every wing and extra people on radar,” he told McClatchy. “There’s something more than just human error going on because there would have been a lot of humans to be checks and balances.” A cyber attack could prevent a ship’s radar, steering, or guidance systems from operating properly. North Korea really has done a lot more damage with their cyber warfare than they’ve ever done with missiles. The North Korean cyber warfare units– Bureau 121 and No. 91 Office, are part of the Reconnaissance General Bureau of North Korea’s military, and have over 6,000 hackers, some of whom are based outside of North Korea, Charles R. Smith reported. These units, he continued, have conducted major bank heists, such as breaking into the security system at the Bank of Bangladesh, and siphoning $81 million through casinos in the Philippines.

And Navy Admiral Michael S. Rogers testified before Congress in May that the U.S. Cyber Command was witnessing a serious escalation in cyber attacks around the world. And while the Navy has been investigating the collision for days, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson refused to debunk claims that cyber sabotage may have occurred, McClatchy reported.

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China seems to be reveling in the disaster. “What goes around, comes around,” Chinese Real Admiral Zhang Zhaozhong wrote in a cryptic social media post. “The USS John McCain has been making a lot of trouble in the South China Sea. The American public and the families of the sailors who lost their lives deserve the truth as many nations have advanced cyber technology. Both Kim and Trump are playing to their bases, he added, but In spite of the stepped up threats from both North Korea and President Trump, Smith does not foresee a military conflict at this time. . North Korea, , does not have the logistics to carry out much of an operation outside of a missile or artillery strike, and for the most part US naval operations are not in place for an attack with several severely damaged ships

Unacknowledged Movie on Netflix

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 Now available on Netflix Worldwide with Major George Filer, Paul Hellyer Canadian Defence Minister, and Dr. Richard Greer etc

Unacknowledged, LLC is thrilled to announce this historic deal with Netflix which reaches over 108 million subscribers thru the streaming service. Dr. Greer and The Orchard worked closely with Netflix to bring Unacknowledged to a wider audience and disclose the shocking issues around UFO secrecy. If you’re a subscriber on Netflix you can now access the film in all countries with subtitles.

“Unacknowledged” focuses on the historic files of the Disclosure Project and how UFO secrecy has been ruthlessly enforced-and why. The best evidence for extraterrestrial contact, dating back decades, is presented with direct top-secret witness testimony, documents and UFO footage. From briefings with the CIA Director, top Pentagon Generals and Admirals, to the briefing of President Obama via senior advisor John Podesta, chairman of the Hillary Clinton Campaign, we take the viewer behind the veil of secrecy and into the corridors of real power where the UFO secrets reside. The viewer will learn that a silent coup d’état has occurred dating back to the 1950s and that the Congress, the President and other world leaders have been sidelined by criminal elements within the military-industrial-financial complex.

Letter from Frank Chille

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 The photos of indeed originals (in color) taken during the same time that Adamski took motion picture footage of the same craft.  KT told me that Valiant Thor was inside this craft however it is not Victor One but a much smaller craft. Madeleine C. Rodeffer has passed.  Did reverse look-ups on her phone number and address and found out she had passed at the age of 86 in West Virginia.

KT does want this info to come out and thinks your website would be ideal to present all the data she sent me. Thanks to Frank Chille

Stop the Hurricanes

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Hurricane Sandy has caused untold billions of dollars in damage and 300 deaths and we saw the “storm coming,” for days in advance. We can send people into space and put vehicles on Mars — why can’t we stop a hurricane in its tracks, before it comes to our major population centers and starts causing heavy damage? I know we can modify the weather if we decide to.

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The National Severe Storms Laboratory NSSL Site Information –   NOAA’s reports, “The most destructive and deadly tornadoes occur from super cells, which are rotating thunderstorms with a well-defined radar circulation called a mesocyclone. (Super cells can also produce damaging hail, severe winds, unusually frequent lightning, and flash floods.) Numerous super cells form into hurricanes.

When I was in Vietnam in 1968, the Air Force extended the Monsoon season by over a month by cloud-seeding with silver iodide crystals using two C-130s and two F-4s on the Ho Chi Minh trail. I encourage the Air Force to use weather controlling tactics to protect American lives and property. Project Stormfury was an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones by flying aircraft into them and seeding with silver iodide starting in 1962 by the United States Government. Initially wind speeds were successfully cut, but it was determined most hurricanes do not contain enough super cooled water for cloud seeding to be effective. The last experimental flight was flown in 1971. Additionally, researchers found that unseeded hurricanes often undergo the same structural changes that were expected from seeded hurricanes. This finding called Stormfury’s successes into question, as the changes reported now had a natural explanation.

I suggest hurricanes can be tamed and potential flooding storms should be spread out. For example, the Chinese, in August of 2008, used 37,000 people to seed clouds aiming for a dry Olympics. Hundreds of teams used anti-aircraft guns to shoot shells of silver iodide into approaching cloud masses and kept Beijing dry.

The most common chemicals used for cloud seeding include silver iodide, potassium iodide and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide). Liquid propane, which expands into a gas, has also been used. This can produce ice crystals at higher temperatures than silver iodide. After promising research, the use of hygroscopic materials, such as table salt, is becoming more popular.  The bad news is that storms and floods still account for almost three-quarters of weather-related disasters, and they are becoming more common. Harvey was unusually devastating because it suddenly gained strength came ashore off Houston and stalled over the city that has virtually no restrictions on land use that made the situation much worse. Cities need to protect flood defenses and wetlands where excess rain can go. The National Severe Storms Laboratory NSSL Site Information –

Even more important is to develop methods to stop the hurricanes from forming. Silver iodide causes the cloud to form more ice crystals, making the hail smaller. And while we don’t yet have the technology to stop rain completely, cloud seeding has been used to put a hold on rainy days.

This has primarily been documented happening in China, which has the largest, national weather modification team on Earth. The stand-alone ministry utilizes planes, rocket launches, and anti-aircraft guns to employ cloud-seed technology, which they credit with the lack of rain during the Olympics in 2008. In 2009, they used 18 cloud-seeding aircraft and 48 fog-dispersal vehicles to ensure a rain-free day for the 60th anniversary of communist party rule.

The goal, rather, is to fill up a cloud with silver iodide and make it rain before it actually passes over the coast. The alternate technique is shooting a coolant made from liquid nitrogen into the cloud, which increases the number of    droplets while decreasing their size — making an acceptable sprinkle.

So why don’t city officials plan to cloud-seed every time there is a flood warning? Clever planning while the hurricane is forming out at sea would just end up raining heavily over the ocean.

Surplus Harvard T-6 single engine aircraft were fitted with racks under each wing containing 32 railroad fuses that were impregnated with silver iodide were ignited individually or all at once, depending upon the threat. In coordination with ground units, the aircraft would lay a plume of silver iodide in front of approaching cumulonimbus clouds (CBs) with noticeable effect. Large, active Cumulonimbus clouds CBs which cause most of the damage were reduced to nothing. Heavy hail storms were also reduced in intensity.

A potential hurricane starts out has a tropical disturbance the first stage of development of a hurricane. It consists of a mass of thunderstorms that have only a slight wind circulation. The tropical disturbance becomes a tropical depression when the winds increase to more than 20 knots or 23 miles per hour.

A TROPICAL DEPRESSION forms when a group of thunderstorms comes together under the right atmospheric conditions for a certain length of time. Winds near the center of the tropical depression are constantly between 20 and 34 knots (23 – 39 mph). Lowered pressure is indicated with at least one closed isobar on a surface pressure chart. Also, the organized circulation of wind in the center of the thunderstorms is detected. This is possible w

When attacking the potential hurricane would be most successful. This is a satellite picture of a tropical depression.
Tropical depressions look like individual thunderstorms that are grouped together.

 

A TROPICAL STORM forms when the maximum sustained winds have intensified to between 35-64 knots (39-73 mph). It becomes better organized and begins to look like a hurricane with a circular shape. At this point, the storm is given a name. Most of the problems from tropical storms come from heavy rainfall. 

This is a satellite picture of tropical storm Charlie in 1998 over Texas. This storm dumped between 5-10 inches of rain over many southern Texas cities. A HURRICANE finally forms when surface pressures continue to drop and when sustained wind speeds reach 64 knots (74 mph). There is also a definite rotation about the eye. 

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C-5 Galaxy aircraft can carry a standard: payload of 240,000 pounds of dry ice or chemicals that could seriously affect a hurricanes eye walls. Maximum payload capacity of the C-17 is 170,900 pounds with a service ceiling of 45,000 feet. Even drones could be used to tame dangerous clouds. Air Weather Service is headquartered at Scott AFB, IL, where I briefed the commander on a regular basis. AWS was restructured as a field operating agency during the reorganization of the former Military Airlift Command now called Air Mobility Command.

As the storm intensifies, the updraft draws in low-level air from several miles around. Some low-level air is pulled into the updraft from the rain area. This rain-cooled air is very humid; the moisture in the rain-cooled air quickly condenses below the rain-free base to form the wall cloud.  (Possible attack point)

Weather Modification Incorporated, in Fargo, ND 58102 •phone: 1-701-235-5500 conducts cloud seeding with small two engine aircraft with good results.

. The Air Force could gain tremendous support from the American people if they could calm the hurricanes, lightning, and flooding deaths. Thanks to NSSL.

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Filer’s Files #36 – 2017 Dalai Lama Reports ET Is Here - PART II

Filer’s Files #36 – 2017 Dalai Lama Reports ET Is Here - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

California Object

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 Chatsworth — I was in the car and I took a photo of an unusual cloud formation on August 27, 2017.

It was only when I looked at the photo on my phone, that I noticed the black UFO in the upper right corner. The UFO was no longer visible.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

’Florida Lights

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Boynton Beach — I we walking my dog and decided to take a photo of the morning sun on August 31, 2017. Upon reviewing the photo I saw a blue dot inside a saucer shaped object that was just to the left of the sun.

My phone has the ability to show movement if you flick the photo. When I did this, I saw that the blue dot was moving downward in a wavy direction. The photo clearly shows the blue dot locates in a saucer-shaped object. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Object

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Palentine — On august 24, 2017, about 9:30 pm,. I took my dog out for a walk and saw a flickering light. Kind of looked like a star but I knew it was not. So I ran in and got my external zoom lens for my iPhone and shot some videos. There were amazing good videos for an iPhone at night. It looked like an orb to the bare eye, but when I zoomed in the camera it made my jaw drop.There was a glowing saucer shaped ship. Hovering but still moving slightly side to side and up and down. It was amazing. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Louisiana Strange Object

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Monroe — It was 1:24 in the afternoon on Sunday, August 13th. I was driving to watch the final day of the PGA event. The interstate runs through some pretty rural areas, two miles before a small town on the way, I see an object hovering about 20 feet above full grown oak trees. I pulled out my iPhone 7 in time to snag a picture of the object. As I passed the object I looked back to get another glimpse of it, but it had vanished before I could do so. I wasn’t acquainted with any of them. I was driving 75 mph and could only get one picture without putting other drivers in danger by not paying attention at the wheel.
I’ve been living here for 26 years, driving up and down that same stretch of interstate, and have never seen anything like it in my life. Nobody can give me a good explanation of what it might be. It’s not balloons because they weren’t moving in the wind, and they weren’t rising or falling. There was no string or rope attached to it. I don’t know what it could be. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Mississippi Lights

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Hernando — I was traveling on I-55 north bound on my way to work on August 27, 2017. I first noticed the lights in the sky about half a mile up ahead on the east side of the interstate in Memphis. As I got closer the lights just stayed there and did not move. It seemed as if the lights where attached to an object that was stationary and not moving. They were about 100 feet above the tree top level. I took my phone out once I got closer and shot a quick video. But once I passed it I could not video anymore. If you watch the video and slow it down, you can see the same lights fly over my car. After that I did not see anything else. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Cylinder

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Lambertville – I took a casual picture of the County Fair amusements using an Apple SE phone which has the live photo feature on August 26, 2017. The live photo shows the object projecting diagonally up to the twilight sky from bottom left to upper right. It was a quick projection motion like a slingshot. I noticed this when reviewing my picture during dinner later that night. I would not be surprised if this picture was a UFO because a few years ago while driving east on Rt. 202 through Buckingham, PA. I had a white comet like light swoop down and up just over my sunroof on my 2003 Neon SXT. I felt the momentum which caused me to look up through my sunroof to see the comet like form. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New York Lights

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Garden City South — I saw glowing orange orbs traveling southwest to northeast on August 26, 2017. They were traveling at approximately the same speed. I had no time to obtain a camera. There was a total of seven (7) of these objects not clustered. Some other individuals and I watched these objects. The woman that was observing these orbs at the same moment as I stated that she and some other people observed these same orange glowing UFO’s a few years previously on a July evening. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com

Oklahoma Light

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Tulsa — I was in my bed because I was unable to sleep on August 31, 2017. The past few nights my daughter and son hadn’t been able to sleep much either. My daughter noticed a bright blinking light. I went outside to see if I could see it better and noticed there were two of them to the east. They were really far apart and I’m not sure what they were.
This is the third incident with weird objects in the sky.
My daughter took a picture of one and also a week later.  I came in and watched the one I could see from my window. I took 19 pictures trying to zoom in to see what they were but my phone kept blurring out with red boxes kept flickering on my screen. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Oregon Light

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Detroit Lake — his odd image was taken during the eclipse. Whatever this is its moving fast. I am guessing it traveled a half to one mile from the picture. The camera shutter speed was 1/250 to 1/500th of a second. One mile in 1/500th of a second equals 1,800,000 MPH.

Note: The witness’s speed estimate of the object is based on an estimate of the distance of the object from the camera lens. I suspect that the object was quite close to the camera lens and could have been an insect.

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Pennsylvania Lights

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Altoona — My mom, my sister and I were driving back to my sister’s apartment when they told me they saw a UFO in the sky on August 13, 2817. I was sitting in the backseat and looked up and sure enough there was a huge triangle hovering over a tall building. It had two red lights in the rear and one white light that would flash on and off. I could see the craft slowly turning and the craft soon vanished. We continued driving and we saw about 3 triangles hovering over the church. We did not stop driving to look however and continued on our way home when we got back to the e third floor balcony we could see another triangle hovering above the tree tops within half a mile of the apartment. Looking very closely I could see dim beams of light coming out from the craft. Also if I remained very silent I could hear a very faint humming coming from the craft. The triangle hovered there for at least four hours, I went to bed, the next morning it was gone. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS

Tennessee Light

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Nashville — After the death of my father in law in 2011, my mother was freaked out by images appearing in her security camera, in Gallatin TN. March 16, 2016, Thereafter, I begin to record and study the phenomenal images, one of which persuaded me that there may very well be life after death; that spirit energy does exist. I began to study spiritual energy and ectoplasm; the unseen as described in the Quran and everything concerning the possibility of extra terrestrial life. I started collecting crystals and meditating to high frequency vibes.

I also began to take photos at dusk – wherever I happened to be. On the 21st of March, in 2016, I took the usual photos of the area around and above my home. As a habit, I resisted using a flash for fear of distorting whatever might be projecting natural light. That night, took photos of what I believed (at the time) to merely be the dark night sky above and behind my home – where I had photographed other phenomena (but not observed with my naked human eye), including tall dark smoky looking images, weird images reflected in a car mirror, and objects floating to the ground like a spider on a web into my ancient trees. It wasn’t until a month or so later that I noticed the two attached photographs, as I was casually flipping through my iPad and deleting bad photos. I’ve taken lots of photos since, but have taken nothing that compares to these!

Attached are photos of the event. Also attached are two comparative photos: one showing the night sky featuring a triangle of stars, one of which appears to have been near the area from which what I call “the lightship” may have been traveling. There is another object in the background of the photos that appears to have been in motion. It does not align with any of the three stars in the triangle.

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Brazil Cylinder

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Curitiba — The photo I attached to this report was taken by a friend of mine during his vacation in Brazil in 2009.
He was aboard a regular speed bus south of Curitiba when he and the passengers saw the flying object standing in the sky at a height of about 500 meters and had an apparent length of 100-150 meters.
The flying object has made a tilt change on its axis to remain stationary.

Canada Light

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Picton, Ontario — Here’s is a coincidence I just discovered that I also have images of the same type of flying white rod

On August 1, 2017, while at camp near Sandbanks Lake Ontario this is located in the Prince Edward County near Picton, Ontario I was filming the clear night sky with my Sony Camcorder after midnight until 1:00 am

The setting on the camcorder is on a night shot – infrared, giving technology a peek we do not see with the naked eye. Later on August 6, 2017 when I reviewed the clips taken Shock and fascinated to see what I have captured These unknown long white flying serpent- like creatures These are known as flying  ‘ Rods ‘PLEASE if this is a insect I would sure like to know the class order type of insect? They are biological and move quite fast in swirling manners as illustrated have over a dozen captures on film here is the photographic evidence to better illustrate the same

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Colombia Object

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Medellin — While vacationing with my family, we visited this busy water park near Medellin on July 1, 2017.

I found a curious shape in this photograph taken from one of the many swimming pools in the park.

I could not see or hear any airplane or helicopter noise at the time. The shape of the object is also quite unusual.

Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com

France Orb

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Audenge — My 11-year-old girl filmed last night in the garden while she was playing. When she watched her video she alerted me to the fact that something crosses the horizon at high speed while everything is idle.
I’ll add an extract because the video is longer.
She is very sensitive and she felt the presence of an entity in a house and became frightened. She was afraid I did not believe her.
I told her “even if you saw a UFO I will believe you, an hour later she showed me her video. Personally I think it is a big bug but why would it go faster than the speed of the video? Thanks to MUFON CMS

Mexico Object

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Zacatecas — “My nephew went on vacation to Mexico. and visited Zacatecas and stood in front of a street sign that stated “ZACATECAS.  He decided to take a picture with him standing next to the sign. So he had his girlfriend take the cell phone picture. After the picture was taken, he ended up posting it on his Facebook page a few days later. I saw the picture on Facebook and noticed something odd in the upper left corner was this round silver object. There are visible power lines underneath the object. But as I zoomed in, I could see there weren’t any wires holding this object up. I remembered from watching TV programs that they showed video of UFO’s that looked very similar to the one in the picture. I’m not sure if it’s a UFO or not. What do you think? C

New Zealand Dusk

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This is the second time I’m reporting this craft as I have a little more understanding of it. My first reported is ”case 84965” this is my update July 7, 2017. I only knew about this craft after looking at my photos so up until then I couldn’t tell you anything. But now I would like to inform the public of my case after down-loading my event on MUFON the following happened. Upon arriving home recently I noticed changes in my table-office. Things had been moved about and papers vanished. This not only happed once but at least 3-4 times within 2 weeks. My flat is always locked. I checked my laptop and usb sticks and a lot of my UFO pictures had been removed of which there were many and good close up ones of ufos. I have excellent camera gear, not only that my printed photos of that craft are missing as well. I took my laptop in to be checked by geeks, there answer was brief. Yes laptop has-is being hacked and my pics had been removed. Back to the craft, I know a high-up person in the us air force. When I showed him the picture; he said, “Yes it’s one of ours, you’re not meant to know about these craft, and what they do.” That’s all he said. Is it one of the DARTS I asked; he refused to answer. So to anybody that’s reading this. I do not know who helped themselves to my laptop, pictures, usb sticks or photos. I do know I am being watched and my ufo pics are stolen from me. So people, beware of our lying governments and the organization that’s involved in UFO cover-ups, Thanks to MUFON CMS

Portugal Object

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Lisbon — I was (as an airline spotter) taking some photos of an unusual visit of a Lufthansa A340 at Lisbon airport from the balcony of my house on July 30, 2017. I took several snapshots of the incoming plane doing its final approach when the camera spotted a very fast object passing behind the aircraft. When downloading the images to the computer, cropped to have a better view, I spotted a dark spot and found that it was not a bird or drone, because of shape. Size, and hi speed. This is cropped photo with the object over the back of the plane. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Russia Object

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Tyumen — I was working at the table when I saw a strange object outside the window on September 1, 2017,   moving at a speed of a hundred kilometers per hour.
I managed to turn on the camera and decided to record the video, there was not time for the pictures, although they had more resolution.

The focal length of the lens is 90 mm diaphragm 5.4.
When the object was clearly visible, the UFO suddenly disappeared from the field of view and the lens. The object moved in one direction and did not turn anywhere, I pointed the camera to the sky where it moved but it was not in it. I turned the lens back and also down and up but the UFO disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK Beams

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London — A year ago my girlfriend was driving my son home to Kent on July 10, 2017, from London. I was in the passenger seat and my son said, “What’s that in the sky?”

On way back to London I see this silver thing in the sky near Bexleyheath and took picture of a crystallized saucer with a blue beam pointing down to street level. Then the next day I started seeing objects near the moon spaces all the time for a week. Then I got picture of a faint lizard man that was scary at first but he was smiling at me? So I just kept seeing low orbit space ships hovering in the sky from July. I have been seeing some alien monsters everywhere in the sky. I have at least 1000 pictures to show you.  But since last week there must be over 10.000 massive industrial type spaceships in orbit. THINK THEY ARE SENDING MASSIVE BLUE BEAMS TO GROUND EVERY NIGHT. My phone is a Sony e3. Let me show you some of the monsters Please tell me what you think is it an invasion or something.  They intimidate the other ships because they are so big and there is so many of them.

I see a face in the clouds and my camera went into error mode it would not start up again. The pictures I took of the human face were gone? Then I see two triangle ships no more 150 feet high just above me. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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Filer’s Files #35 -2017 William Tompkins Passes - PART I

Object flew over petroleum site in Columbia on August 23, 2017.
Object flew over petroleum site in Columbia on August 23, 2017.

Filer’s Files #35 -2017 William Tompkins Passes - PART I

In special reports, this week’s files cover: William Tompkins Remembered, UFOs Ancient Objects of Worship and Adoration, Chilean Navy Spots UFO. , We Are Not Alone, Total Eclipse UFO.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Tennessee.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and England in the United Kingdom.

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William Tompkins Remembered

 

Frank Chille writes, So very sorry to inform you of the passing of William ‘Bill’ Tompkins. I just got off the phone with his loving life-mate and wife Mary, who informed me that Bill left this realm. At 2:30 AM PT on August 21, 2017 it is so difficult to find the words to adequately define the nature of our bonding and friendship.

Bill was selfless in his sharing of the extraordinary events in his life and how astounded, he, himself found it all to be. Yet he lived all of these experiences and recalled the minutest of details.  These accounting which he shared many hours on Jeff Rense’s Program as well as others once he was given – what he affectionately called, “Having Holy Water Thrown. On Him” by his US Navy contacts to come forward with his life story and what happened behind the scenes.

Those who knew and Loved Bill will miss him unquestionably. He was a very giving man who would share tirelessly his passion for getting out the real message of the Battle of Los Angeles, the history of the Secret Space Program and the hidden knowledge acquired during WWII while at North Island Naval Station in San Diego California. Remember, these were all first person experiences and interactions with some of histories most profound and oft times little known activities of noteworthy public figures. There was so much shared in our long conversations that I’d like to bring forward and recount with you folks over the next week or two. A great man of integrity with a genuineness and sincerity that is rarely found has left an indelible imprint on what will be discussed and studied for many years to come.  Bill has given us a treasure trove of knowledge, documents as well as hours of broadcast time to review and consider for the gems he has presented to us. Rest Well & With Love Brother Bill . . . .

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Note: I personally met Bill and spoke with him many times and affirm Frank’s email. Bill Tompkins was embedded in the world of secrecy due to his excellent memory and model building skills he was assigned to Naval Intelligence working for Admiral Rick Abatta. According to Tompkins, his unit had a series of US Naval spies who returned from Germany who had discovered that the Germans were working on advanced wingless aircraft or types of discs apparently with the help of extraterrestrials. He was discharged in 1946. After working at North American Aviation and Northrop, he was hired by Douglas Aircraft Company in 1950, and when they found out about his involvement in classified work, was given a job as a to create design solutions as a draftsman with a peripheral assignment to work in a “think tank”. This work was partly controlled by the Navy personnel who used to work for James Forrestal, who was allegedly assassinated because he was going to publicly reveal what he knew about UFOs. Bill Tompkins was asked to conceive sketches of huge space Naval interplanetary craft designs.

Later, as he became involved in the conventional aspects of the Saturn Program that later became the Apollo launch vehicle, his insight to system engineering resulted in his offering some critical suggestions personally to Dr. Wernher von Braun about ensuring more reliable checkout using the missiles in their vertical position and also some very efficient launch control concepts adopted by both NASA and the Air Force. He also helped design the Apollo Control Room. Our friend will be greatly missed and to pass away just hours before the eclipse is a salute to his life.

 UFOs Ancient Objects of Worship and Adoration

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Bronze Age Art and Culture in Irish Gold from 2000 BC    

Stone Age cave dwellings have drawings of UFOs indicating they have been with us for over ten thousand years.  Following the Stone Age and followed in turn by the Iron Age, the Bronze Age (c.3000-1100 BCE) marked the era in which prehistoric man began mixing copper with tin to produce bronze implements and other precious metal work of great skill and imagination.

. Archeologists claim ancient Jewelry and metalwork are sun discs that ancients used in worshipping the sun. We all know what the sun looks like, and the sun does not have a cross or beams on it or various circles as shown. I suggest the metalwork was trying to depict disc shaped UFOs. Many graves in all parts of the world hold the remains of people holding the discs. Cave drawings, hieroglyphic early statues show God like beings inside the discs. It would be difficult for a god to be inside the heat of the sun.

Belief in the soul and continuation of life after death is part of numerous religions and the very earliest beliefs. The discs seen would represent a viable method for our souls to reach heaven. When Pacific Islanders saw aircraft in the 1930s they started worshiping them. Assuming ancients saw UFOs they likely assumed they were gods and collected souls.

Thus, in Ireland, the “Copper Age” (Chalcolithic era) did not commence until about 2500 BCE and the Bronze Age not until around 2000 BCE. While most of the prehistoric art fashioned by Irish craftsmen was strictly functional, in the form of decorative features added to weapons, cooking utensils, horse-tack, and drinking vessels, the Bronze Age also saw more artistic examples like horn-shaped Celtic metalwork.

Up to 400 tons of copper was mined in the southwest of the country (c.2500-1800 BCE), in County Kerry and Cork, and then alloyed with tin brought over from Cornwall in England. Many bronze items were exported to the Continent from Ireland during this period.

. Ireland was a relatively rich source of gold ore which stimulated an active cottage industry in this precious metal. This is evidenced not only by the considerable number of gold ornaments and artifacts, dating back to the Bronze Age, which have been unearthed in Ireland.

At first, this gold-work comprised mainly simple shapes (like crescents) as well as disks of gold sheet.  

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Hold hair in place (c.800-600 b.c.). National Museum of Ireland

Most cultures have traditions and words to describe the straight, often geometric alignments that ran across ancient landscapes, connecting both natural and sacred prehistoric structures together. Usually the names given to represent these invisible lines are translated to an equivalent of ‘spirit‘, ‘dream‘, or ‘energy‘ paths that are often used by ufos.

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Even though the term ‘ley-line was originally conceived by Alfred ‘Watkins, by 1929, he referred to his alignments only as ‘old straight tracks’ or ‘archaic tracks.’

Ley lines are hypothetical alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths. their existence was suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, whose book ‘The Old Straight Track’ brought the alignments to the attention of the wider public’. wikipedia.en.org

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The following natural and man-made features were suggested by Watkins to be reliable ley-markers: mounds, long-barrows, cairns, cursus, dolmens, standing stones, mark-stones, stone circles, henges, water-markers (moats, ponds, springs, fords, wells), castle, beacon-hills, churches, cross-roads, notches in hills, camps (hill-forts),

There are several developed theories on the purpose of ley-lines such as spirit ways and death roads – (funerary paths. in the various burial mounds discs made from stone or metal are found with the buried bodies, this Hopewell mound was located in Ohio and the discs shown came from a mine 90 miles away. there is certainly evidence that funerary rites were involved at several important locations around the world. the burial of valuable goods alongside funerary remains, placing of remains inside stone chambers underground, that may have been added to pre-existing ley-lines. there is also indication the ufos followed the ley lines. I personally viewed a large ufo over Stonehenge.

A number of rituals and traditions have been associated with the path taken by funerary parties. Watkins mentions the English funerary tradition of stopping at a crossroads and saying a prayer, a custom still practiced to this day.  Other customs involve walking around churches and stones en-route. Processions are not supposed to carry a corpse twice over the same bridge. Another interesting funerary-custom, still practiced into the 20th century was for mourners to carry a pebble and when they passed certain spots, throw their pebbles into a pile of previous mourner’s pebbles. Could the round pebbles represent UFOs?

Sir Norman Lockyer (astronomer-royal) was the first ‘respectable’ person to recognize geometry in the ancient English landscape. He noticed the geometric alignment between Stonehenge, Grovely Castle and Old Sarum. the three form an equilateral triangle with sides 6 miles long, with the Stonehenge-Old Sarum line continuing another 6 miles to the site of the present Salisbury Cathedral, and beyond.

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Aerial  view of Old Sarum

This extremely significant finding shows both that the early megalithic builders were aware of both astronomy and geometry, and combined them deliberately into their constructions. The megalithic tradition in the British Isles can apparently be traced back to at least 3,000 B.C., if not earlier. The Romans themselves, who in their conquests discovered these ‘straight tracks’ in almost every country they subjugated: across Europe, north Africa, Crete, and the regions of ancient Babylon and Nineveh.  

 in 1911, W.Y.Evans-Wentz, mentions the ‘fairy paths’, along which invisible elemental spirits are believed to travel across Ireland. In his book ‘the Fairy Faith In Celtic Countries’, he referred to them as the ‘arteries’ through which the earth’s magnetism circulates. Jacques Vallee writes, in Celtic regions, witnesses described seeing fairies who were accompanied by strange oval objects in the sky, and these beings were also known for abducting people– not unlike modern reports of alien abduction, he pointed out. A ninth century account from the Archbishop of Lyon, France dealt with three people who were said to emerge from a flying ship– villagers thought they came from a magical land called Magonia that was beyond the clouds.

After the 1914-18 World War, Major F.A. Menzies, M.C., a distinguished British army engineer became very proficient in locating earth energy alignments (ley-lines), and also sources of noxious energy. During the 1940’s, his research at ancient megalithic sites showed several astronomical alignments that are believed to have been associated with solar (fire) worship in pagan times.

Alexander Thom found a smaller common unit of measurement in the spiral carvings on certain megaliths. He concluded that the megalithic builders were sophisticated astronomers engaged in a detailed study of the movements of the heavenly bodies, incorporated into their structures over a long period of observation.

We find that the spiral configuration is also carved on ornate antler rods in France, found in Sicily, Spain and not least of all Malta, where some of the most sophisticated spirals adorn the ancient Maltese temple of Tarxien (ca.3300 b.c), one of the oldest stone buildings on earth. Moreover, adjacent to the extensive megalithic site Carnac in Northern France is the impressive structure at Gavr’inis, which is described by Alistair service and Jean Bradbury (m galiths and their mysteries, 1979) as quite simply the finest decorated passage-grave of all,with Newgrange in Ireland its only rival.

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Twenty-three of the twenty-nine slabs which form the walls of Gav’inis are carved with intricate spirals, intersecting semicircles, and other whorled patterns. It is not yet known whether these patterns are purely decorative of whether they have some religious significance. A meaning or a symbolism seems likely, since the spiral forms occur so often in Newgrange one of the World’s oldest structures.

Spirals  are  Neolithic carvings, but the code remains hidden. A spiral may represent a UFOs circling to ascend or descend.

Ornate spirals and patterns also adorn two large stones outside the entrance to Newgrange, perhaps pointing the way to what lies inside – further carvings of grouped spirals on the roof of side cells, and an enigmatic triple spiral illuminated by sunlight flooding down the passage at sunrise the winter solstice.

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Newgrange, Ireland                        Scotland        Tarxian, Malta

Paul Devereux found in his book entitled ‘lines on the landscape’, that wherever the straight landscape line occurred, a key theme connecting them which was a belief in the dead travelling along ‘spirit/funerary paths’, to the ‘otherworld’. ufos are thought to travel along the ley lines picking up the dead spirits. Numerous borrows and burial mounds are located along the ley lines.

Stonehenge Discs

Stonehenge Discs are virtual copies of Irish Discs or did both artisans see similar craft.

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  • The 4,500 year old thin disc of gold is decorated with a cross and circle
  • It is one of just six sun-discs to have been found in Britain and may have belonged to a chieftain of a tribe living in the area around Stonehenge
  • The golden disc is one of the earliest known pieces of metalwork in Britain
  • It was found in a burial mound at Monkton Farleigh in Wiltshire in 1947

One of the earliest known pieces of metalwork in Britain, found just a few miles from Stonehenge, has gone on display to the public for the first time.µ

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Stonehenge

Thought to represent the sun, the gold disc, which was forged around 4,500 years ago at around the same time the main circle of Stonehenge was erected, was discovered in the Bronze Age burial mound of a local chieftain.

The 4,500 year old thin disc of gold is decorated with a cross and circle. It is one of just six discs to have been found in Britain and may have belonged to a chieftain of a tribe living in the area around

Stonehenge. The golden disc is one of the earliest known pieces of metalwork in Britain. It was found in a burial mound at Monkton Farleigh in Wiltshire in 1947.

Archeologists claim these are sun discs claiming ancient men worshiped the sun. The sun does not have a cross or beams on it. I suggest the metalwork was trying to depict disc shaped UFOs. Many graves in all parts of the world hold the remains of people holding the discs. Cave drawings, hieroglyphic early statues show God like beings inside discs. Belief in the soul and continuation of life after death is part of numerous religions. The discs seen would represent a viable method for our souls to reach heaven. DailyMail on Facebook

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Both the Egyptians and Babylonians developed languages that they claim were “given” by the gods and also, even the Egyptian specialists are at a loss as to explain how a backward nomadic people could blossom into a fully fledged literate, technologically advanced, political state in what seems to be the space of 200 years!, which is what I am led to believe happened in the case of the Egyptians, a byproduct of ET intervention? Who knows?  As an aside: We are also talking about a time when a small band of tribesmen in about the same geographic area were having regular visits from “God” in various forms, fiery chariots, pillars of fire, burning bush, and a wheeled vehicle that Ezekiel described in such detail that an engineer from NASA has taken out a patent on its wheels!.

There are thousands of depictions of winged sun discs in Egypt. An interesting correlation with Sumerian culture is that the original Egyptian rendering of Osiris is Ausur.  A striking resemblance to the name Ashur? Then there’s the Hindu God Surya, which bears resemblance to Assyria, the city named after Ashur. Depictions of Surya bear remarkable resemblance to the Greek gods riding on their Chariots of the Sun powered by winged horses.

If you want to get New Age there’s also Ashtar of the Galactic Federation of Light.

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Winged Sun Disc on Ben Ben Stone found in Dashur, Egypt

Note: It is worth noting the “all seeing eyes” of Horus in the image which is a description for the flying Greek god Helios the all seeing.  It is easy to observe the world from on high.

If you lived 2000 years ago and you saw a helicopter, how would you describe it?  Would it make a noise like galloping horses?  Would you describe it as having a scorpion’s tail? In the book of revelation there are what seem to be descriptions and thus prophesy about today’s machines described in the language and imagery of the time.

If we go further back in time there are more incredible descriptions of things such as the chariots of the gods.  The people of the time did their best to describe them by carving them into stone, writing about them, passing down stories about them etc.

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The Faravahar Persepolis

The most interesting of these for me is the winged sun disc, which appears all over the world in ancient times (and in modern times too).  Very similar versions of this symbol appear in various countries in Mesoamerica (Toltec, Aztec, Mayan cultures) and the Middle East (Babylonian, Egyptian, Persian, Hebrew cultures).

In modern day Iran the Faravahar is a national symbol. The Faravahar is a winged sun disc with the primary god Ahura Mazda sitting in it or on top of it who represents a guardian angel.

In present-day Zoroastrianism, the Faravahar is said to be a reminder of one’s purpose in life, which is to live in such a way that the soul progresses towards Frashokereti, or union with Ahura Mazda. It’s the symbol of the state religion of the Persian Empire: Zoroastrianism.

Teams of daring Chinese researchers, digging into the ancient mysteries of the origin of their country, have come to the inescapable conclusion that 12,000 years ago; an interstellar supreme alien race used much of the northern and central Chinese regions as massive Earth bases. Incredible Ancient Asian art depicts alien encounters. China’s pre-history is rife with alien ships, alien beings and alien goings-on.

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An ancient Chinese relief depicts an episode in the countryside when frightening “flying men” terrorized herders.

 Eerily, the ancient artist recorded exactly what UFO investigators would record today.


This is a reproduction of the stone relief found by a scientific expedition of anthropologists during 1957 led by professor Tsj’i Pen-Lai.

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The remarkable relief was discovered within an ancient maze on Jotuo island in Lake Toengt’ing.

The Lolladoff disc plate above was found in Nepal and dated to around 10,000 BCE.

Note what appears to be a saucer-shaped object in the center and a being, resembling an alien at the lower right.

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This old Asian scroll from Japan depicts a Japanese merchant happening upon a small flying saucer that’s landed near a rice field. Look carefully at the writing above the craft.

The column on the right of the image is not Japanese, it’s a representation of the symbols the merchant saw on the craft and described to the artist who then added them to the scroll for accuracy.

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Ezekiel Spots UFO

The religious leader in the Bible, Ezekiel writes about an encounter with a flying object year 592 B.C. near Cheber River Chaldea, in today’s Iraq.

“As I looked, behold a stormy wind came out of the north and a great cloud, with brightness round about it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming bronze.

“And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the form of men, but each had four faces, and each of them had four wings. Their legs were straight and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze. Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands… each had the face of a man in front; the four had the face of a lion on the right side… the face of an Ox on the left side, and… The face of an eagle on the back.”

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 Ezekiel describes hominoids wearing helmets with virtual cameras or helmets on the sides and at the rear, marked with symbols? “And their wings were spread out above; each creature had two wings, each of which touched the wing of another, while two covered their bodies.

“Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living creature’s one for each of the four of them. As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of a chrysolite… being as it where a wheel within a wheel… the four wheels had rims and they had spokes: and their rims were full of eyes round about. And when the living creatures went the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the Earth, the wheels rose.”

“.There was a likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness as it were of a human form. And upward from his loins I saw as it where gleaming bronze, and there was brightness .Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about … And when I saw it… I heard the voice of one speaking, the spirit lifted me up. I heard the sounds of the wheels that sounded like a great earthquake.”

Ezekiel claims he was taken to Tel-Abib where his fellow exiles are”…overwhelmed amongst them seven days Ezekiel encountered a flying craft. Thanks to http://www.ufoevidence.org

Chilean Navy Spots UFO

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The Chilean Navy video of the UFO was captured on November 11, 2014, when the Airbus Cougar AS-532 helicopter was on a patrol mission flying west of Santiago and north along the coast. The helicopter was at an altitude of 4,500 feet with perfect visibility flying at 152 mph.

At 1:52 p.m., the technician was already filming when he noticed an odd-looking flying object in the sky over the ocean and both the Navy captain and technician observed an object 37 miles away. The technician zoomed in with the infra-red while filming in order to achieve better clarity of the object. The pilot made contact with two radar stations that were unable to pick up the object on their radars.

The Chilean Navy handed the video over to the CEFAA, and scientific experts from around the world analyzed the footage. General Bermudez states. “This has been one of the most important cases in my career as director of CEFAA because our Committee had full participation from the scientists of the academic world, the armed forces, and the aeronautic personnel from the DGAC; General Bermudez noted that the final conclusion that was reached after two years of study of this video footage is that the object in question is believed by most to be a UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon).

Where is God,

Apparently There Is More Than One?

Richard Anderson writes, “This is an excellent video made by high school students who don’t say a word …  from a Catholic High School (Archdiocese of Hartford, CT) in response to a Senator’s remark about.”

“Where is God in all the tragedy in the world?”

GOD BLESS!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/jFz4uUfPfN8?rel=0&autoplay=1

Your First Contact

Since childhood, Sheldan Nidle has had access to vital information regarding Earth’s hidden history and amazing data on extraterrestrial science and culture.

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“Your First Contact” has deeply impressed those who have read it. One reviewer has called “Your First Contact” a reference work for the awakening’. Others have found it unique because it adds the galactic realm to the existing body of resources on the Ascension.

We Are Not Alone Show Reminder

Marie Cisneros joins host David Twichell for this installment of We Are Not Alone on Tuesday September 5, 2017: 1 – 2 PM. Marie has always had an interest in the paranormal and UFOs since an early age, having experienced her first sighting at age 10. After an early retirement in 2006, she devoted more time to researching the UFOs, joining MUFON that year and becoming a certified field investigator. For the past year and a half, she has been a columnist for the MUFON Journal with her “One on One” article devoted to spotlighting MUFON investigators and officers around the country and around the world. Remember after the broadcast this show is available as a podcast from this website: click on Talk Shows–Tuesday Forum

“We Are Not Alone” is a two time award winning radio show on WHFR.FM and is a member of the MUFON Radio Network! The show airs the first Tuesday of each month at 1:00 PM EST with new shows each month. Go to http://whfr.fm/ and click on “Listen Now”. All shows are archived at WHFR’s website. Click on “Talk Shows” then the “Tuesday Forum” button and the date of the show. We Are Not Alone is also archived at my website which is http://www.ufoimplications.com/radio_archive.html

Total Eclipse UFO

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Hello Major Filer: I hope you were able to view the recent total eclipse. It was quite a show.

I have attached a general view of totality and a couple of partials with something more of interest to you. Something rectangular in shape darted across some photos taken in burst mode, less than 1 second between #158 and #159.

I have heard quite weird. reports of square and rectangular craft. I guess they did not want to miss the event. Regards Robert M Stiles

Thanks to MUFON CMS

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UFO Sightings in the United States

Arkansas Light

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 I was taking photos of the solar eclipse with my camera on a tripod and looked up to see a jet weaving around and spraying chemtrails. I took out my phone and snapped a photo of the jet and didn’t think of it after that. I went inside and looked at it and there was the object I thought was a star. I zoomed it in and it didn’t look like a star at all. I never observed the object with my eyes nor did I see it in the viewfinder. I saw it only after I was going through the photos on my phone.

I would have noticed the very bright light before I took the photo but it was not there, nor was it there after I took the photo.

Just to the right of the object is also a black spot that was not visible in the sky but it showed up on the photo. Rogers —

Thanks to MUFON CMS

California Object

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 Thermal — I tried viewing the eclipse on August 21, 2017 by making holes on Piece of paper with needle didn’t work so put my phone camera on “shutter” took random pics walking around the yard with phone high above my head.

Hoping to view the eclipse I decided to take more pics at 10:25ish.  Going through my pics I found this and it freaked me out; so I was done with the eclipse after that. Our dog was in a gated area where we have a large black water bucket that had a bunch of bees swarming around it.
I showed my husband the picture and he thinks it’s just an out of focus bee but hell no, I checked every pic I took and yes there were allot of bees, but I found nothing like that in any of the other pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Colorado Lights

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Nunn — I was setting up to record the eclipse of the sun for tomorrow on August 21 when I caught a circle shaped object next to the Sun on August 20, at 11:20 am. At first I thought it was the reflection so I took 9 videos to see if the object would move and it did! I was using my Z740 Cell-phone Camera with a number 12 welding glass plate for welding to record the eclipse with.

I clip number 4 I rotated the camera 90 degrees and the object was not a reflection or it would have moved! In clip 8 the sun was behind a cloud but the planet or ship wasn’t! The Sun was out of focus due to the clouds but the ship/planet wasn’t! In Clip 9 it was gone! I’m not sure why that happened? Can you please tell me what I’m looking at to put my mind at ease? Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Object

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 Coral Gables — During the peak time of the eclipse 2:58 PM, I took a series of pictures using my IPhone and a polarized lens. The first picture I took was horrible so I quickly used my sunglasses to reduce the glare. I took a series of pictures seconds apart and noticed the disk object. When I zoomed in on the object I was surprised with the detail. You can see the solid shape of disk with some type center structure. You can also see some transparent tentacles.

When you look at the series of pictures (that were taken a few seconds apart) you can see that the object is moving away from the sun and was not anywhere near the ground. So it had to be few miles high and very large. I have no idea what this is. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Kentucky Disc

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Louisville — I was driving along the Ohio River in Kentucky on August 8, 2017, when I saw an object in the sky I have been calling them fake stars, low on the horizon. I was close to the house so I went home got my video camera. I first saw the object started filming; zooming in and out when my camera focused onto a cylinder object that projected a triangle shape with a red light. The object shot something down to the ground or up from the ground it looked like a fire beam. I have been seeing these things all summer. Black helicopters are always in the area.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Massachusetts Eclipse Object

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Lancaster — During yesterday’s eclipse I was trying to take pictures to show my students. I was not successful in pointing my camera directly at the sun because there were clouds in the way. So I decided to see if I could find another way to record the event. A few minutes later I decided to run an errand and as I was going to my car I noticed that I could see the eclipse in the reflection of the glass windows of my vehicle.

I took out my phone and snapped some pictures using the window as a filter. (There were no lights on inside my car and I angled the camera so my reflection wasn’t in it). When I was reviewing the pictures later on, I noticed pretty clear images of a UFO in each of them. I was really excited to see what I had captured!! I believe we are not alone and this solidifies my belief!

Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Nevada Object

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Las Vegas — A floating object was above so I took this image then suddenly it disappeared on August 23, 2017.

Object appears to be triangle shaped with large lights or propulsion

system underneath. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Light

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Canilworth — We were driving when a circle reflecting object came out the clouds. I took a picture of it on August 22, 2017.

We spotted it until I reached my destination. It came lower and went back up.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

North Carolina Object

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  Greensboro — I was on a flight to Chicago from Greensboro NC and being I had a window seat by the engine. I decided to take selfies with my phone of the view. I didn’t review any of the photos until two days later. I was having a conversation with a coworker about our flights and started to show him the photos. At first glance I thought there was something on my film and realized something was outside the window following the plane. In the photos you can see at least 3 objects in different positions in each photo. My coworker and I were amazed at the objects zooming in and out trying to make out what the objects could possibly be. Had I seen the photos while still on the airplane I would have tried to get video of these UFO’s? What do you think about the objects? Thanks to MUFON CMS

Ohio Disc

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 Concord Township — My husband and I were watching the eclipse on August 21 between the hours of 2 and 3 pm and snapped some pictures of the eclipse. Some kind of disc shaped object was in the pictures but when we looked up we did not see anything in the sky due to the suns extreme brightness that day.

In two of the pictures you can see a trail in the sky’s atmosphere. We both were taken back by these photos and we both feel we witnessed a UFO sighting that day.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Oregon Object

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Salem — I was taking pictures during the eclipse on August 21, 2017, continuous shots and caught these lights that seem to be in motion in only one shot.

The sun is not blurred so it’s not movement from the camera, it’s the object moving.

I zoomed in on the photo to double check; there is a nice sharp line on the sun…no movement.

Included are the other pics from this burst in order. I didn’t notice it until I downloaded the pics onto my computer.

Thanks to MUFON CMS Note: Likely Planet Venus

Pennsylvania Lights

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 Pittsburgh – I was viewing the solar eclipse through my camera phone taking pictures without looking into the camera.
Three clouds covered the sun for a short time, so I looked direct through the phone and took a pic.

I saw a quite large object gliding through the air and took the camera away to look, and it was gone.
I got a descent picture of it.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Tennessee Object

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 Maryville — We live on a farm next to the Smoky Mountain National Park on August 22, 2017. I was taking a great deal of pictures yesterday to capture the behavior of animals on our farm during the eclipse for my farm life blog. About 15 minutes before the full eclipse I was taking rapid pictures of my goats. When I downloaded my pics today I noticed in one of my shots that had four different interpretations of the shot spanning about 1/100ths of a second intervals – an object in the sky high and smaller. There were NO birds flying at this time. The animals including our chickens and turkeys had all gone to lie down. Then on the next picture the disc shaped object had moved a vast amount and was larger and dropped 300 feet downward. The first picture didn’t have any object, then picture two and three both showed this disc like object and the fourth picture didn’t have it. In 1/100th of a second, it had moved a huge amount. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Australia UFO

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Hobart, Tasmania — We were on vacation on February 27, 2017, when my aunt decided to take a photo at dawn near the place we were staying at.

We only noticed the object in the picture after the fact, so cannot say it was witnessed in person.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Light

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Burke Mountain — The night of July 2nd, 2017, was fairly warm and our bedroom window was left open. Around 3:20 a.M., I heard a thump noise coming from outside. Looking above my neighbors’ house I saw an extremely bright light. It was way too big and bright to be a star and not on the mountain itself. I then took the binoculars and this light was not one but five round lights side by side in a row. The middle light was the largest and most powerful. They each emitted their own beam of light powerful enough to be radiating above, below and on each side of this row of lights. I stared at it for a few minutes more and then around 3:45 a.M., they simply continued to beam, so I went back to bed. It did not move. I woke up my husband who had been sleeping downstairs, not wanting to deal with a hot bedroom. When I explained what I had seen, he casually replied that I had seen a ufo. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Columbia Objects

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I wasn’t the witness, a relative who works at the petroleum site sent me the pictures.

The pictures of a disc were sent on August 23, 2017.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Costa Rica Disc

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Heredia — The day of the event started with a storm, so I went out to see if it was a tornado, but I could see a formation of spiral clouds on January 24, 2016, as if something had made them take a circular shape. Then I left with my with my mother and my partner, I took pictures with my Sony Xperie S cell phone of a diamond shaped object with a kind of motor or reactor in the bottom. You can see an airplane a little below the object. A few days later I saw cigar shaped objects that move slowly and then change direction and move away at very high speed.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Zealand Object

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Queenstown — I was in my house on June 24, 2017 and recently started filming the night sky with my infrared night vision camera 60×60 350m and military laser after wanting to find the unknown for myself.
I was on my balcony filming the night sky as usual in a crystal clear sky on the South Island of New Zealand. Then out of nowhere the disc shaped craft zooms in! I’m trying to get my laser on it but it’s quite difficult when aiming a camera with one hand and a laser with the other. I hit this disc shaped craft with my laser as I’m getting reflections off it!
Just to mention I do live at the bottom of a mountain with surrounding mountains on all sides in the distance’s with an 800 ft deep lake in the middle. (Google Queenstown New Zealand).

United Kingdom Light

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 My dad and sister were sat in the back garden and seen a strange light hovering in the sky on August 23, 2017.

They continued watching this for around 40 minutes and seen this thing change shapes and move around in an odd manner.

They took some photos and stopped looking. Went to look again and it had vanished. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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Couple saw '40 UFOs' hovering over British beach before major military operation

Couple saw '40 UFOs' hovering over British beach before major military operation

AN ELDERLY couple have told of the bizarre sight of 30 to 40 UFOs hovering outside their home the night before a major military operation unfolded.

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Wilsthorpe Incident: There were allegedly 30 to 40 UFOs over the sea.

The husband and wife, aged in their 80s, who have not been named claim to have witnessed the phenomenal sight over Wilsthorpe Beach in East Yorkshire.

Paranormal investigator Paul Sinclair tells their story in a new book he is penning about the Wilsthorpe Incident, which has been branded Britain's new Roswell due to the mysterious military activity seemingly connected to UFO sightings.

The couple's bizarre claims concern the night of September 14 2009 at 11pm.

They lived in one of 30 flats that overlook the sea at Wilsthorpe.

The pair decided to go to bed, however, as the woman went to turn off the lights, she saw a glow outside.

Mr Sinclair said "something told her to go outside" before she opened the front door and looked out to sea where she was amazed to see several glowing UFOs above the coast.

Mr Sinclair said she described them as 15-feet long and eight-feet wide "spaceships over the sea".

He said: "She said there was a huge circle of boomerang-shaped craft.

"She said there were loads - 30 to 40 and the sea below was bubbling, banging and crashing.

"They were silent, but there was electricity going into the sea.

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"Ron (her husband) said it was like a blue and white Christmas tree over the sea. He was frightened and left after ten minutes and put his head under the pillow for the night.

"But, she told me she was not frightened and knew she was never going to see anything like it again in her life."

She stayed for around half and hour before the objects began to "lift out of the circle in pairs at a 45 degree angle until just two were left which shot off straight up."

Yesterday, Express.co.uk exclusively revealed how the couple said the following day the beach was swamped with military.

Two Chinook helicopters full of RAF personnel landed at the beach by the remote hamlet.

Mr Sinclair also spoke with a man who runs a bait shop at Bridlington Harbour, who told him his bait diggers had seen "triangle" craft enter the sea in 2009 over the same period.

Mr Sinclair also spoke with a man who runs a bait shop at Bridlington Harbour, who told him his bait diggers had seen "triangle" craft enter the sea in 2009 over the same period.

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She said there were loads - 30 to 40 and the sea below was bubbling, banging and crashing. They were silent, but there was electricity going into the sea.

Paul Sinclair

He said two of his bait diggers had been on Wilsthorpe Beach the day the couple saw the military operation.

They told of seeing "triangles entering the sea" and later "being surrounded by soldiers."

Separately a man working on a boat at Blythe Park boat compound also confirmed the military presence, he said.

Mr Sinclair submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to find out why the operation took place on September 15.

However, the response he eventually received, said it was just a "routine military exercise" and few other details were provided.

The reply said "no live ammunition was used" and "any explosions heard were controlled detonations of simulated ammunitions."

The response added that it was "one of a number of regular exercises" as part of work to defend the UK, and new locations would often be used with landowners' consent.

Mr Sinclair continues to investigate the case and is trying to obtain historic coastguard reports from the period.

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He believes it is connected to a high level of reported UFO activity along a 25-mile stretch of the East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire coast from Brandesburton in East Yorkshire to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, between May and September 2009.

High levels of military aircraft flying low and circling near his home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, were also recorded that September.

Mr Sinclair said the case did not yet prove a UFO presence, but: "I think the military arrived because of the objects."  

In a post on his Truth Proof Facebook page about the case, he wrote: "Nothing found can prove with any certainty the UFOs were over the sea as an elderly couple claim, or that the black triangles entered the sea in September 2009 like the bait diggers described. 

"All I can do is stack the evidence for and against, either side of the scale."

Some of the sightings have been detailed in Mr Sinclair's first book - Truth-Proof: The Truth That Leaves No Proof, which is available on Amazon.

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Alien hunter offers $100K reward for proof of UFOs

Alien hunter offers $100K reward for proof of UFOs

By Joe Hildebrand, News.com.au

As one great search for alien life comes to a fiery end on the edge of Saturn, another one is about to begin in Australia.

American UFO hunter James Fox is offering $100,000 to anyone who can give him credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity on Earth — including from a claimed sighting in suburban Melbourne he is investigating.

The proposal is perhaps not as crazy as it seems. It comes in the same week that the NASA spacecraft Cassini ends its groundbreaking 20-year mission that recently discovered the Saturnal moon Enceladus had an ocean and potential hydrothermal activity — key building blocks for life.

However, Fox’s quest is at the opposite end of the journey: Any alien life that made it to Earth. And that quest has now come to Australia.

In particular, he is appealing to government officials who might have documentary or photographic evidence but might be fearful of going public because of either the stigma or official repercussions.

“We’re trying to get government officials to come forward and not say ‘Hey, ET has landed’ but there have been events (witnessed) by extremely credible observers of relatively incredible things and we have yet to explain or be able to explain these and to sort of acknowledge some of these incredible events in an official capacity,” he tells News.com.au.

“Coupling along with that, we know through interviews with some of the military men and women we met with, that there are bits of evidence, whether it be radar or some photographs of landing gear, that sort of thing, that have never seen the light of day. And we are encouraging any military or government officials with some of these materials a rather large sum of money — $100,000 and possibly more — if they are willing to come forward.”

Very few of the tips Fox has received make the cut even for analysis.

“We’ve got lots of compelling photographs but nothing where our jaw hit the floor.”

At the moment, Fox says a physicist is currently examining some “physical evidence” — an object found in New Mexico — to see if it might have come from an alien spacecraft. If it is found to be unearthly that could be the first to qualify for the reward.

He is offering complete anonymity and even encourages people to contact him via tradition mail lest electronic communications get intercepted.

But while the documentary maker admits this all sounds very paranoid, he insists he is no tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist. He has no truck with people who got drunk and then woke-up claiming they’d been beamed up for a probing.

Instead, Fox says there are serious questions about classified material the US military is refusing to release. And he says Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta has spoken to him on the record for his upcoming film, voicing frustration that the military refused to fully declassify potential UFO material under Bill Clinton’s administration. He also says that Hillary Clinton was planning to revisit the issue if she had become president.

“He (Podesta) basically said that he was acutely aware of the stigma associated with the phenomenon but he felt that someone in his position needs to come forward and participate to encourage others to do so. And that President Clinton had made efforts and he had many discussions with Hillary and that Hillary was planning on doing another effort of releasing classified documents.”

“He said that the phenomena cannot be explained away … (not) all of it. That it merits further investigation and that other people should take it more seriously.”

Fox says he cannot reveal his financial backers due to obvious sensitivities but that they include two extremely high-profile American public figures and philanthropists.

Fox first made the $100,000 offer among UFO circles during a conference in 2013 but none of the material submitted has yet satisfied him. Now he is publicly announcing the reward to the world ahead of a speaking tour of Australia that kicks off this weekend.

The significance of this is that he will be interviewing people who claim to have witnessed one or more flying saucers in the Melbourne suburb of Westall in 1966.

The infamous “sighting” by some 200 students and teachers at Westall High School was reported in both The Age and The Dandenong Journal and remains a mystery to this day.

The Age report suggested it might have been a weather balloon while others have suggested it may have been an experimental military aircraft.

Fox says that anyone who has credible evidence, such as a rumored photograph of the craft, would be eligible for the $100,000 if that evidence proved to be authentic.

“It would have to be coupled with a piece of pretty substantial evidence. If there was a photograph of the object on the ground, a photograph of the object in the air, if there was a government document, irrefutable, confirming that, that would certainly be considered something that was bona fide,” he says.

“We’re talking to a gentleman now, I can’t say any names, but apparently there was someone who did take a photograph of something very similar to that a day or two prior to the landing so we’re going to meet with him.”

Meanwhile, in the outer reaches of the solar system, a more conventional and expensive search for alien life is drawing to a close.

The extraordinary $3 billion-plus Cassini mission will end on Friday when the spacecraft self-immolates by plunging into Saturn. Having discovered the potential for life, its controllers at NASA and the European and Italian space agencies must now destroy it rather than risk contaminating the very worlds it unlocked with its own alien composition.

And so if someone like James Fox ever evolves on the oceanic moon of Enceladus to search for evidence of UFOs he will be sorely disappointed.

Nobody ever said the universe was fair.

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EXCLUSIVE: Military swamped beach after spate of UFO sightings in new 'British Roswell'

EXCLUSIVE: Military swamped beach after spate of UFO sightings in new 'British Roswell'

A BRITISH RAF squadron was seen by multiple witnesses swarming an area of coastline that had been plagued by mysterious UFO sightings, Express.co.uk can exclusively reveal.

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UFO SHOCKER: Details of a new 'British Roswell' UFO case were revealed by Paul Sinclair (pictured)

The case of the Wilsthorpe Incident is being investigated after a number of witnesses to the bizarre events along a 25-mile stretch of the East Yorkshire and North Yorkshire coast were discovered.

Witnesses reported seeing strange lights, and odd-shaped craft in an area from Brandesburton in East Yorkshire to Scarborough, North Yorkshire, between May and September 2009.

In some cases UFOs were seen entering the sea, and cars ground to a halt as one appeared, it is claimed.

Two Chinook helicopters full of RAF personnel landed at the beach by the remote hamlet of Wilsthorpe, East Yorkshire, on Tuesday, September 15 2009, at the height of the sightings, paranormal researcher Paul Sinclair has revealed.

It was the day after a bizarre late-night sighting of between 30 and 40 UFOs in the same area by an elderly couple whose home overlooked the beach, he said.

The multiple UFOs sighting followed a spate of other strange UFO sightings along the area of coastline, Mr Sinclair told the Outer Limits Magazine 70 Years of the Modern UFO Era Conference in Hull.

The military action and UFOs were witnessed by the couple, two bait diggers, and a boat worker, a seven-year investigation by Mr Sinclair has discovered.

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A pink UFO image sent to Paul Sinclair in 2009 during the height of the sightings.

A local newspaper report written more than a week later on September 24 said up to 50 people had seen the military arrival.

The case began in 2009 as Mr Sinclair recorded several UFO sightings in the area on his former website ILF-UFO.

He also video recorded high levels of military aircraft flying low and circling near his home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, on September 18 that year.

He said: "At least one of the choppers had its rear loading ramp half open and for some reason the men inside were observing me."

It was not until 2014 when he interviewed the couple, aged in their 80s, about their experience in 2009, that he realised it was one of the UK's most important UFO incidents.

The couple lived in one of 30 flats that overlook the sea at Wilsthorpe.

Mr Sinclair told the conference that the woman described seeing on September 14 2009 15-feet long and eight-feet wide "spaceships over the sea".

He said: "She said there was a huge circle of boomerang-shaped craft.

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The remote flat from where the elderly couple claimed to see up to 40 UFOs.

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"She said there were loads - 30 to 40 and the sea below was bubbling, banging and crashing."

The woman said that after about half an hour, the "craft" flew off.

The next day the couple said they saw the military swarming all over the beach.

Mr Sinclair also spoke with a man who runs a bait shop at Bridlington Harbour, who told him his bait diggers had seen "triangle" craft enter the sea in 2009 over the same period.

He said two of his bait diggers had been on Wilsthorpe Beach the day the couple saw the military operation.

They told of seeing "triangles entering the sea" and later "being surrounded by soldiers."

Separately a man working on a boat at Blythe Park boat compound also confirmed the military presence, he said.

Mr Sinclair, who continues to investigate the case, has collated a record of other UFO sightings in the area from at least May 2009 that were either reported in local newspapers or directly to his website.

These include a pink flying saucer and three star-like objects over Flamborough Head, east Yorkshire, on May 10 2009, a huge UFO over Driffield six days later, and a "spherical-shaped craft" seen by nine people at River Head three days after that.

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Sketch of 'crucifix-shaped UFO' seen by retired police man David Holroyd, who saw three UFOs.

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As a collective they tell an amazing story that if true stands with the great UFO incidents of our time.

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He revealed sightings that continued throughout June and July, including spheres of light over the sea, plus triangle, circular, and egg shaped craft.

Witnesses included trawler men and a retired police officer.

He also had reports of cars stopping working after a UFO sighting, including a black triangular object.

The vehicles worked fine again after the UFO flew out to sea.

These included an off-duty police man driving back from Barmston, East Yorkshire, whose car lights dimmed after a large cube-shaped UFO appeared.

Mr Sinclair said witnesses, including himself, also saw unusually high levels of military aircraft in the area at the peak of the sightings spate.

He said RAF helicopters had flown exceptionally low over his home at times, including when he recorded them three days after the military presence on September 18.

He said: "Why were these planes there? What was so important at the time?

"Does that mean there was a UFO presence, no, but it means there was a military presence.

"We still get military aircraft in the area, but you never get them flying over the rooftops like then."

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Picturesque Wilsthorpe beach was mobbed by military after alleged UFO sightings.

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Mr Sinclair submitted a Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to find out why the operation took place on September 15.

However, the response he eventually received, said it was just a "routine military exercise" and few other details were provided.

The reply said "no live ammunition was used" and "any explosions heard were controlled detonations of simulated ammunitions."

The response added that it was "one of a number of regular exercises" as part of work to defend the UK, and new locations would often be used with landowners' consent.

Mr Sinclair said the case did not yet prove a UFO presence, but: "I think the military arrived because of the objects."  

He continues to investigate the case and is trying to obtain historic coastguard reports from the period.

In a post on his Truth Proof Facebook page about the case, he wrote: "When I filmed the helicopters I had no idea there would be any connection to a UFO incident.

"So far it has taken seven years to connect these events, mine and the people who have been bold enough to submit their accounts. 

"As a collective they tell an amazing story that if true stands with the great UFO incidents of our time.

"Nothing found can prove with any certainty the UFOs were over the sea as an elderly couple claim, or that the black triangles entered the sea in September 2009 like the bait diggers described. 

"All I can do is stack the evidence for and against, either side of the scale."

Some of the sightings have been detailed in Mr Sinclair's first book - Truth-Proof: The Truth That Leaves No Proof, which is available on Amazon.

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New Netflix documentary blows Roswell alien conspiracy WIDE OPEN after sensational claims

New Netflix documentary blows Roswell alien conspiracy WIDE OPEN after sensational claims

A SHOCKING new Netflix documentary claims to have unearthed fresh evidence casting doubt on the official narrative surrounding the infamous Roswell UFO incident.

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SpaceX Shares Jaw-Dropping Rocket Booster Fail Video

SpaceX, the space exploration venture headed by Elon Musk, has followed a rocky road to get where it is today. The company has successfully landed a number of orbital rocket boosters back on Earth after launch, a practice aimed at reducing costs and preparing for a mission to Mars. On Thursday, though, the company shared a two-minute video of its failings.

“Long road to reusabity of Falcon 9 primary boost stage…When upper stage & fairing also reusable, costs will drop by a factor >100,” Musk said on his Twitter account.

If SpaceX can reuse its rockets, it stands to save a considerable amount of money. A Falcon 9 rocket booster costs $62 million, but the fuel only costs $200,000 to $300,000 a mission. Reusing the rocket saves the company $46.5 million of the initial cost, or 75 percent.

One YouTube commenter described the video as a real-life version of Kerbal Space Program, while also “the most expensive fail video on the internet.” Considering the initial cost of the rocket and the amount of failures, it’s possibly true.

The video contains a number of failures and successes. Watch the full, high-resolution footage here:

  • APril 2014: first soft water landing.
  • July 2014: second soft water landing.
  • July 2014: breaks apart after tipping.
  • August 2014: engine sensor failed.
  • September 2014: ran out of liquid oxygen.
  • January 2015: ran out of hydraulic fluid.
  • April 2015: sticky throttle valve.
  • January 2016: landing leg collapsed.
  • May 2016: radar glitch.
  • June 2016: ran out of propellant.
  • December 2015: first successful landing.
  • April 2016: first successful droneship landing.

Hopefully, the company gets more successes than failures under its belt as it prepares for a 2023 crewed mission to the red planet.


If you liked this article, check out this video on SpaceX sending astronauts to the moon by 2018.

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What NASA's Website Looked Like When Cassini Began its Journey

Part of what makes the end of NASA’s Cassini mission to Saturn so compelling is that the space agency has all the tools it needs to share the probe’s every discovery right up to its final moments with the rest of the world. NASA has a beautifully designed, in-depth website for Cassini to provide all the updates, the mission has its own Twitter account, and the final hour of the satellite’s existence will be livestreamed on YouTube and Facebook.

That’s what makes it all the more remarkable to look back at what NASA’s website looked like when Cassini first launched back in 1997. The internet was in its infancy then: YouTube and Facebook both wouldn’t be founded until 2005, while Twitter only began in 2006. What web presence Cassini had was limited to NASA’s own site, and it’s unrecognizable from the page in 2017. To realize Cassini is a product of 1997’s technology rather than 2017’s is to be even more humbled by all it has accomplished.

Here’s what greets you when you arrive at the current webpage for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cassini’s home instition.

And here’s the 1997 page, as preserved by the Internet Archive.

Welcome to retro NASA.

Pointing this out isn’t intended as some mere exercise in laughing at the rather basic fact the internet was more primitive in 1997 than 2017. But think about how far technology has come in those 20 years, as shown by the difference between these two websites — and then consider Cassini didn’t get to enjoy any of that.

After all, once Cassini launched on October 15, 1997, there was no way of changing its on-board tech. All the computers at JPL that work with Cassini are now 20 years more advanced than what the probe has to offer. It’s all the more awe-inspiring to realize Cassini achieved all it has considering it was built at a time when NASA, perhaps the world’s single most famous science and research institution, couldn’t manage a website more impressive than this.

Slightly different than 2017's site.

Or a news page that was anything more than a long bulleted list of hyperlinks.

It's nothing but news.

Or this announcement of Cassini’s launch on October 15, which is nothing more than the proverbial wall of text.

Hey, at least it's printer-friendly.

In the grand scheme of things, 1997 isn’t even that long ago. Voyager 1 and 2 are still operating as they slowly leave the solar system, and those both run on tech from the late 1970s. But that’s just it: Every probe we send into space becomes a relic of the time it was first launched, its every success a tribute to how far we had come by that point. That we’ve come so much further since then makes the prospect of Cassini’s successor missions all the more tantalizing.

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The science of Close Encounters: could we use music to talk to aliens?

The science of Close Encounters: could we use music to talk to aliens? 

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Close Encounters of The Third Kind  

Close Encounters of the Third Kind suggested that, while light years and galaxies may separate humble humankind and extraterrestrial life, the universal language of music could transcend such differences. Before the mothership opens its glowing gates in Steven Spielberg’s 1977 classic, its passengers collaborate with human experts on a giddy light and sound symphony.

As the film is re-released in cinemas nearly 40 years later, we seem no closer to making first contact with aliens. But if we did, would music really be the best way to communicate with them? 

Close Encounters of the Third Kind was somewhat timely: on September 5, Nasa launched its Voyager programme, which, four decades later, continues to study the solar system. Jonah Katz, a linguistics professor at West Virginia University, tells The Telegraph, “those records were included 'just in case' the probes somehow ended up being discovered by an extraterrestrial; that wasn't the point of the Voyager mission at all”.

 

Golden Record: Greetings to the Universe contained pictures of life on Earth - such as a woman in a supermarket - as well as music that reflected the diversity of humankind’s creative capabilities. Bach was on there, along with Mozart, Beethoven and Stravinsky, as well as Azerbaijani folk music and Chuck Berry - a controversial choice at the time as some deemed his song Johnny B Goode to be “adolescent”. (Carl Sagan, the Cornell University academic who chaired the record’s creation, argued that there were “a lot of adolescents on the planet”.)

The discs also came with a diagram of how to play them, in the hope that extraterrestrial life might come across the Voyager spacecraft and discover the record. Two years ago, the contents were uploaded online, so all of humankind could listen to them, too. 

In 2008, Nasa beamed a Beatles song towards the North star, but again, this was more for human benefit - a means of celebration of the Beatles' and Nasa's shared anniversaries - than for any aliens.

Nasa engineers installing the 'Golden Record' into Voyager

Nasa engineers installing the 'Golden Record' into Voyager

A couple of years later, scientists from SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, explained at a conference that human art and music would be of far greater interest to alien life than maths or physics, which have previously been used to try and contact aliens.

Douglas Vakoch, the director of interstellar message composition at SETI, said at the time: “If they’re so advanced, we probably can’t teach them about science, but we can tell them what it’s like to be at this precarious point where we don’t know if we’re going to continue as a species.”

But Katz believes that using the fundamentals of mathematics to communicate with aliens is still a better strategy. “[Music] tends to be 'tacked on' to other kinds of messages that represent more fundamental information about the universe and our place in it,” he says. The laws of physics and maths don’t vary between different points of the universe, but the laws of music do. As Katz explains: “There's no particular reason to think that, say, a melody in a major key would be interpretable or pleasant for an alien. The major scales is not even universal across human cultures.”

The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) telescope array 
The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) telescope array in California  CREDIT: REUTERS

Bearing scales in mind, the chances of the aliens using exactly the same 12-note chromatic - as they do in Close Encounters of the Third Kind - is extremely unlikely. “It would be extremely far-fetched for extraterrestrials to coincidentally stumble across the same pitch collections, using the same 12-note chromatic,” says Katz.  

Say, however, that our music was heard by aliens and they managed to make sense of its scale, what could we expect to hear back? Spielberg’s symphony isn’t so unrealistic - theoretically speaking, at least: “We often repeat melodies or harmonies more than once, but alter them in some way on the repetitions,” says Katz. “So maybe if we sent a particular kind of melody or harmonic sequence into space, an alien that 'understands' human music could send back a slightly altered repetition to us to show understanding.”

After that, it’s just a case of waiting to see if they want to invade our planet and turn us into slaves, or not.

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A group called Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence are about to step up the call to ET

A group called Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence are about to step up the call to ET

A SMALL group of stargazing researchers want to be more step up the hunt for ET, but others think it’s a risky idea.

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OUR quest to contact aliens has reportedly created a rift between scientists responsible for handling humanity’s potential communication with ET.

For the past five decades or so, a network of scientists and astronomers have been scanning the cosmos looking for any radio signals or electronic signs left by an advanced alien species.

This network is largely known as SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Despite all their efforts, the cosmic radio waves have remained quiet when it comes to celestial messages from intelligent life.

The cynics among us would probably be quick to invoke the idea of the Fermi Paradox as to why such exercises by SETI are a fool’s errand — but some of the researchers are highly optimistic. The director of the institute, Seth Shostak, has famously predicted we’ll make some sort of contact with an alien species within the next two decades.

Of course, he is way more bullish on this topic than anybody else, and sadly there has so far been nothing to support his optimism.

So a splinter group of stargazing researchers inside SETI wants to be more proactive in the hunt for ET. Instead of just combing the skies looking for signals, they want to go on the offensive and beam messages into the cosmos on behalf of the human race.

The group calls themselves Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or METI, and they are dedicated to designing and sending messages intended for extraterrestrial recipients.

METI plans on beaming out its first messages in 2018.

METI plans on beaming out its first messages in 2018.

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It won’t be the first time we’ve sent messages into space but some worrywarts think it’s a bad, or potentially even dangerous idea to solicit the attention of an unknown and obviously intelligent alien race. Those opposed to the idea include Stephen Hawking who thinks sophisticated aliens might view us like we view bacteria.

But Douglas Vakoch, president of METI International, is dismissive of such concerns.

“One of the reasons people are so afraid of METI is that it seems riskier to do something than to do nothing,” Mr Vakoch told Motherboard over e-mail.

“When we try to evaluate the risks and benefits of an unknown situation where we have little or no actual data, we fall back on the most vivid images that come to mind. But just because the first images of alien contact that come to mind are horrific, that doesn’t mean they’re realistic.”

METI plans on beaming out its first messages in 2018, the only question is how do you communicate with a species we have absolutely no idea about?

Previous solutions to this conundrum have proposed things like sending some form of a purely mathematical language, music, or pictograms in the direction of potentially habitable exoplanets.

The message will almost certainly need to be rooted in maths and physics, since they’re the fundamental language of the universe as we know it and thus are likely to be the only two types of knowledge we have in common. And that is exactly METI’s plan.

“Some of the most prominent messages of the past have tried to cover everything,” Mr Vakoch said. “We’re taking the opposite approach. Rather than trying to communicate everything (about math, science and life on Earth), we are focusing on saying a few things very clearly.”

But the question remains: will anyone, or anything, hear it?

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"They belong here, more than we" - Close Encounters of the Third Kind at 40.

"They belong here, more than we" - Close Encounters of the Third Kind at 40.

As Close Encounters of the Third Kind hits 40 years old, a spoiler-filled look back at its creation and legacy.

"They belong here, more than we" -  Close Encounters of the Third Kind at 40.

Columbia Pictures badly needed a hit in 1977. The studio had yet to be taken over by the might of the Coca-Cola Company and had only a few recent financial successes. It had a critical smash with Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver in 1976, which was produced by the duo of Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips. They had won Best Picture for director George Roy Hill's The Sting in 1974 for Universal.

It would be those two that would bring another emerging directorial talents work to Columbia. Steven Spielberg had just had a massive financial success with Jaws, his third feature film, at Universal Pictures. It was during post-production of his second feature film, The Sugarland Express, in 1973 that Columbia had picked up a new science-fiction project Spielberg had been working on for a while. With the vast acclaim of Jaws, Spielberg would be given unprecedented complete creative control of what would become Close Encounters of the Third Kind, also taking full screenplay credit for the picture -despite numerous other writers working on the project, including Taxi Driver's own Paul Schrader.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind would go on to critical acclaim and financial success -thus saving Columbia from the indignity of bankruptcy- and established Spielberg's artistic voice of childlike wonder and astonishing imagery for years to come. Like Star Wars -released the same year to even bigger financial rewards, the film has established iconic imagery that even those who haven't seen the film recognise. But what does it tell us about Spielberg and our relation to film as an art form?

The film began life as an early amateur feature that Spielberg had made called Firelight as a teenager. Entire sequences from this attempt at a full-length feature were lifted and incorporated into Close Encounters. It was an idea formed at a young age, during a meteor storm that the youthful Spielberg had witnessed.

From this and buoyed by the success and stresses of Jaws, and it's lengthy shoot, Spielberg started putting together the elements of Close Encounters. Working backwards from its iconic climactic sequence, the script was heavily influenced by the song 'When You Wish Upon a Star' from Walt Disney's adaptation of Pinocchio. Under the working title of Watch The Skies -which would later be referenced in the Joe Dante directed but Spielberg produced Gremlins (1984), as a film playing at a movie theatre- the film went into production in 1976. The film's final title would come from famous ufologist J.Allen Hynek, who had written a book called “The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry” that detailed his three points of contact with UFO's. The First Kind: A sighting of one or more UFO's. The Second Kind: Observation of physical evidence of extra-terrestrial visitation. The Third Kind: Contact with one or more extra-terrestrials.

Casting wise, Richard Dreyfuss got wind of what Spielberg was up to as his next project during the shooting of Jaws and campaigned to play the lead role of Roy Neary. Spielberg later conceded that Dreyfuss was perfect for the character as he was "a bigger child than his own children" which perfectly fit with Roy's descent into total obsession with the imagery he sees after his close encounter. One of Spielberg's great celluloid heroes, François Truffaut, plays the role of Lacombe, the French scientist entrusted with extra-terrestrial activities in the United States. Truffaut was ably supported by a young Bob Balaban as his interpreter and by sparse appearances from Lance Henriksen. The crucial roles of a mother called Jillian and her young son Barry are portrayed by Melinda Dillon and Gary Guffey. More so than Neary's own family unit -a post-Young Frankenstein Teri Garr portrayed Ronnie Neary, Roy's wife- these two would act as kindred spirits for Roy's journey in the film.

The journey Roy takes is fascinating and there are numerous interpretations one could read into it. The concept of him being obsessed and plagued by visions of what would eventually be Devil's Tower- the point of contact for the extra-terrestrial life-forms- is one almost of religious enlightenment. Roy is given the clues by an other-worldly force and is possessed enough to follow this whim, to the complete detriment and abandonment of his family unit and earthly responsibilities. Spielberg has since admitted -not being a father at the time of creating this picture- that he regrets the way that Roy takes himself away from his family. But in a spiritualist reading of the events, with him ascending to another world or reality at the end, is there any other way it could have happened? Similarly, Jillian is led to Devil's Tower after the abduction of her son Barry, via perhaps the film's most iconic sequence where bathed in bright light and the possession of a variety of household appliances, he opens the door to them. She is plagued by the exact same visions. The breath-taking cinematography of Close Encounters would win cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond an Oscar and it's likely that this sequence was at the forefront of voters' minds.

There is the nature of these visions too. When Roy starts to have them, he initially draws them. This quickly expands to creating models out of his children's train sets and his food until, in the last straw for his confused and terrified family, he erratically starts taking elements of the outside world in to build Devil's Tower. Shovels full of dirt and fences are thrown in through the window. He himself is almost about to give in when, either in a coincidence or divine intervention, he sees the location on television as a decoy story the government are running to protect their own investigation, which has also led to Devil's Tower. When he begins his journey there are others alongside him trying to reach the Tower, who are also compelled to be there. Some have had an audible communication from the life-forms. This five note communication would go on to become another iconic element and was composed by John Williams, two films into his collaboration with Spielberg which continues to this day.

Another interpretation is one of film making itself. Is making a film not a series of visual ideas that require drawing or constructing before being let loose in reality? Was Spielberg reflecting on the whole creative process? It's an interesting thought.

The idea of the participants in the event being challenged and exerting themselves to be there creates a great tension in proceedings that is then magically lifted with the arrival of the mothership. Infamously, Spielberg and his editor Michael Kahn have reflected that the last 35 minutes of this film were the hardest they have ever had to cut together and Spielberg was not satisfied with his final cut upon its release in November 1977 -Columbia's financial woes leading to pressure for getting the film out there. Kahn would go on to edit every film Spielberg has directed since.

The sequence concludes with Neary stepping onto the mothership and disappearing off into space with it, beginning a new life. With the release of the special edition in 1980, thanks to the massive box office success of the picture, audiences got a glimpse inside that mothership. Spielberg's dissatisfaction with the original cut leading Columbia to let him add some sequences in, as long as they had something massive to promote a re-release with -hence the addition of that moment. He has since admitted to regretting adding it, believing it to be the province of the audience's imagination as to what the interior should look like. It's telling that for the 1998 Collector's edition version of the movie, he kept most of the other changes and excised that sequence leading to his definitive directors cut.

With its financial success, the picture kept Columbia from going under, but more importantly it firmly established Steven Spielberg's cinematic manifesto. More so than Jaws, this is the escapist child-eyed imagery that would later be complemented by E.T. – The Extra-terrestrial and Jurassic Park. The eyes of a dreamer who could express his heartfelt emotions via dazzling effects sequences and technically superior compositions. Forty years on from it's theatrical release –let's not forget, in the same year as George Lucas's Star Wars, which gave us a completely different science-fiction story to be dazzled with- the film retains all of its power and despite the protesting of its inaugurator, is as near perfect and as cerebral as some of the greatest of science-fiction classics.

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Pharaohs of Egypt as Alien Hybrids: Truth or Myth?

Pharaohs of Egypt as Alien Hybrids: Truth or Myth?

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There are wall paintings and petroglyphs from every corner of the earth that seem to indicate we have had visitors from other worlds. Who were they? The old inscriptions depict aliens with halos around their heads and appear to be trying to show something from other worlds. There has also been much talk about alien species being responsible for the pyramids. At first, it was a believed to be a myth, but now, it is more than that. According to the latest and modernized genetic studies, Egyptian Pharaohs were the subject to genetic manipulation through an advanced Alien civilization. The conclusions were discussed because it appears like the builders and designers of these pyramids had a strong connection with ET beings. Of course, these ET beings were originated far away.

While the media is silent about this discovery, it is still a massive game changer for human existence. As stated in the history, if Stuart Fleischmann’s 7-year study of the genomes of 9 Pharaohs were proven correct, then the world’s history books should be changed, and humans should be ready to accept the new understanding of the Universe. The research started when Fleischmann and the scientists submitted the ancient DNA to Polymerse Chain Reaction. In this field, the technique is used to amplify and replicate a single piece of DNA, which provides researchers a clearer picture of a genetic fingerprint.

After the initial test, eight of nine samples had interesting results. Akhenaten, who belonged to the 14th century BC Pharaoh and the father of Tutankhamun, is the ninth example. It was a small fragment of brain tissue at first and was then repeated by bone tissue. With regards to the overall findings, none of the results came back to normal. With all the scientific explanation, it is clear that the Pyramids were not created by stones, water, and sand, but are made by advanced ET Beings.

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The UFO Stories That Remained As Mysteries

The UFO Stories That Remained As Mysteries

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Betty & Barney Hill

Scientists and conspiracy theorists may fight even with the small details due to the opposing viewpoints. Whether you believe the existence of extraterrestrial beings or not, experts came to design to dig at the mysterious and confusing accounts of alien sightings and abduction.

1. Frederick Valentich’s Disappearance

Frederick Valentich

The 22-year old Frederick Valentich disappeared while training flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft in Australia on 21 October 1978. According to Valentich, he could see a huge unknown vessel has four bright landing lights. He cannot confirm the type, but said it passed 1,000 feet overhead at a high speed. However, as soon as he stated that it is not an aircraft, he disappeared. His disappearance coincided with the sighting report.

2. Travis Walton’s Abduction Report

Travis Walton is an American logger who was abducted by an alien on November 5, 1975 while working with a logging crew in Arizona. After five days of working, Walton reappeared. Before his abduction, he and his crew saw a massive golden disc flying shining brightly. The men reported that Walton was below the object when the vessel wobble from side to side, and everything disappeared. UFO historian writes that abduction reports have generated much controversy.

3. Betty and Barney Hill Check in Of Nervous System

Barney and Betty Hill were an American couple who were abducted by aliens in New Hampshire from September 19, 1961, up to September 20, 1961. The Hills were driving to Portsmouth and observed a bright light in the sky. Betty found a “bizarre-shaped” craft flashing the multi-colored lights travelling across the face of the moon.

A Positive Note from John Salter Jr
John Salter Jr has a different view of an alien abduction. The sociology professor was driving in Wisconsin when he had an encounter with the “friendly” aliens. He claims that they were all gripped by amnesia. After regaining consciousness, the humanoid creatures were led away.

There are more registered UFO sightings than you believed them to be, at the same time debunkers are accompanying them.

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ALIEN FLYING SAUCER? Could 1950 black and white 'best ever UFO pic' actually be real?

ALIEN FLYING SAUCER? Could 1950 black and white 'best ever UFO pic' actually be real?

IN THE age of digital telescopic zooms and phone cameras there are now more so-called UFO pictures and videos captured around the globe than ever before.

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This was the most impressive of the two pictures

But despite the advances in technology, most images are arguably still blurred or grainy at best.

Some still say that the best ever UFO caught on camera was one of the first - an image which was shot 67 years ago.

Just two snaps were taken of the "flying saucer" Evelyn and Paul Trent claimed to see as it flew passed their farm ranch between McMinnville and Sheridan in Yamhill County, Oregon, USA.

All those years on and many still believe these were genuine pictures caught on a simple Kodak camera, although last year there were a number of claims saying it was a hoax using a truck wing mirror as the spacecraft.

One who believes it could be a real flying saucer caught on camera is Russ Calaghan.

The UFO researcher made the claim at a UFO conference in Hull on Saturday.

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Taken in 2008, this UFO image is in colour and impressive, but fairly grainy

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He told the 70 Year Anniversary of the Modern UFO Era event: "The Trent photographs are one of the most plausible.

"Some people say you can see the cable dangling from the wire or that the light is different in the two pictures and the sun is in the wrong place.

"But, if you zoom in I can see no cable.

"And it looks pretty cloudy in this one, so I can see no sun - look at the close up - that, to all intents and purposes, is a flying saucer."

UFO mania began in the US in june 1947 when a salesman from Boise in a small plane near Mount Rainier, Washington, said "nine shiny objects" were "flying at high speed near his plane".

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Paul trent photographed at his farm in 1950

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A close up of the 'UFO' in first snap also appears to show what could be connector of wing mirror

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A month later an Air Force colonel revealed the 509th Bomb Group had captured a downed flying saucer near Roswell, New Mexico, with an alien crew.

His report was denied by superiors the next day who said it was a crashed weather balloon, but the Roswell incident took UFO sightings off the scale.

So did the Trents just pull off a fantastic hoax off the back of the craze that started three years earlier, or was this one of or the first UFO ever snapped?

Their story was that on May 11 1950 in the evening, Evelyn Trent walked back toward the  house and saw a "flying metallic disc" moving towards her.

She ran to get husband Paul who grabbed the Kodac and took two photos, before it flew off.

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The local newspaper splash after the Trents first revealed their pictures
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There was no motor, no sound, just the wind. We have been bugged an awful lot.

Evelyn Trent, 1950 UFO witness

After being developed and shown to a friend, the pictures made the front page of their local paper, the Telephone Register, then the story went national, on TV, and later worldwide.

The Trents became celebrities for a time and were flown to New York to appear on TV.  They loaned the photo negatives to the international News Service, whi

the late couple were reportedly never paid for the pictures, and although there were some inconsistencies in their recounting, pretty much stuck to the original account.

The pictures have been analysed ever since with some researchers claiming they must be genuine and others believing they were hoaxed using a hubcap hanging from wire from the telphone line.ch circulated them worldwide, according to Oreganlive.com.

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Evelyn Trent and the couple's son at their home

In 1997, the Trents were interviewed by Bryan Denson of The Oregonian for a 50th anniversary piece and Mrs Trent said the craft made no sound, but a wind descended from the saucer. 

She also claimed they had been "bugged" since the sighting.

In September last year, a number of UFO sites ran a theory that the Trents had photographed a wing mirror from Mr Trent's truck hanging from the washing line to create the UFO effect.

One report on the badufos.blogsot even produced claims to have found a police record of Mr Trent getting a ticket for having a missing side mirror at 6.30pm the day the photo was taken.

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‘Glowing UFO’ spotted in skies above Brit ‘alien’ hotspot in shock footage

‘Glowing UFO’ spotted in skies above Brit ‘alien’ hotspot in shock footage

BAFFLING footage has been released of a mysterious white disc hovering in the sky in one of Britain's UFO hotspots.

By Douglas Patient 

The object appears to expand and contract as it hovers above Bracknell in Berkshire – not the first time the small town has seen unexplainable phenomena

Father-of-one Bob Wise, 49, could not believe his eyes when he filmed the UFO last week.

Wise, a carer who claims to have seen around 15 UFOs, said: "It was really bright and moving slowly."

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WEIRD: A glowing light appeared in the sky above Bracknell in Berkshire

“People laugh at me but things are happening up there”

Bob Wise

"The way it glowed reminded me of burning magnesium.”

He isn’t sure what the object was – though he theorised it may be extraterrestrial or a Government experiment.

Wise added: “I’m open to the possibility that there might be a secret military base nearby.

"The military could be 60 or 70 years ahead in terms of technology," he continued.

"I'm always on the look out because it so fascinating.

"Every time I walk to the shop I stare up at the sky – people laugh at me but things are happening up there."

Bracknell has seen a number of high profile UFO sightings over the years.

In 2013, a pilot was flying 34,000ft over the town when he saw a "bright silver, rugby-ball shaped" craft hurtling towards him.

Photos were taken from the ground of mystery objects after the incident.

This comes as it was claimed aliens were responsible for Ancient Egypt.

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Saturn’s Cassini Orbiter (1982-2017)

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Saturn’s Cassini Orbiter (1982-2017)
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On Friday, Cassini will vaporize itself in Saturn's skies.

The Cassini orbiter is ready to die. Nearly 20 years after it departed Earth, and 13 years after it arrived at Saturn, the workhorse spacecraft is nearly spent. Its fate was orbitally sealed on Monday, when it flew by Titan, Saturn's largest moon, for one last gravity assist. Mission leads dubbed this Cassini's "goodbye kiss."

It was also a kiss of death, as Titan swung Cassini towards its final destination. On Friday at around 6:32 AM ET, the spacecraft will plunge into the ringed gas giant. It will radio back data for as long as possible, capturing a taste of Saturn's atmosphere and the closest visuals of the planet humankind has ever witnessed, before it meteorically vaporizes in the skies, a dramatic end to its tenure as the most productive interplanetary orbiter in decades.

"There isn't anything like Cassini," Jonathan Lunine, a planetary scientist who has worked on Cassini-Huygens from its inception, told me at his Cornell University office in Ithaca, New York. "Now, it's going to be in my mental rearview mirror. It's going to be a strange feeling."

Saturn has beckoned to countless generations of skywatchers, including the orbiter's namesake, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712). Radially, the planet is around nine times larger than our own, and is extremely voluminous, containing enough space to fit over 700 Earths inside it.

Earth/Saturn size comparison.
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It's orbited by 53 confirmed moons, the same verified count as Jupiter. Two of its moons, Titan and Enceladus, have the ingredients for potential life.

It's no wonder that this exotic system has captivated so many people across history, but its far-flung location has been a major roadblock in studying it. Saturn's distance from our planet fluctuates between 1.2 billion kilometers (746 million miles) and 1.7 billion kilometers (one billion miles) at its farthest, which makes Cassini's epic seven-year trek to the system that much more impressive.

Arrow pointing to view of Earth from Saturn (a 2013 Cassini image).
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As a joint project between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Cassini-Huygens mission also has a special legacy as one of the most successful collaborations in space exploration history.

Harnessing the talents of thousands of experts across the world over a timespan of 35 years—from its beginnings in 1982, when the mission was formally conceived, through its launch in 1997, to Friday's self-destruction—Cassini is a multinational and multigenerational labor of love. People have understandably grown attached to this spacefarer, and that personal connection shines through when they speak about it.

"It's really a sad feeling," Nicolas Altobelli, who began working on the mission as a graduate student in 2000, and is now the ESA project scientist for Cassini-Huygens, told me over Skype from Madrid, Spain.

"Cassini has been with me for all my professional life so far," he said. "It's very weird to think that Cassini will not be there somewhere in the sky."

Cassini has undeniably earned its retirement. During its trailblazing adventures, the spacecraft discovered several Saturnian moons, witnessed a rare storm rage in the planet's northern hemisphere, directly sampled the watery plumes of the potentially habitable world Enceladus, collected grains of interstellar dust, and delivered the Huygens lander to Titan's otherworldly surface, sticking the first planetary landing ever achieved in the outer solar system.

In addition to racking up these stunning milestones, the orbiter has snapped around 400,000 pictures of the Saturn system, including breathtaking views of Earth from its distant vantagepoint. It has relayed back terabytes of data about its adopted home, revolutionized our understanding of Saturn, and raised a fresh slate of intriguing mysteries that will have to be resolved by its successors.

Cassini kicked its reputation up a notch during its "Grand Finale," which refers to its 22 "daring dives" between Saturn and its ring system during the past five months.

Cassini image of Saturn's rings.
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Titan has been one of Cassini's priorities during this last act. This strange moon, which is slightly larger than Mercury, shares a particularly special relationship with the orbiter. Hidden under a veil of atmospheric haze, Titan has been the source of intense curiosity since its discovery by the Dutch polymath Christiaan Huygens in 1655. Voyager 1 imaged Titan up close in 1980, and determined the composition, temperature, and density of its atmosphere, which sparked theories that liquid hydrocarbons might be under the moon's cloudy skies. ESA and NASA were inspired to partner Cassini with a lander to expose the tantalizing landscape on the surface.

The result was the ESA-led Huygens lander, which hitched a ride with Cassini to Saturn. After separating from the orbiter in December 2004, Huygens entered Titan's thick atmosphere and successfully parachuted to the ground on January 15, 2005.

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Lunine, an expert on Titan, worked on Huygens, and served as the co-investigator of the probe's Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer instrument, which catalogued the composition of the moon's atmosphere. When Huygens' descent snapshots began to arrive back at Earth, he was with the imaging team at ESA's Space Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany. The portrait Huygens painted of its final destination was "spectacular," Lunine said, somehow both strikingly alien and eerily familiar.

"The images were unworldly; they were like Earth in terms of certain features. Then, in other ways, they didn't look at all like Earth," he recalled. "We saw gullies in the side of a hill that looked like they had definitely been carved by [liquid methane] rainfall."

Concept art of Huygens' landing on Titan.
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The images revealed a world that is weirder than anyone imagined, sculpted by seasonal weather, possible cryovolcanism, and hydrocarbon seas, which are the only stable surface liquids known in the solar system, apart from Earth's bodies of water. Since Huygens' historic landing, and with Cassini's help, scientists have marveled over Titan's "magic" disappearing islands, counterintuitive dune patterns, and electrically charged sand. With temperatures of around minus 179.2 °C (minus 354.56 °F), the moon is far too chilly to support liquid water at its surface, but it may have a subsurface water ocean under its icy crust.

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These unique features, in tandem with Titan's rich organic chemistry, have sparked debates over its potential habitability. No life has been detected there, but then again, Cassini-Huygens was not specifically equipped to assess habitability of any of the other worlds it explored.

Given the adventures that Titan and Cassini have shared, it's fitting that the moon was responsible for tugging the orbiter into its Grand Finale victory lap back in April, before pushing it toward its grave this week.

Titan is not the only Saturnian moon that has divulged its secrets to Cassini. Enceladus, a walnut-shaped oddball measuring only 500 kilometers (310 miles) in diameter, was also thrown into sharp focus. Several close Cassini flybys revealed that the moon was spewing the contents of a subsurface liquid ocean from icy surface cracks, literally spilling its guts out to the solar system.

"Of equal import to what we've learned about Titan is what we've learned about Enceladus," Lunine said. "Before Cassini arrived at Saturn, it was clear Enceladus was peculiar, but we didn't know there was a plume."

Enceladus was a major research target for Cassini from the start, but the surprise discovery of the plume in 2005 left mission leads brainstorming ways to directly sample these jets of moon juice. Cassini got to pull off this maneuver on October 28, 2015, diving through the moon's sprinkler at an altitude of only 50 kilometers (30 miles) above the surface, and collecting a spray of alien ocean particles.

Cassini view of Enceladus plumes.
Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

"What we have seen fantastically demonstrated by Cassini is that those icy moons are able to be geologically active," Altobelli told me. For instance, an April 2017 study co-authored by Lunine and published in Science detected molecular hydrogen and silicates in the plume, which means that the moon is likely to be hydrothermally active. On Earth, hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor support thriving communities of life, so it's plausible that Enceladus has its own biology too.

"It's a very Earthlike environment that could, for all we know, support life," Lunine said.

The prospect of alien inhabitants in the Saturn system is the reason why Cassini must die, as mission leads do not want to risk the spacecraft colliding with worlds that could be contaminated by Earth microbes. So for now, Enceladus' habitability remains an open question to be resolved by future spacecraft, such as the proposed mission Enceladus Life Finder (ELF).

Beyond these exciting revelations about Titan and Enceladus, Cassini provided unprecedented visuals of the known worlds Phoebe, Iapetus, Rhea, Hyperion, and Dione, and discovered six tiny moons called Methone, Pallene, Polydeuces, Daphnis, Anthe, and Aegaeon.

It also used its Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) tool to trap submillimeter dust grains from the interstellar medium. These small particles, primarily composed of calcium, carbon, iron, magnesium, silicon, and sulfur, are direct samples of this extrasolar void, sifted from the abundance of icy particles produced by the Saturn system. As interstellar interlopers, they can be mined for clues about the broader environment from which the solar system was born some 4.5 billion years ago.

"It is the end of a human adventure"

"It's exactly like a deep space survey with a telescope, except instead of photons we are getting dust particles," Altobelli, who is a member of the CDA team, told me. "You get the end product of millions of years of processing in the interstellar medium."

The scope of Cassini's mission ranged from capturing particles smaller than red blood cells to mapping out planetary-scale atmospheric dynamics to testing the general theory of relativity that governs the known universe. Cassini took wide shots and close-ups across several wavelengths and from wildly different angles. It constrained, and in some cases solved, long-debated theories about Saturn and the solar system. It has intimately studied the planet's rings, and during its final months, it captured the view between this icy belt and the gas giant for the first time.

GIF: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Perhaps most importantly, Cassini made a powerful case to further explore Saturn and its dazzling satellites, and address this system's copious unsolved mysteries. Unfortunately, due to budget constraints and changing cultures at NASA and ESA, there's no project of this scale on the horizon to follow up on Cassini's efforts.

"This whole legacy of understanding Saturn to a much greater depth than before actually leads us to a dilemma," Lunine said. "If we want to address all the exciting things that Cassini has discovered, we need a super-orbiter system." Think: Life-sniffing probes to fly through Enceladus' plume, boats and aerial vehicles for Titan, and other accoutrements.

But the next generation of Saturn missions is more likely to be deployed piecemeal to study specific objectives, each one with a budget of under $1 billion (Cassini-Huygens cost about $3.26 billion). Several of these concepts focus on exploration of Enceladus' plumes and Titan's lakes, including Lunine's projects ELF and the aquatic vehicle Titan Mare Explorer (TiME). Other scientists have proposed Titan drones and Saturn atmospheric entry probes.

Many of these proposed missions have been selected for development by NASA, but as of now, they still remain in administrative limbo.

NASA and ESA have sketched out broad details of a possible Cassini-Huygens successor called the Titan Saturn System Mission (TSSM) that would bundle a Titan aerial balloon and the TiME boat concept in with a new Saturn orbiter. But that project is now on hiatus, ousted by a preference for visiting Jupiter and its own icy moons, including Europa. For now, NASA's public manifest of planned Saturn missions remains sadly empty.

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The uncertain future for Saturnian exploration underscores the singular adventure of Cassini-Huygens. Though this trusty orbiter will cease to exist Friday, the years it spent exploring the Saturn system are etched in its dispatches.

"This is really something people should know," Altobelli said, "that these missions are selected for delivering data that can be preserved for future generations. Most of the Cassini data has already been archived. This provides the possibility for anyone in the world to access the data and analyze them." While Cassini will no longer be relaying back information every day, its scientific legacy is far from over.

Moreover, there is a prismatic range of ways to consume, interpret, and represent Cassini's motherlode of data that transcend science. Take the work of Matt Russo, a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, who specializes in converting the resonances of astronomical systems into musical compositions. Inspired by the Grand Finale, he produced scores based on Cassini's trajectory and its observations of Saturn's rings and moons.

Video: SYSTEM Sounds

"Saturn is just jam-packed with resonances," Russo told me over the phone. "Within the ring system, you have every resonance you could want with any of the moons. It's really the most musical object in the solar system."

Such interdisciplinary revelations mined from Cassini will continue, and that is some consolation to the international network of people who are about to lose the emissary they raised through a rocky bureaucratic infancy, blasted into deep space, and guided through an eventful expedition that ended in its atmospheric cremation.

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"This, in some ways, looks almost like a one-of-a-kind thing," Lunine said, "because Cassini has had a much more intimate collaboration than other missions. Every instrument on both the probe and the orbiter was an international collaboration between the US and a European country."

"I hate to think it was a fluke," he continued. "But it was a great example of how, by working together with Europe, the US could do something greater."

The sense of gratitude is echoed by team members from around the world.

"It is the end of a human adventure," Altobelli said. "This type of project, where you have so many people trying to get the best science from the mission—and you have to negotiate—little by little, you get a family spirit developing."

Read More: We Have Strong Evidence Saturn's Moon Enceladus Can Support Microbial Alien Life

On the eve of its death, Cassini has brought people together for one final daredevil maneuver. NASA will livestream the scene at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, where team members have convened for the orbiter's fatal dive.

By the time the last radio signal is received on Earth, at approximately 7:55 AM ET Friday, the orbiter will have joined its astronomer namesake as part of history, and merged with the beautiful planet it has come to know so well.

We're not likely to hear any robotic chattering from the Saturn system for a long time, and the outer solar system will seem lonely. But Cassini-Huygens, even as a mission of the past, will be a beacon of what is possible when Earthlings work together to explore new frontiers. Goodbye and godspeed to a beloved interplanetary trooper.

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NASA Find on Vesta Shows Water Is Everywhere in the Solar System

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In his 1952 short story, “The Martian Way,” science fiction legend Isaac Asimov imagined a future where settlers of the red planet, cut off from Earth’s water supply by an oppressive government, travel to the rings of Saturn to get their hands on precious ice.

As with any sci-fi written more than six decades ago, there are plenty of details we now know are inaccurate, and for a long time it looked like Asimov had erred when his settlers considered all their watery options. Vesta, the second-largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is described in the story as “a two-hundred-mile-diameter asteroid that’s hardly more than a chunk of ice,” very different from the arid space rock astronomers long took it to be.

Now, thanks to the latest round of results from NASA’s Dawn mission, we have learned Asimov was right about Vesta all along. As researchers at the University of Southern California write in Tuesday’s Nature Communications, the probe discovered unusually large smooth regions on the otherwise craggy asteroids. The researchers linked these with higher hydrogen concentrations, which in turn strongly suggest the presence of ground ice on Vesta.

“It was believed to be a dry body,” NASA researcher Essam Heggy, Ph.D. tells Inverse, saying previous evidence for water on Vesta had, at best, been ambiguous. Dawn’s findings erase those ambiguities. It’s just the latest of many findings in recent years showing that water and ice are damn near everywhere in the solar system, adding Vesta to a list that already includes Mars, the moons Europa and Enceladus, and its fellow asteroid Ceres.

“The more we search, the more we find ice and water in the solar system,” says Heggy, “and the more we realize water is not unique to our planet.”

The extent of Vesta's smooth, possibly hydrogen-rich areas

The presence of ice in the asteroid belt is especially intriguing, as collisions between asteroids can knock them out of their orbits and send them hurtling elsewhere in the solar system. Heggy says comets are already known to be a major transporter of water molecules through the solar systems. Asteroids might well have also played a role in distributing water, though he says it’s too early to speculate on what role they might have played in shaping Earth’s supply of water in the primordial solar system.

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited Vesta in 2011-12, and it has since moved on to Ceres. Even half a decade later, researchers are able to pull new observations from the Dawn data that would be impossible to replicate here on Earth.

“There are Earth-based radar observations of the asteroid system, but the Dawn spacecraft was able to explore the roughness on the surface of Vesta at much better resolution than we could do from the Earth,” says Heggy. “And that’s how we were able to distinguish the presence of large, smooth areas on the surface of Vesta.”

Beyond hinting at the presence of water on yet another body in the solar system, having this more precise understanding of Vesta’s surface means it’s even more possible for NASA to plan out a potential future landing on the asteroid. There might not be the same need for water that drove the explorers of “The Martian Way” to consider a trip to the icy asteroid, but this latest data suggests Vesta is very much worth seeing up close.


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Jaar reizen naar Mars? China bouwt replica voor 'glamping' - HLN.be

Jaar reizen naar Mars? China bouwt replica voor 'glamping' - HLN.be

 Bron: The Guardian

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VIDEO Een Marsbasis op een terrein van 95.000 km², waar astronauten getraind worden én waar toeristen welkom zijn. Dat ambitieuze plan wil China uitvoeren op het Tibetaans Hoogland. Kostprijs van dat alles: meer dan 50 miljoen euro.

Een onderzoekscentrum voor de ruimtevaart gecombineerd met een heus themapark, moet het globaal gezien worden. En dat in een landschap dat al enigszins 'Martiaans' aandoet: het Tibetaans Hoogland in Qinghai, niet ver van de meest westelijke punt van de Chinese Muur. 

Jaar reizen
Het echte Mars ligt gemiddeld - de afstand varieert constant - op ongeveer 78 miljoen km van de aarde. Een trip die bijna een jaar in beslag neemt en vooralsnog niet voor het brede publiek gecommercialiseerd is. Maar niet getreurd: straks kan je vanuit Peking een vlucht van iets meer dan zeven uur nemen om te ervaren hoe het leven op de rode planeet zou zijn.

Het gigantische project moet ook glamping-toeristen lokken, zeg maar avontuurlijke kampeerders die graag wat meer luxe willen dan een gewone tent. Glamping zit in de lift in China. De bezoekers zullen er kunnen logeren in gesimuleerde ruimtecapsules om het leven in het buitenaardse na te bootsen. Zo kunnen ze gewichtloosheid aan den lijve ondervinden. Ook al is het koude woestijnachtige terrein dor en ruig, toch zal het er nog altijd iets comfortabeler leven zijn dan op de rode planeet zelf. Daar laat de atmosfeer met amper 0,2 procent zuurstof niet toe vrij te ademen.

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China wil een supermacht worden op het vlak van ruimtevaart. Het smijt er miljarden tegenaan om die doelstelling te bereiken. Tegen 2022 wil Peking een permanent bemand ruimtestation geïnstalleerd hebben. En tegen 2020 wil China een sonde naar het echte Mars sturen. Vier jaar geleden was het land al succesvol met de eerste zachte landing op de maan in veertig jaar.

Het 'Marsdorp' kadert in dat grotere plaatje van Chinese ruimtevaartambities. Het moet zowel de lokale economie aanzwengelen als China's ruimtevaartplannen promoten. Maar niet iedereen is even enthousiast daarover. "Het zal moeilijk zijn voor de Marssimulator om het origineel te imiteren", reageerde Jiao Weixin, professor in de rumtevaart aan de universiteit van Peking. Hij gelooft niet meteen dat het station de Chinese verkenning van Mars erg zal vooruithelpen.

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Astronomen ontdekken voor de eerste keer ooit middelzwaar zwart gat - HLN.be

Astronomen ontdekken voor de eerste keer ooit middelzwaar zwart gat - HLN.be

 Bron: ScienceMag, The Guardian, Telegraph

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Het Melkwegstelsel bevat in het centrum een superzwaar zwart gat.

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ASTRONOMIE Wetenschappers hebben een tot nog toe onbekend massief zwart gat ontdekt nabij het centrum van de melkweg. Het zwarte gat is 100.000 keer groter dan de zon en is het eerste 'middelzware' zwarte gat ooit waargenomen.

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Elk sterrenstelsel heeft in zijn middelpunt een superzwaar zwart gat, dat zo zwaar kan zijn als tien miljard zonnen. Ook 'ons' melkwegstelsel bevat, naast meer dan 100 miljoen gewone zwarte gaten, een superzwaar zwart gat: Sagittarius A. Dat is zo groot als 400 miljoen zonnen en bevindt zich in het middelpunt van het melkwegstelsel.

Wetenschappers hebben nu sterke vermoedens dat ze voor de eerste keer ooit een kleiner broertje van zo'n superzwaar zwart gat hebben gezien, niet ver van Sagittarius A. Het 'middelzware' gat is 'slechts' 100.000 keer zo groot als de zon. In de astronomie werd wel van het bestaan van zo'n gat uitgegaan, maar waargenomen was het nog nooit.

De ontdekking werd gedaan door een team van Japanse astronomen die een moleculaire gaswolk in de ruimte observeerden vanuit de Atacamawoestijn in Chili, waar het grootse astronomische project ter wereld zich bevindt. De wetenschappers vroegen zich af hoe het kon dat het gas zo veel en zo snel bewoog. De enige verklaring bleek een immense zwaartekracht te zijn, die enkel te verklaren was door een zwart gat.

De ontdekking leert wetenschappers mogelijk meer over het ontstaan van superzware zwarte gaten, die mogelijk geboren worden wanneer middelzware gaten samensmelten.

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Zoektocht naar buitenaards leven: sterke radiosignalen ontvangen - HLN.be

Zoektocht naar buitenaards leven: sterke radiosignalen ontvangen - HLN.be

Bron: BBC, The Independent, New Scientist

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Onderzoekers van het project van Stephen Hawking, 'Breakthrough Listen', hebben 15 sterke radiosignalen opgevangen uit een dwergsterrenstelsel dat 3 miljard lichtjaren, oftewel de afstand die het licht aflegt op 3 miljard jaar, van ons verwijderd is.

Dr. Vishal Gajjar, een van de onderzoekers in het project naar buitenaards leven dat in 2016 van start ging, detecteerde op 26 augustus enkele 'fast radio bursts', of snelle radioflitsen die van een plek kwamen die bekend staat als FRB 121102 en zich bevindt in een dwergsterrenstelsel op 3 miljard lichtjaren van ons verwijderd. De plek werd in 2012 ontdekt, toen er ook snelle radioflitsen vandaan kwamen. De 15 nieuwe signalen die men ondertussen van dezelfde bron heeft opgevangen zijn helderder en hun frequentie is hoger dan de vorige signalen. 

FRB 121102 is de enige locatie van waaruit de signalen zich herhaaldelijk voordoen die men sinds de start van het project heeft kunnen identificeren. Men heeft ondertussen al een 20-tal signalen gedetecteerd, maar omdat de signalen slechts enkele milliseconden duren en de telescopen telkens slechts een klein deel van de lucht kunnen waarnemen, kan men moeilijk bepalen waar de radioflitsen zich herhalen.

Er is heel weinig geweten over deze korte uitbarstingen van radiogolven. Volgens sommigen kunnen ze ontstaan uit zwarte gaten of roterende neutronensterren met extreem sterke magnetische velden. Een gewaagdere hypothese is dat de signalen bakens zijn van buitenaardse ruimteschepen.

"Of de snelle radioflitsen nu buitenaardse tekens zijn of niet, ons project verlegt grenzen en verricht baanbrekend onderzoek naar het universum", aldus Andrew Siemion, directeur van het Breakthrough Listen-project, waarvoor de Russische miljardair Yuri Milner 100 miljoen dollar ter beschikking stelde. 

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Is er water op TRAPPIST? Kans op leven opnieuw groter - HLN.be

Is er water op TRAPPIST? Kans op leven opnieuw groter - HLN.be

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Rond de dwergster TRAPPIST-1 cirkelen zeven exoplaneten die qua oppervlakte, temperatuur en massa op onze Aarde gelijken.

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Wetenschappers hebben aanwijzingen gevonden dat er mogelijk water is op de zeven aardachtige planeten bij ster TRAPPIST-1. Dat heeft de Hubble-telescoop ontdekt. Het vergroot de kans dat er leven mogelijk is op de planeten. Al hebben de onderzoekers geen directe bewijzen gevonden.

In de voorbije acht miljard jaar zouden de binnenste planeten liefst twintig keer zoveel water verloren hebben als wat er in de oceanen op onze aarde te vinden is

Op 22 februari van dit jaar maakte NASA, in samenwerking met de Luikse astronoom Michaël Gillon, bekend dat op veertig lichtjaar van ons verwijderd, zeven - tot dan nog onbekende - planeten zweven rond de dwergster TRAPPIST-1. Drie van die planeten zouden levensvatbaar kunnen zijn. Dat impliceert dat de temperaturen die er heersen, de aanwezigheid van water mogelijk maken. Het zijn exoplaneten die qua massa, grootte en oppervlaktetemperatuur erg op onze planeet gelijken.

Het team van onderzoeker Vincent Bourrier, van het Observatorium van Genève (Zwitserland), heeft nu de UV-stralen in het planetair systeem verder onderzocht. Die UV-straling kan ervoor zorgen dat watermoleculen in de atmosfeer uiteensplijten, wat dus de aanwezigheid van waterstof in de atmosfeer bevordert. 

De waarnemingen van de Hubble-telescoop toonden aan dat de binnenste planeten van TRAPPIST-1, TRAPPIST-1b en TRAPPIST-1c (de drie levensvatbare exoplaneten) grote hoeveelheden water kunnen hebben verloren. In de voorbije acht miljard jaar zou het om liefst twintig keer zoveel water gaan als wat er in de oceanen op onze aarde te vinden is.

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Aangezien de UV-straling bij de drie buitenplaneten (TRAPPIST-e, -f en -g) duidelijk zwakker is, doet zich de mogelijkheid voor dat die nog steeds grote hoeveelheden water hebben. Toch kunnen onderzoekers nog geen eenduidige uitspraken doen over het watergehalte van de drie hemellichamen. De astronomen rekenen daarvoor op de opvolger van de Hubble, de James Webb-telescoop die volgend jaar de ruimte ingaat.

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Befaamde ringen van Saturnus blijken minder oud dan gedacht - HLN.be

Befaamde ringen van Saturnus blijken minder oud dan gedacht - HLN.be

Bron: BBC

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WETENSCHAP De bijzondere ringen van de planeet Saturnus zouden zowat 100 miljoen jaar oud zijn. Dat is relatief jong, zo blijkt uit gegevens van ruimtesonde Cassini, die al dertien jaar rond de planeet vertoeft.

Om de zes dagen duikt het tuig tussen de top van Saturnus' atmosfeer en de befaamde ringen. Dat heeft nu unieke data opgeleverd

Als de data kloppen, is dat verrassend nieuws, benadrukken wetenschappers. Cassini zal nog twee keer heel dicht in de buurt van Saturnus komen vooraleer zichzelf op 15 september te vernietigen in de atmosfeer van de planeet. De sonde valt binnenkort namelijk zonder brandstof. 

De voorbije dertien jaar heeft de sonde in de buurt van Saturnus doorgebracht, maar door het nakende einde van haar opdracht nemen wetenschappers er nu risico's mee. Om de zes dagen duikt het tuig tussen de top van Saturnus' atmosfeer en de befaamde ringen. Dat heeft nu unieke data opgeleverd.

Een van de opvallendste onderzoekspogingen is het wegen van de ringen. Als Cassini hun gewicht kan inschatten, zegt dat ook iets over hun leeftijd. Hoe massiever ze zijn, hoe ouder, is de redenering van de wetenschappers. Zij gingen er altijd van uit dat de ringen samen met Saturnus zijn gevormd, zowat 4,6 miljard jaar geleden. 

Die stelling lijkt door de nieuwe data te worden tegengesproken. Ze zouden zowat 100 miljoen jaar oud zijn, wat volgens de wetenschappers "erg jong is, zeker vergeleken met de leeftijd van het zonnestelsel".

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Wetenschapper heeft verklaring voor mysterie van Bermudadriehoek: "Er is helemaal geen mysterie" - HLN.be

Wetenschapper heeft verklaring voor mysterie van Bermudadriehoek: "Er is helemaal geen mysterie" - HLN.be

Bron: news.com.au

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Al talloze schepen en vliegtuigen verdwenen in de beruchte Bermudadriehoek. "Het werk van aliens", zeggen sommigen, "energiestralen van Atlantis", beweren anderen. Maar de Australische wetenschapper Karl Kruszelnicki heeft een simpele, en logische verklaring voor het mysterie. "Er is helemaal geen mysterie."

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De Bermudadriehoek, de driehoek in de Atlantische Oceaan tussen Miami, de Bermuda-eilanden en Puerto Rico, is al tientallen jaren voer voor discussie. Talloze schepen en vliegtuigen verdwenen er en nog meer theorieën deden de ronde, van aliens tot Atlantis. Maar de meest logische verklaring komt toch van Karl Kruszelnicki. 

Karl Kruszelnicki, een Australische wetenschapper en schrijver, meent dat er voor elke schipbreuk of crash een logische verklaring is: een menselijke fout, slecht weer of druk verkeer.

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Kruszelnicki legt aan news.com.au uit dat de Bermudadriehoek een enorme oppervlakte bestrijkt. De driehoek is zo'n 700.000 vierkante kilometer groot, dat is liefst 23 keer groter dan België. Omdat er in het gebied ook heel wat trafiek is, is het niet meer dan logisch dat er ook veel ongevallen gebeuren. "Het aantal schepen dat verdwijnt in de Bermudadriehoek is percentueel niet hoger dan ergens anders."

Vlucht 19

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De verdwijning die de gekte rond de Bermudadriehoek ontketende, was Vlucht 19, een vlucht van vijf Amerikaanse bommenwerpers die verdween tijdens een traingssessie in 1945. Maar ook daar blijkt een logische verklaring voor te zijn. 

Vlucht 19 vertrok op 5 december 1945 vanuit Fort Lauderdale in Miami voor een trainingssessie van twee uur boven de Atlantische Oceaan. Na een radiostilte keerde geen enkele van de vijf vliegtuigen terug. Van de veertien teamleden ontbrak elk spoor. Later die avond verdween ook een vliegtuig dat op zoek was naar de vermiste Vlucht 19. Van de dertien inzittenden werd nooit nog iets vernomen.

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Na Vlucht 19 begonnen talloze theorieën over de Bermudadriehoek op te borrelen. Elk ongeval in de driehoek werd uitvergroot, waardoor het mysterie alleen maar grotere proporties begon aan te nemen. Maar ook Vlucht 19 is te verklaren. "Ten eerste was het weer al slecht, de golven waren toen 15 meter hoog. Bovendien was luitenant Charles Taylor de enige ervaren piloot in het team." 

Mogelijk was piloot Charles Taylor, de leider van het team, de schuldige. "Hij had een kater, hij was vertrokken zonder horloge en hij was in zijn carrière al twee keer verloren gevlogen", zegt Kruszelnicki. Uit radiotranscripties blijkt dat Vlucht 19 de coördinatie kwijt was voor de verdwijning. Volgens de transcripties dacht luitenant Taylor dat zijn kompas stuk was en dat hij zich boven de Florida Keys bevond. Maar uit een latere analyse bleek dat ze boven de Bahama's vlogen. 

Luitenant Taylor zou ook een piloot hebben overruled die het wel bij het rechte eind had. De vliegtuigen trokken zo verder de Atlantische Oceaan in, waar het veel moeilijker is om lichamen of gezonken toestellen terug te vinden.

Vliegende benzinetank

Het vliegtuig dat verdween terwijl het de oceaan afspeurde op zoek naar Vlucht 19, verdween helemaal niet volgens Kruszelnicki. "Er zijn verschillende getuigen die het vliegtuig zagen ontploffen." Het type vliegtuig, een PBM-Mariner, had bovendien ook al de niet zo flatterende bijnaam 'vliegende benzinetank'. 

Het mysterie van de Bermudadriehoek lijkt dus opgelost. Het is een anticlimax, maar er is helemaal geen mysterie, als we Karl Kruszelnicki mogen geloven.

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$100,000 Reward for Evidence of Extraterrestrials on Earth

$100,000 Reward for Evidence of Extraterrestrials on Earth

“It would have to be coupled with a piece of pretty substantial evidence. If there was a photograph of the object on the ground, a photograph of the object in the air, if there was a government document, irrefutable, confirming that, that would certainly be considered something that was bona fide.”

The offer was made this week by James Fox, the director of the UFO documentary Out of the Blue and the follow-up I Know What I Saw. On his first visit to Australia, during which he’s giving lectures and interviewing witnesses from the so-called Westall UFO incident in Melbourne in 1966 (when over 200 students and teachers saw a saucer-shaped UFO descend and take off), Fox announced his offer in an interview with news.com.au.

“And we are encouraging any military or government officials with some of these materials a rather large sum of money — $100,000 and possibly more — if they are willing to come forward.”

“We’ve got lots of compelling photographs but nothing where our jaw hit the floor.”

“He said that the phenomena cannot be explained away … (not) all of it. That it merits further investigation and that other people should take it more seriously.”

What are your odds of seeing a UFO? An accepted probability used in comparison with winning the lottery is 1 in 3 million. What are your odds of convincing James Fox to part with the money? (It’s not his – he says it’s from “two extremely high-profile American public figures and philanthropists.” Tom DeLonge?) That will be tough. Fox has been interviewing military and government officials and UFO witnesses and experts for almost two decades.

Here’s the kind of things he wants to see and it sounds like he knows they’re out there, including from the Westall UFO incident.

“… there are bits of evidence, whether it be radar or some photographs of landing gear, that sort of thing, that have never seen the light of day. We’re talking to a gentleman now, I can’t say any names, but apparently there was someone who did take a photograph of something very similar to that a day or two prior to the landing so we’re going to meet with him.”

Get out your cellphones and start scanning the skies. Check the attic for that piece of metal your weird uncle claimed he got when he was abducted. (Better wear gloves or disinfect it.) Who knows? It could be worth $100,000.

It beats playing the lottery.

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Asteroid 2012 TC4 hurtling towards Earth and NASA is ‘Excited’!

Asteroid 2012 TC4 hurtling towards Earth and NASA is ‘Excited’!

Asteroid 2012 TC4 is heading towards Earth, with NASA claiming it gives their scientists a chance to test its space threat-scanning ability.

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The asteroid has been out of range of telescopes since 2012. But on July 27, 31, and then again on Aug. 5, the approaching asteroid 2012 TC4 was observed again by Olivier Hainaut, Detlef Koschny and Marco Micheli of the European Space Agency using one of the European Southern Observatory's 8.2-meter telescopes at its Very Large Telescope Observatory.

The scientists said they are “excited” by the asteroid, which could be as large as 130 feet in size and is expected to fly past Earth on October 12 and even though scientists cannot yet predict exactly how close it will approach, they are certain it will come no closer than 4,200 miles (6,800 kilometers) from the surface of Earth while NASA said it is "absolutely certain" the rock will miss the planet.

This asteroid was first spotted in 2012 and it was this asteroid that worried people who thought the Mayan ancient civilization has predicted the end of the world.

At this moment the asteroid is approaching at about 30,000 mph (14 kilometers per second), and will continue to brighten - reaching 13th magnitude at time of closest approach.

NASA scientists are planning to use its upcoming October close approach to Earth as an opportunity not only for science, but to test NASA’s planetary defense system. The defense will not fire missiles from Earth into space yet, they want to monitor the asteroid only.

  

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Niece of 'alien abductee' couple Barney and Betty Hill due to speak in Holmfirth

Niece of 'alien abductee' couple Barney and Betty Hill due to speak in Holmfirth

Speakers at UFO conference includes retired US Air Force officer

BY ANDREW ROBINSON

The UFO conference in Holmfirth

An American writer who is convinced that some alien abduction stories are real is a guest speaker at a UFO conference in Holmfirth this weekend.

Kathleen Marden, a leading UFO and abduction researcher, dates her interest in the subject to September 1961 when her aunt, Betty Hill, phoned her childhood home to report that she and her husband Barney had encountered a flying saucer in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.

The couple later claimed they had been abducted by extra terrestrials, an account which is recognised as the first widely publicised report of an alien abduction in the United States.

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Kathleen Marden is among six speakers at the two-day UFO Truth Magazine International Conference which takes place this weekend, September 16 and 17, at Holmfirth Civic Hall.

Conference organiser Gary Heseltine, founder and editor of the UFO Truth Magazine, said: “The conference is fast becoming a regular calendar event for Holmfirth with local shops, cafes, restaurants and hotels and guest houses all benefitting from the hundreds of people who descend on the town from Friday to Sunday from all around Britain and some even from Europe.

He added: “The magazine was founded in 2013 and it was always my hope and intention that it should be based in the town.

Kathleen Marden

“I wanted to bring a late year boost to local businesses and for it to become a regular fixture in the yearly calendar for Holmfirth.”

“This year we have two major speakers from the United States, Kathleen Marden and Robert Jacobs. Kathleen is the niece of the couple Barney and Betty Hill who became famous for being involved in the first well documented ‘alien abduction’ case in 1961.

“Kathleen has become a highly respected UFO author and researcher in her own right.”

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He added: “Robert Jacobs is a retired US Air Force officer and missile specialist who became involved in a major UFO event in 1964 when an Atlas rocket that he was tracking and filming was targeted by a UFO whilst in mid-air causing it to crash to the ground.”

The third overseas speaker is Francisco Correa who is the head of the Exo-politics movement in Portugal. He will reveal a array of Portuguese military and pilot UFO cases.

The UK speakers are Gary, the host and founder of the magazine, author Andrew Johnson and blogger and radio show host, Ben Emlyn-Jones.

There are still a small number of tickets available for this event which has been a sell-out every year to date.

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Does this photograph and shock new evidence solve Rendlesham UFO mystery once and for all?

Does this photograph and shock new evidence solve Rendlesham UFO mystery once and for all?

EXCLUSIVE: The famous Rendlesham UFO did descend from the air and land in woods next to two US military bases 37 years ago - and this image that has surfaced proves it, it has been claimed.

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Rendlesham UFO solved? Russ Callaghan (pictured) may have cracked the case.

UFO researcher Russ Callaghan believes he may have solved the case once and for all - and it has nothing to do with aliens, but a "UFO" capusule made by humans, he insists.

Mr Callaghan revealed his new theory at The Outer Limits Magazine's first ever UFO conference in Hull on Saturday to a stunned audience. 

The Rendlesham legend, which happened around neighbouring bases RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters, near Mildenhall, Suffolk, has been dubbed Britain's Roswell, in a nod to the mystery of the UFO crash said to have taken place outside the town in New Mexico, USA, in July 1947.

The UK suspected alien event saw three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claim a "triangular-shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26, 1980.

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The capsule which Russ Callaghan says resembles the sketches made by witnesses of a triangular UFO.

The men first noticed lights and then a UFO "on the floor", and could not account for a 40 minute period while searching in the woods when their communication systems went "off air".

The three - John Burroughs, Bud Steffens, and James Penniston - later told of feeling "static" as they observed the object's flashing lights and hieroglyphic-like markings.

Former Colonel Charles Halt, 77, the most senior witness, who was base deputy commander at the time, was not present during the first encounter, but was told the next morning and investigated that night after officers shouted: "It's back, the UFO's back."

He went to investigate with a team who found three 1.5inch "impact holes," damage to the canopies of trees and "higher radiation levels" in the "landing" area.

He said they then saw a mysterious object in a field between the woods and a farmhouse with "a red light moving."

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A sketch made by John Burroughs of the triangular UFO he saw.

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The ex-colonel said: ”It came towards us into the forest, moving, bobbing up and down in the trees. It was oval, about 100 to 150 yards away, with a dark centre and red around it.”

He claimed there were "sparks" coming from it and after a minute it "exploded and disappeared."

They then spotted objects in the sky, 3,000 to 4,000ft up.

Due to high interest in the case, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) investigated the case and concluded the lights from Orford Ness lighthouse had been responsible for what was seen over the two nights in terms of lights.

However, this has not satisfied most UFO investigators, failing to explain claims of the UFO being on the ground on the first night.

Mr Callaghan also does not believe the lighthouse was fully responsible for what happened, although he did cast doubt on recent claims from Mr Halt, who insists a real UFO was probably involved.

Mr Callaghan said: "No, it wasn't the lighthouse in my opinion."

Some investigators claim the timing of the lighthouse rotations were in sync with the light sightings observed by Mr Halt on the second night.

But Mr Callaghan was not convinced, saying the old-style analogue recorder used may have had inaccurate timings.

He said: "I don't think they were recording the lighthouse as everyone on the base was aware of where the lighthouse was."

However, Mr Callaghan had spoken with the lighthouse attendant working that night who told him he had met with Mr Halt.

The lighthouse worker said the eyewitness accepted the lights he described did probably originate from the lighthouse.

Mr Callaghan believes if aliens were involved there would have been more mystery observations on the night.

He said: "We are talking about nuclear bases. If something invaded from space they would know about it and there would be a big reaction.

"There was allegedly photos and film taken of the UFO at the time, but we have never seen any of it."

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The ARRS practiced on a mock up. This is the one that was at Bentwaters, it is in Florida now. What is interesting is it was on three legs.

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Now, he believes he may have obtained a photograph of what the men saw.

Mr Callaghan has discovered that the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron was based at RAF Woodbridge at the time of the incident.

The ARRS was a separate unit to Mr Halt's, and would not have to brief them on what it was doing, he said.

This squadron was involved in the recovery of the command module capsules used during the Apollo moon missions and, during the 1980s, the recovery of film sent back to Earth in capsules from spy satellites.

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Rendlesham UFO: Russ Callaghan giving his theory at the conference.

They were recovered by a helicopter once they landed back down, and the ARRS used a mock-up capsule for practice sessions.

Mr Callaghan produced images of the capsule that was actually used at RAF Woodbridge on the night in question.

He said documentary film makers in the Rendlesham case had always left out details about the ARRS crew and the capsule.

He said: "There was no Apollo in 1980, but satellite photographs were taken on film that made entry back to Earth on a mini capsule. 

"The ARRS practiced on a mock up. This is the one that was at Bentwaters, it is in Florida now. What is interesting is it was on three legs."

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Colonel Charles Halt (left) believes aliens visited Rendlesham.

The three airmen who claimed to see the UFO on the first night said the craft was on three legs, and had sketched it as such." 

Mr Callaghan said he discovered the ARRS did a practice run on Christmas Day night 1980, but that it had run into problems, and "the chopper pilot dropped the capsule in Rendlesham Forest”.

He said: "They came back the next night to recover it. This could explain what they men say, but nothing I am saying here is proof positive."

Mr Callaghan believes the recovery operation could explain the subsequent large military presence in the forest, and that the ARRS would not have had to brief Colonel Halt's squadron on what happened.

However, the theory does not explain why the MoD investigation report did not offer this up as an explanation for the sighting and just blamed it on the lighthouse.


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Questions also remain on why the US Veterans' Association agreed in 2015 to pay the medical bills of Mr Burroughs who claims exposure to high levels of radiation during the "UFO encounter" left him with heart problems.

UFO believers in the conference did not appear impressed by the theory.

In a question and answer session with Mr Callaghan, former policeman John Hanson, who recently published The Halt perspective, about the former colonel's involvement in Rendlesham, said: "It is strange colonel Halt would accept what he saw was the lighthouse, because what he was talking about was thousands of feet in the sky."

During a conference break another UFO researcher discussed the claims with Mr Hanson.

He said to him: "I'm an ex-cop, your an ex-cop, and we look at things in a balanced way.

"He's just rubbished everything.

"How do we know he’s not here just to discredit everything?"

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Spielberg offered to aid in United Nation UFO effort during Close Encounters era

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Spielberg offered to aid in United Nation UFO effort during Close Encounters era

Steven Spielberg is really into UFOs. This is not too hard to imagine given movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET: The Extraterrestrial and his mini-series Taken, among others. In a recent interview with journalist Lee Speigel, I discovered that he also lent a helping hand in a 1970s effort get the United Nations to investigate UFOs.

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Devils Tower National Monument. The location of a UFO rendezvous in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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I am currently in Hulett, Wyoming, where I can see Devils Tower National Monument, which was popularized by the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Tomorrow, I will be doing a talk about Spielberg and his history of interest in the UFO phenomena at the Devils Tower UFO Rendezvous which commemorate the 40th anniversary of the movie. In my talk I will be playing a clip of Speigel describing a meeting with Spielberg who was interested in his effort to display the best UFO evidence at a general session of the United Nations.

Speigel was a young New Yorker at the time who had just put together a record album documentary on UFOs. He realized there were a lot of credible people talking about UFOs and pitched the project to CBS Inc., who liked the idea and sent him around the country to interview these people. Among those he interviewed were scientists, politicians, law enforcement and an astronaut, Gordon Cooper, who relayed his personal UFO experience.

Dr. Wernher von Braun and Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper during the MR-3 (Freedom 7) mission on May 5, 1961, which put the first American, Alan Shepard, in space. (image credit: NASA)

Dr. Wernher von Braun and Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper during the MR-3 (Freedom 7) mission on May 5, 1961, which put the first American, Alan Shepard, in space.

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A couple years after producing his record, Speigel heard about an effort to get the United Nations to officially look into the UFO issue. The effort was initiate by Grenada’s Prime minister, Sir Eric Gairy. He decided that what the effort needed was a presentation with the likes of the credible people he had in his record. So, with the confidence of a young New Yorker, he contacted the ambassadors to Granada and offered his services. The government of Granada liked his idea and the event planning began.

Two of the people Speigel enlisted for his presentation were Dr. J.Allen Hynek and Dr. Jacques Vallee. Hynek was a well-known astronomer who acted as a consultant to the U.S. Air Force’s official public UFO investigations from their inception in 1947 to their end in 1969. He then went on to form his own civilian UFO investigation organization, and is arguably the father of modern civilian UFO research. The later, Vallee was a student of his at Northwestern University, and went on to become an author and UFO researcher as well.

Hyenk and Vallee also played important roles in the conception of the movie Close Encounter of the Third Kind. Hynek actually developed the Close Encounters UFO sighting categorization system, and was a consultant for Spielberg on the movie. Vallee, being French, was the inspiration for one of the lead characters in the movie, Claude Lacombe, played by French director Francois Truffaut.

J. Allen Hynek's can be seen in a scene towards the end of the Close Encounters movie.

J. Allen Hynek can be seen in a scene towards the end of the Close Encounters movie.

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“It was amazing,” says Speigel. “One day I got a call from Spielberg’s publicist to see if I wanted to go out to Hollywood to meet with Steven, Dr. Hynek and Dr. Vallee.”

Speigel’s first response was, “Why do you want me there?”

He didn’t think anyone knew who he was. He was told that Spielberg had heard of his upcoming U.N. presentation and he wanted to talk to the group and offer his assistance.

Speigel says the three men did meet with Spielberg to talk UFOs. Understandably, he says it was an amazing experience. At the end of the meeting, Spielberg said his office would help with anything they needed, and Speigel says they did provide some graphics and information that was incorporated in the U.N. presentation.

So what happened with the U.N. and UFOs? Well, on November 27, 1978, Speigel, Hynek, Vallee, Gairy, Cooper and other credible witnesses and researchers did put on a presentation that included photos and video.

As a result, the U.N. passed a decision on UFOs, which holds less weight than a resolution, but is official none the less.

Their decision included this verbiage: “The General Assembly invites interested member states to take appropriate steps to coordinate on a national level scientific research and investigation into extraterrestrial life, including unidentified flying objects, and to inform the secretary-general of the observations, research and evaluation of such activities.”

Meeting at the UN on UFOs. Clockwise from left: astronaut Gordon Cooper, astronomer Jacques Vallee, astronomer/astrophysicist Claude Poher, astronomer J. Allen Hynek, Grenada Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy, UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, Morton Gleisner of the Special Political Committee, Lee Speigel, researcher Len Stringfield, and University of Colorado psychologist David Saunders (Credit: Lee Speigel)


Meeting at the UN on UFOs. Clockwise from left: astronaut Gordon Cooper, astronomer Jacques Vallee, astronomer/astrophysicist Claude Poher, astronomer J. Allen Hynek, Grenada Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy, UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, Morton Gleisner of the Special Political Committee, Lee Speigel, researcher Len Stringfield, and University of Colorado psychologist David Saunders 

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The U.N. was to follow up on Granada’s UFO request the following year, but by then Granada had undergone a coup that unseated Gairy and the subject was dropped.

You can read more about the U.N. event at Lee Speigel’s website, and on various interviews on the Open Minds UFO Radio Podcast. It is also part of my presentation on Official Government UFO Agencies seen below.

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New mysterious signals detected by search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) project

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New mysterious signals detected by search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) project

New unidentified signals from deep space have been detected by the Breakthrough Listen project, an attempt to detect evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization. Similar signals have been detected before, but more signals than ever were recorded recently, and, according to the Breakthrough Listen project, an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization has not been ruled out as a potential source.

The type of signals recently observed are called fast radio bursts (FRBs). They are extremely short bursts, but also extremely bright. Most of the FRBs detected thus far have been singular events, which is not so mysterious. Scientists often discover mysterious radio transmissions, but they are typically due to cosmic events. What makes the newly discovered signals mysterious is that they repeat, unlike a cosmic event which sends out one large signal when the event takes place.

FRB 121102 was discovered on November 2, 2012, giving it its name. In 2015, it was found that FRB 121102 repeats, then in 2016 it was traced back to a galaxy billions of light years away. However, scientists know of nothing in that area which would be creating a repeating signal.

On August 26 of this year, scientists with Breakthrough Listen used the Green Bank Telescope to observe FRB 121102. They recorded ten 30-minutes scans and detected 15 bursts. This may not sound like much, but up until this point there had been less than two dozen FRBs recorded.

The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Radio Telescope (GBT) focuses 2.3 acres of radio light. It is 485ft tall, nearly as tall as the nearby mountains and much taller than pine trees in the national forest. The telescope is in a valley of the Allegheny mountains to shield the observations from radio interference. (Credit: National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Radio Telescope (GBT) focuses 2.3 acres of radio light. It is 485ft tall, nearly as tall as the nearby mountains and much taller than pine trees in the national forest. The telescope is in a valley of the Allegheny mountains to shield the observations from radio interference.

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So what could these FRBs be?

“Several explanations for FRBs have been suggested,” explains a recent article in Newsweek. “One is a cataclysmic event, such as a neutron star collapsing into a black hole. But such an event would produce only one burst and therefore does not explain the repeating pattern of FRB 121102. Another possible explanation is that they are coming from a young, highly magnetized neutron star, but so far nothing like this has been detected in this region of space.”

After acknowledging the mystery of the discovery, Newsweek goes on to conclude, “Despite widespread speculation, the possibility of the signals coming from an advanced alien civilization has been largely ruled out.”

Of course, not everyone agrees. A recent article in New Scientist covers some ideas scientists have come up with which would include potential alien sources for the signals.

Breakthrough Listen is part of what is called the Breakthrough Initiative. It is financed by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner. While Musk, Bezos and Bigelow have decided to spend their fortunes on building spacecraft and/or habitats for humans to get to and inhabit space, Milner has decided to look for aliens.

Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking announcing the $100 million Breakthrough Initiative in London. (Photo via Breakthrough Initiative)

Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking announcing the $100 million Breakthrough Initiative in London in 2015.

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There are thee parts to the Breakthrough Initiative. The first two announced were Listen and Message. The first aimed at listening for signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, much like what the SETI Institute is known for. The second, Breakthrough Message, entailed a $1 million prize for the creation of messages to send to space. However, the messages will not be sent, probably because Stephen Hawking, an associate of the initiative, has expressed concern about what will happen if aliens find out we are here.

The third, Breakthrough Starshot, plans to send hundreds of tiny spaceships to the closest star system, Alpha Centauri, to look for signs of life. These spacecraft would largely consist of sails that are pushed along by lasers here on Earth. Once they reach their destination, the little spacecraft will have a few hours to record video and whatever other telemetry they will be able to obtain. The data will then be sent back to earth via lasers. However, because we are talking about such vast distances, the data will take four years to reach Earth, even at the speed of light.

Artist depiction of Breakthrough Startshot. (Credit: Breakthrough Initiatives)

Artist depiction of Breakthrough Startshot.

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Coincidentally, or not, the New Scientist article explains that this type of spacecraft could be responsible for the FRBs.

The article posits:

…maybe they are using these powerful radio beams to power light sails, which push spacecraft along by bouncing light off a large, reflective sheet. A sail that requires a beam as powerful as an FRB would be much bigger than any we’ve ever considered making on Earth. Such an alien light sail could carry almost a million tonnes – in contrast, the International Space Station only weighs about 420 tonnes.

If there were many extraterrestrial civilizations with colossal alien cruise ships, there could be many powerful radio beams sweeping through the sky, each following the path of a sail. When the beam’s path intersects with the Earth’s, we’d see a bright but fleeting burst of radio waves.

The Breakthrough Initiative’s press release includes this bit of speculation In their recent announcement on this latest discovery. According to the Breakthrough Initiative press release, “Possible explanations for FRBs range from outbursts from rotating neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields, to more speculative ideas that they are directed energy sources used by extraterrestrial civilizations to power spacecraft.”

So, in the end, we can not be sure what is causing the FRBs, but an alien civilization is not being ruled out. At least not by everyone, especially the Breakthrough Initiative.

A technical summary of Breakthrough Listen’s discovery has been releases in an Astronomer’s Telegram, and will be released in further detail in an upcoming article in a scientific journal.

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UFO News, Mysterious Space Signals and Mars – September 5, 2017

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UFO News, Mysterious Space Signals and Mars – September 5, 2017

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Open Minds UFO Radio: Alejandro and Martin discuss the latest UFO news, including the recent detection of mysterious signals from space and humanity’s plans for Mars. No special guest in this episode, besides the always special ufo news presenter Martin Willis of Podcast UFO. Martin and Alejandro talk at length about some of their favorite topics that have recently made headlines and/or were featured articles on OpenMinds.tv. This includes the discovery of signals from space by an organization searching for intelligent extraterrestrial life. Signals that some scientists speculate could be the result of advanced extraterrestrial technology. We also discuss Mars, Alejandro’s visit to the set of the National Geographic Channel’s Mars TV show set, and current plans to get humans to Mars within the next 10 years!


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Canadian UFO researcher and author to teach UFO continuing education course

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Canadian UFO researcher and author to teach UFO continuing education course

Chris Rutkowski is a science writer and UFO researcher. He has authored several books on UFOs and has also taught courses on the subject. Next month Rutkowski will begin teaching his latest UFO course for the continuing education program for the St. James-Assiniboia School Division in Winnipeg.

UFOs are still somewhat of a taboo topic and often met with ridicule in the world of academia, so UFO courses are few and far between. However, ridicule is something Rutkowski combats well with a well developed sense of humor. And, being a science writer, Rutkowski also understand how to bring credibility to a topic that is often misunderstood.

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“I often get asked, ‘What is really going on? And where do I get good information?,’” says Rutkowski. “Such courses are a way to educate the public about a very confusing subject.”

Although the public’s curiosity is healthy when it comes to UFOs, it was Rutkowski’s relationship with the St. James-Assiniboia School Division that helped get the course created.

“I have been teaching courses on writing for several years. They asked me if I had ideas about other courses I could do and I suggested a course on UFOs,” explained Rutkowski. “Because my latest book came out a few months ago and is about a major UFO case in our area, and because it’s been getting a lot of attention, they knew about it and thought it would make a good special interest class.”

Rutkowski’s latest book, co-authored with Stan Michalak, is titled When They Appeared. It is about a famous alleged UFO encounter in 1967 near Falcon Lake, which is a bit less than 100 miles east of Winnipeg. According to the book’s description, the incident was the most investigated UFO event in Canada’s history.

The story is very odd. On May 20, 1967, Stefan Michalak, father of the co-author, says he came across a strange craft. It had some sort of vents on the side. It took off and in the process injured Stefan, who suffered from burns on his chest in the pattern of the vents on the craft.

Stefan Michalak's sketch of the strange craft he encountered.

Stefan Michalak’s sketch of the strange craft he encountered.

Stefan Michalak was treated at a hospital for burns to his chest and stomach that later turned into raised sores on a grid-like pattern.

Stefan Michalak was treated at a hospital for burns to his chest and stomach that later turned into raised sores on a grid-like pattern.

The news soon got ahold of the story and it became a media sensation.

“It just flipped our lives over,” Stan recently told CBC News. “It took several years before it finally died down.”

Rutkowski's UFO class will be held at John Taylor Collegiate. (Credit: John Taylor Collegiate)

Rutkowski’s UFO class will be held at John Taylor Collegiate.

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I asked Rutkowski if he felt teaching the public about UFOs was important. He replied, “Yes, in that there is a real thirst from the public for information about UFOs beyond tabloid news.”

As a science writer, and someone who takes the UFO phenomenon seriously, I also asked what approach Rutkowski takes in presenting the course material.

“I include some discussion on critical thinking and how to evaluate UFO reports and claims,” Rutkowski replied. “I do acknowledge that there is much we don’t know, but that there is much we do.”

If you live in the Winnipeg area, you can register for Rutkowki’s UFO course, which starts September 25, 2017,  at www.localcourses.com, and you can find the book at the publisher’s website, McNallyRobinson.com. To find out more about his work, you can follow Rutkowski’s UFO Blog at uforum.blogspot.com.

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UFO witness spots large “spherical object” during hike in Portugal

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UFO witness spots large “spherical object” during hike in Portugal

A hiker in Portugal took some photos of an odd object recently. The witness submitted the photos and report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) yesterday. According to the report, the sighting took place on August 20, 2017.

Picture submitted by witness. Click to enlarge. (Credit: MUFON)

Picture submitted by witness. Click to enlarge.

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Second picture submitted by witness. Click to enlarge. (Credit: MUFON)

Second picture submitted by witness. Click to enlarge.

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The witness says the object appeared to be the size of a helicopter. The witness described it as an “irregular sphere” in the title of the report, and as a spherical object in the description. However, the odd shape that can be seen in the photos is difficult to describe.

Close-up of object in first picture. (Credit: MUFON)

Close-up of object in first picture.

Close-up of object in second picture.

Close-up of object in second picture.

The witness wrote, verbatim:

I was hiking on the mountain and taking pictures when I observed a spherical object the size of a helicopter. It flew silently and too fast, so I immediately started shooting. While doing this I lost the visual reference of the object. When I returned to look at the sky in search of the first object appeared a second object at the same speed and following the same path. The objects traveled from SE to NW at a speed of over 300 km / h, at an altitude of 100m to 200m and at a distance of less than 3km from the observation point.

Map of area submitted by witness. Click to enlarge. (Credit: MUFON)

Map of area submitted by witness. Click to enlarge.

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Mylar balloons can look odd floating around and are often reported as UFOs. However, they are typically a regular shape and smooth. Could this one be a half deflated balloon? If so, it would not have been as large as a helicopter as the witness describes, and it does look to be rather large in the photo.

The marker shows the location of Vila Real, the area the witness says the sighting took place. (Credit: Google Maps)

The marker shows the location of Vila Real, the area the witness says the sighting took place.

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The vast majority of UFO sightings turn out to be mundane objects, but once in awhile there are sightings that are much more difficult to explain. MUFON conducts investigations on sightings submitted to their website, and if they share their conclusions, we will let you all know. Meanwhile, others will likely chime in and we will try to keep you up to date with any discoveries. Please feel free to share your thoughts on the object in the comments below.

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Lights dance around the sky in Arizona UFO video

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Lights dance around the sky in Arizona UFO video

A witness in Arizona submitted a video to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) of lights dancing around the night sky. The video is very impressive, but the lights are most likely drones.

Screen shot from UFO video submitted to MUFON. (Credit: MUFON)

Screen shot from UFO video submitted to MUFON.

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The witness submitted the video on September 10, 2017, indicating the sighting had taken place on the evening of September 3. The witness wrote that the UFOs were witnessed while driving in the Oro Valley, a suburb of Phoenix. The witness stopped the car to take a look and film the objects.

Marker indicates approximate location of witness. The objects were likely around the park at the bottom of this image. (Credit: Google Maps)

Marker indicates approximate location of witness. The objects were likely around the park at the bottom of this image.

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The witness described the objects as “3 balls of light with glimmer of red and blue hovering, flying near tangerine rd and copper spring dr.”

The witness stated the objects were seen for about 10 minutes. The video lasts almost 2 minutes, and can be downloaded here.

The park where drones were most likely launched. (Credit: Google Maps)

The park where drones were most likely launched.

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The lights dance around the sky, and the video is impressive, but so are modern day drones. Another giveaway is that the objects seem to launch from a park in the distance.

Drone technology has come a long way. In fact, drone racing has become a popular sport. Drone racers can don a virtual reality goggles and view the race first person. It is like a real-life video game. Check out this great video below of drone racing from GoPro. The drones are very maneuverable, and because Phoenix enjoys great weather, it is a hot spot for nighttime drone racing.

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Lights dance around the sky in Arizona UFO video

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Lights dance around the sky in Arizona UFO video

A witness in Arizona submitted a video to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) of lights dancing around the night sky. The video is very impressive, but the lights are most likely drones.

Screen shot from UFO video submitted to MUFON. (Credit: MUFON)

Screen shot from UFO video submitted to MUFON.

(Credit: MUFON)

The witness submitted the video on September 10, 2017, indicating the sighting had taken place on the evening of September 3. The witness wrote that the UFOs were witnessed while driving in the Oro Valley, a suburb of Phoenix. The witness stopped the car to take a look and film the objects.

Marker indicates approximate location of witness. The objects were likely around the park at the bottom of this image. (Credit: Google Maps)

Marker indicates approximate location of witness. The objects were likely around the park at the bottom of this image.

(Credit: Google Maps)

The witness described the objects as “3 balls of light with glimmer of red and blue hovering, flying near tangerine rd and copper spring dr.”

The witness stated the objects were seen for about 10 minutes. The video lasts almost 2 minutes, and can be downloaded here.

The park where drones were most likely launched. (Credit: Google Maps)

The park where drones were most likely launched.

(Credit: Google Maps)

The lights dance around the sky, and the video is impressive, but so are modern day drones. Another giveaway is that the objects seem to launch from a park in the distance.

Drone technology has come a long way. In fact, drone racing has become a popular sport. Drone racers can don a virtual reality goggles and view the race first person. It is like a real-life video game. Check out this great video below of drone racing from GoPro. The drones are very maneuverable, and because Phoenix enjoys great weather, it is a hot spot for nighttime drone racing.

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But Seriously, Where Are All of the Aliens?

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But Seriously, Where Are All of the Aliens?

The human race has been fascinated with the vast sea of space for as long as our first flickers of awareness that it even existed began to form. Specifically, one very profound question that has gestated within our collective consciousness is simply: are we alone? We have long pondered whether there might be someone else out there amongst that uncharted ocean of stars, and this has become the focus of science fiction stories, personal reflection, philosophical dilemma, and scientific debate from the time we were able to comprehend that there were even other planets out there. In recent years our ever advancing technology has allowed us to peer into the deep black of space and locate many other planets orbiting stars just as our own, with quite a few even displaying signs that they may even be similar to ours and be habitable, and for decades we have carefully listened in to hear if there is any message flying about in the void. But is there anyone there at all?

The question of whether there is other advanced life out there is a profound one, and perhaps one of the most important unanswered questions there is. Another is, if intelligent life is out there, then where are they? We have spent vast amounts of time looking for such life, used millions upon millions of dollars, and made great sacrifices exploring the great unknown beyond our world, scouring every corner of the known universe for any sign whatsoever of life, and yet as far as we know we are the only ones. How could this be? There are ideas.

In 1950, influential and notable physicist Enrico Fermi was working for Los Alamos National Laboratory, and one day while having lunch with colleagues Emil Konopinski, Edward Teller and Herbert York, the conversation came around to UFOs and alien life. The group began discussing the possibility of other alien civilizations out there scattered across the galaxy, and that was when Fermi simply and bluntly asked “Where are they?” This generated a bit of laughter around the table, but he was perfectly serious. When the others asked exactly what he had meant, Fermi explained that if there was another civilization or civilizations that had developed out there with the technological ability to traverse space, then eventually they should have already spread out all over the galaxy, and we should have had some brush with them by now in some form.

Fermi reasoned that there had been plenty of time for them to do so, and utilized complicated equations to illustrate that over millions and millions of years, just a drop in the bucket compared to the age of the universe, these hypothetical alien civilizations should have at least found us by now. Fermi explained that with so many stars and potential planets in the observable universe, then if even a fraction of those had produced intelligent, spacefaring life then they would have exponentially broken their barriers and moved out into the galaxy, colonizing new worlds, and we would have surely known about them by now. By Fermi’s various calculations, the probability for intelligent life somewhere in the universe was high considering the sheer scale of it all, and if such advanced societies had developed, then after so much time aliens should be everywhere by now, or at the very least given us some sort of sign of their existence, even if such societies are rare. Yet there is no one, no evidence of such a thing, not a single sign that there is anyone else out there at all. Essentially, like Fermi asked, where is everybody?

This is the main gist of what has gone on to become known as the “Fermi Paradox,” and although it has been criticized by many as being perhaps too simplistic and making too many assumptions based on our own ideas of life, it has nevertheless gone on to become a major cornerstone for debate on the topic of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, and has inevitably hung over most discussions on the matter. This offhand lunchtime remark has propelled the imagination and driven the efforts of organizations like SETI. No matter what one thinks of the veracity of Fermi’s question, it is a compelling one to say the least, and there have been many numerous and varied theories that have come forth to try and explain just why we have not found anyone else out there in this cold universe of ours.

Perhaps the most intuitive and ready answer is that the universe is simply too incredibly huge, and that these beings are just too incalculably far away. Perhaps we, or them, live in the boondocks of the universe, the outer fringes, and with scales like these we are talking about with distances and areas so vast that the average person would have trouble even comprehending it all, it seems quite possible. Imagine the galaxy as a sprawling beach of white sand, and the universe as every beach in the world and you are getting somewhat close. Now imagine someone in, say, South Africa trying to find one particular single grain of sand on some remote beach in North America. These are the kinds of vast scopes we are dealing with here, even more so.

In this theory, we are simply too far away and too lost in the cosmos to even register. We could just be out in the middle of nowhere amidst a beach of stars and no one has noticed us. We might just be in an isolated, uncharted corner of the universe and while all the other intelligent races out there are getting together we simply remain undiscovered. This seems like a rational idea, and could be true, but Fermi didn’t think this cut the mustard. He was under the impression that distance mattered little, nor did the speed of travel. The SETI Institute’s very own web page says of this:

You can quibble about the speed of alien spacecraft, and whether they can move at 1 percent of the speed of light or 10 percent of the speed of light. It doesn’t matter. You can argue about how long it would take for a new star colony to spawn colonies of its own. It still doesn’t matter. Any halfway reasonable assumption about how fast colonization could take place still ends up with time scales that are profoundly shorter than the age of the Galaxy. It’s like having a heated discussion about whether Spanish ships of the 16th century could heave along at two knots or twenty. Either way they could speedily colonize the Americas.

This could be explained away by saying that life may just be incredibly rare in the universe, which when coupled with the immense distances involved serves to keep us apart, but even if this were the case there is also the fact that these would be races far beyond us in terms of development, so would we really remain merely out of sight in some remote corner of the universe without being detected in the slightest? Is this possible? Indeed, we have been boldly announcing our presence to the universe for decades, so are they so far away that they haven’t received the message or what? Perhaps, or maybe they do know we are here but simply don’t care. Maybe they are listening to our desperate calls out into the cosmos but just don’t want to answer?

There are a lot of reasons why these hypothetical aliens might not want to acknowledge our existence. Perhaps we just seem to be too primitive, and they no more wish to try and talk to us than we might wish to try and talk to an ant. As renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has said, “We’d be drooling, blithering idiots in their presence.” More optimistically, maybe they are listening, but waiting until we reach a certain level of sophistication before finally approaching us. Or maybe they see us as an inevitable threat and have decided to stay away. More depressingly, maybe we just aren’t all that interesting to them. Who knows? It also could be that they see us as merely a curiosity, and are watching but willfully choose to leave us be as we are, just watching us and seeing what happens next. This theory even has a name, the “Zoo Hypothesis,” first suggested by a John A. Ball in 1973, which suggests that we are at best curiosities for other civilizations and at worst not worth talking to or insignificant, just entertainment and nothing more. Ball would say of this idea:

The idea that we shall be welcomed as new members into the galactic community is as unlikely as the idea that oysters will be welcomed as new members into the human community. We’re probably not even edible.

It seems to be a slap in the face, that we could spend so much time and money more or less blaring out our presence into the stars without an answer simply because they choose to ignore us or blow us off for whatever reasons. If that seems too depressing for you, then an offshoot of this is that we are just using the wrong method of communication to reach out to them. Although using radio waves seems natural and rational to us, there is the chance that they have moved well beyond such primitive methods of broadcast, or have never even developed this means of communication at all. Maybe they are using some other advanced system of communication and are so far beyond our own attempts at contact that they simply don’t recognize our signals for what they are. This could work the other way around as well, with them potentially sending out copious messages out into the stars but with us unable to detect or understand them to any extent. One cosmologist and astrophysicist named Lord Rees has observed:

They could be staring us in the face, and we just don’t recognize them. The problem is that we’re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology. I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive.

In short, we might mutually have no idea that the other is trying to communicate, and our messages just might turn out as white noise to each other. Other reasons for no response from the cosmos could also be that we just haven’t been looking long enough or have been focusing on the wrong places, but the fact that we have gotten no response to our various dedicated efforts to reach out seems at least somewhat discouraging.

Other theories prove to be a slight bit more dismal and sobering yet. One very persistent theory is that intelligent life has routinely developed throughout the cosmos, but that they have inevitably hit a dead end or stumbling block along the way. According to this idea, it is the intrinsic nature of an advanced species to eventually destroy or cripple itself, or reach point where it is otherwise unable to continue its journey out into the stars. There are two different takes on this idea. One is that advanced societies are inherently self-destructive; an idea called the Medea Hypothesis, named after a Greek goddess who killed her own children. According to this hypothesis, any sufficiently developed civilization will eventually totally wipe itself out through warfare, violence, genocide and strife.

It is not hard to see this in effect to some extent even within the news of our own current affairs, so perhaps no aliens have gotten far enough to reach us because they just have it wired into their genes to annihilate themselves before they ever even get the chance. They simply self destruct at some point, never progressing past a certain point of development. Or maybe other species out there have indeed reached past this point, but none that have overlapped in the same era before fading away. After all, we are talking about mind-bogglingly long stretches of time, so maybe they have just naturally run their course and reached an end before another intelligent civilization comes about to talk to, but in the end there has been something that has caused the extinction of an intelligent race to make it uncontactable.

Another take on this basic premise is called the “Great Filter Theory,” which holds that intelligent life is, for one reason or another,  simply not able to progress to the point of intergalactic travel and communication. It supposes that we eventually reach some form of a barrier to our inexorable technological advances that keeps us tethered to our own world and unable to reach out into the cosmos to any appreciable degree. This could be because of many reasons, such as war, ecological catastrophe, a cataclysmic event, or the limits of our minds, but it all boils down to us inevitably hitting an impenetrable wall through which we cannot pass. That species are doomed to fail at reaching out into the stars is unsettling to say the least, but on a brighter note maybe we are just the first ones to have managed to breach this limit?

There are some who think so, but if this is the case and we are truly the first, then all other life in the universe would be far too primitive to have reached our level of sophistication and so would remain incognito for quite some time to come, essentially making us effectively alone. If this is the case, then we are truly the first intelligent beings to make it to the point where we are flying out into space and making attempts at communication, but no one else has the ability to listen. This relative primitive state of affairs could explain why no other civilization has been sending signals into space or answering our own, because they still simply lack the means with which to do so, and we may be waiting for quite some time.

Linked to this is the idea that alien life may be simply far too different from ours to even recognize. We like to think that we have a handle on what constitutes life and its building blocks, or the criteria for a hospitable world, but what if we have it all wrong? What if life does not have to abide by our own tentative understanding of its rules, and we are more or less anthropomorphizing it to fit our own limited window for what life requires or should be like? If this were the case alien life could be all around us and blaring into our ears and we would not recognize it in the slightest bit because it would be too different from our limited definition of what life should be for us to recognize it as such. It could just be incomprehensible to us.

Moving out into more far-out territory we come to more, shall we say, unconventional explanations for our lack of any sort of contact with extraterrestrials. One common one is that we are all living in a simulated reality and therefore aliens don’t exist simply because they have not been programmed in. There is actually a lot of speculation on this matter, of which I have covered at Mysterious Universe before, and as questionable as it all may seem it would definitely explain why there are no aliens. Similar to this is the idea that aliens do exist, but that they live in another plane of reality, and therefore remain mostly hidden to us. They may even be all around us right now, but we would never know because they are invisible and lurking in another dimension or plane of existence just beyond our perceptions.

There is also of course the notion that alien life is already here, as evidenced by all of the UFO sightings and alien encounters we have recorded over the decades. Maybe we have to look no further than these reports to see the evidence that not only does alien life exist, but that it is already here amongst us, just remaining in the shadows hidden, elusive and unverified. Although there are certainly a lot of strange UFO sightings and reports of meetings with aliens, these nevertheless remain unconfirmed, and even if they are all real they could be something even stranger still, and not necessarily evidence of life from the stars.

Finally we have what might be the bleakest, most depressing answer to the Fermi Paradox of all, and that is that we truly are alone. Although that may seem unbelievable considering the countless planets that apparently lie out there in the universe, perhaps we just happened to win the intergalactic lottery. Despite all of the talk of the building blocks of life present on other worlds, perhaps things were able to come together just so and in such a precise manner on our planet that life was able to evolve, but hasn’t done so anywhere else. There is the possibility that this was a one of a kind occurrence, an anomaly, and that even if it were to happen again there would be no guarantee that it would ever advance past single-celled organisms. In this scenario we are truly the only ones, the only advanced race in the entire universe, indeed perhaps the only life at all, and the reason no one has answered our calls or shown up at our doorstep is that there is simply no one else out there, just the yawning chasm of endless, inhospitable, empty space. It is a chilling revelation to be sure, and with all of the potential for life lying out there in the chasms of space a seemingly unbelievable one, yet one that must be at least considered; that maybe, just maybe, we are alone after all.

There are other ideas as well, running the range from the rational to the absurd, but these are the main theories as to why we have yet to officially encounter any aliens or even detect them in the slightest bit. We continue to trudge on as we always have, the dedicated amongst us reaching out to the stars and trying to elicit a response, and that response never comes. Why is it that we have never found any evidence of life beyond our own? Why have we remained alone and uncertain as to our status in the universe? Is the answer right around the corner, or is it as some suspect that we are the only life there is in this unfathomably large universe; the exception to the rule and the sole consciousness within an infinite sea of dark, lifeless emptiness? Until we make the contact we yearn for, we will not know.

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UFO Seekers Flock to Devils Tower Seeking Close Encounters

UFO Seekers Flock to Devils Tower Seeking Close Encounters

In Steven Spielberg’s iconic 1977 science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a mysterious force compels desperate seekers to converge on Wyoming’s Devils Tower in search of answers. When they arrive, they encounter a massive alien mothership which communicates through music and returns scores of missing persons who have been abducted over the years. A lucky few of the witnesses are allowed to go aboard the mothership and travel to the stars with the alien beings. Forty years after the film’s release, UFO seekers are returning to the 800-foot-tall tower, but this time the mysterious forces compelling them to come together is much easier to explain.

If you havent seen Close Encounters, make sure to catch it in theaters this year.
If you haven’t seen ‘Close Encounters’, make sure to catch it in theaters this year.

UFO hunters, E.T. enthusiasts, and sci-fi fans are converging in Wyoming for the first Devils Tower UFO Rendezvous, held September 14-16. Rather than a musical mothership, the UFO enthusiasts are this time going to be greeted with a barbecue, parade, and live entertainment. But who knows? Anything could happen.

The official promo photo for this years UFO Rendezvous.

The official promo photo for this year’s UFO Rendezvous.

According to the official website, the mission of the UFO rendezvous “shall be to bring together a wide variety of social groups with the common interest in learning and education about UFO’s and the celebration of the anniversary of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind and their intent is “to gather to further the study and interest of UFO’s while celebrating on an annual basis.”

Devils Tower was named Americas first national monument in 1906.

Devils Tower was named America’s first national monument in 1906.

The rendezvous will feature a special screening of the film, MUFON field investigator training, and speeches by MUFON director Jan Harzan, paranormal investigator Chuck Zukowski, and infamous alleged abductee Travis Walton. A one-day pass costs a cool $100, while a full weekend-long registration is $189. Better hope there’s free popcorn at the movie screening.

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Wright-Patterson AFB, Ray Szymanski and Hidden Aliens

Wright-Patterson AFB, Ray Szymanski and Hidden Aliens

A number of media outlets revisited (or visited) 50 Shades of Greys recently after its author was interviewed by Sun Online. In the book, published in January 2016, Szymanski begins with details of his first days on the job at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1973 when a mentor named Al introduced him to the Avionics Laboratory’s Management Operations Office by asking, “Have you heard about our aliens?”

“He said that in 1947 there was a crash down in Roswell and they brought the machines and the aliens here for inspection and said they keep them in secret tunnels under the base. When I asked him how he came to know about the secret, he responded, ‘Everybody who works on base knows’. I was stunned. Me, a young co-op student barely into his first week, was now initiated into a small select group of 10,000 people and given their most incredible secret ever – that we have aliens and their craft in our tunnels on our base.’”

Szymanski says he then began a clandestine and at times overt investigation into what his mentor was talking about. While his onsite snooping ended with his retirement from Wright-Patterson in 2011, his search for evidence continued until the book was published in 2016.

In his recent interview, Szymanski does his best to avoid revealing details of what he’s discovered while hinting at what he found.

“For the next four decades I had dozens if not hundreds of brief conversations regarding the ‘secret’ I’d been given during my first week on base. The important fact established here is that not one single person at that time ever said, “We have no aliens here, you crazy son of a b*tch”… I saw lots of smiles but no denials. I’ve been basically investigating locations on the base that I think could contain clues to its history relative to extraterrestrials and UFOs ever since. By looking at evidence, which I document in the book in text and photographs, it would appear to me as if the stories are true.”

Why does Szymanski used the term “Greys” in the title? Is it just a clever play on that ‘other’ book about 50 shades? Szymanski admits that, while he’s been in the tunnels his mentor described, he didn’t see any dead or living aliens in them … at leas that he could recognize as aliens. However, he claims to have strong evidence of possible burial sites on the base and suggests he’s been spied up at least three times by men who “wore black suits and black hats.”

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Aerial view of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

If you’re thinking that Szymanski doesn’t have a proverbial smoking gun, you’re probably right. In fact, while he seems to imply that there IS a smoking gun, he doesn’t think humans are ready for it and that could be why he hasn’t seen it either.

“We still aren’t ready for full disclosure, the governments like to keep secrets cause that’s what keeps us safe sometimes. The last time the Air-Force made the announcement ‘hey we’ve got a flying saucer’ that didn’t go so well, so what would happen if they announced it this time?”

So he doesn’t seem to think full disclosure is coming any time soon. Nonetheless, the insights of an insider inside the infamous Wright-Patterson Air Force Base sounds interesting for what Szymanski says it contains:

“I present new theories, I show you evidence and I let you make up your own mind.”

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