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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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Calling ET: Nasa finds a way to boost its search for alien worlds supporting extraterrestrial life

Calling ET: Nasa finds a way to boost its search for alien worlds supporting extraterrestrial life

New research will help astronomers narrow down the most promising candidates in the search for habitable planets.

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Why haven't we found alien life? Newsweek

The search for alien life is set to be streamlined, helping astronomers narrow down potential candidates of alien worlds suspected to possibly support life, thanks to new research from Nasa. Scientists used a model that "realistically simulated atmospheric conditions" that would be required to support extraterrestrial life. The model aided the discovery of a completely new process that can boost the search for alien planets supporting life.

"Using a model that more realistically simulates atmospheric conditions, we discovered a new process that controls the habitability of exoplanets and that will guide us in identifying candidates for further study," Yuka Fujii of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and the Earth-Life Science Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, who is also the lead author of the research paper, said in a statement.

What would an alien planet need to support life?

According to Nasa, liquid water is "necessary for life as we know it". To be considered habitable, an alien planet, for instance an exoplanet, would have to have a temperature that would allow liquid water to have existed on the planet's surface for roughly billions of years – enough time for life to have thrived.

However, the exoplanet's distance from its parent star can help determine if it could be habitable. For instance, if the exoplanet is too far away from its parent star, it would be too cold, freezing the planet's oceans. Alternatively, if the exoplanet is too close, the intense light from the parent star would eventually cause the oceans to evaporate and be lost to space.

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"This happens when water vapour rises to a layer in the upper atmosphere called the stratosphere and gets broken into its elemental components (hydrogen and oxygen) by ultraviolet light from the star. The extremely light hydrogen atoms can then escape to space. Planets in the process of losing their oceans this way are said to have entered a "moist greenhouse" state because of their humid stratospheres," Nasa said.

"We found an important role for the type of radiation a star emits and the effect it has on the atmospheric circulation of an exoplanet in making the moist greenhouse state," said Fujii. In case of exoplanets orbiting close to their parent stars, the power of the star's gravity will slow the planet's rotation, which in turn could lead to the planet becoming tidally locked. This is essentially when one side of the exoplanet will always face the star, giving that region constant daylight and the other region will always be away from the star, in a state of eternal night.

Such a scenario could lead to the cloud on the planet's day-side to act as an umbrella, keeping the planet cool and preventing water vapour from rising. The scientists found the NIR (near-infrared radiation), which is a type of light invisible to the human eye, that comes from a star could "provide the heat needed to cause a planet to enter the moist greenhouse state".

Exoplanet An artist's illustration depicting a star's light illuminating the atmosphere of a planet NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

The new model showed that since these parent stars emit the bulk of their light at NIR wavelengths, this could result in a moist greenhouse state providing conditions similar or even warmer than those experienced in the Earth's tropics.

"For exoplanets closer to their stars, the team found that the NIR-driven process increased moisture in the stratosphere gradually. So, it's possible, contrary to old model predictions, that an exoplanet closer to its parent star could remain habitable," Nasa said.

"As long as we know the temperature of the star, we can estimate whether planets close to their stars have the potential to be in the moist greenhouse state," said Anthony Del Genio of GISS, a co-author of the paper. "Current technology will be pushed to the limit to detect small amounts of water vapour in an exoplanet's atmosphere. If there is enough water to be detected, it probably means that planet is in the moist greenhouse state."

The new study is based on scientists' assumptions of an Earth-like planet, but one covered in oceans. The assumptions allowed researchers to determine how variations in orbital distance and type of stellar radiation could affect the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.

The team plans on modifying planetary characteristics such as size, gravity, atmospheric composition and surface pressure to see how they affect the circulation of water vapour and habitability, thereby helping narrow down the search for alien life.

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More evidence for a Planet 9

More evidence for a Planet 9

No new large planet on the outskirts of our solar system has yet been discovered, although evidence is building, astronomers say. By the way, if Planet 9 does exist … it’s definitely not headed our way.

Artist’s concept of an unknown large planet, far from its sun, via NASA.

There’s been a fair amount of Planet 9 buzz this month, which seems to have kicked off with a feature story about this as-yet-undiscovered world at a NASA website on October 4. That story was duplicated multiple times online, and in the process it was altered in various good and bad ways, like the proverbial message in the telephone game. In at least one place, we saw a headline suggesting NASA admits the mysterious Planet 9 is real. NASA has done no such thing, of course, and such are the headlines that give us editors reputations as wanton purveyors of click bait. Then today (October 17, 2017), a University of Michigan doctoral student held a press conference to announce two pieces of evidence that may support the existence of a Planet 9. That news should stir the pot still more.


All this, and no large Planet 9 has been discovered.

Plus some of the buzz will likely become fuel for the Nibiru conspiracy theory, which (come to think of it) was supposed to culminate a month ago with a large planet colliding with Earth. And that’s enough said about that.

Astronomers announced in 2016 that a Planet 9 might exist. Their theory was based on the way some trans-Neptunian objects behave. These are rocky objects smaller than Pluto that orbit the sun at a greater average distance than Neptune. It seems the orbits of the most distant ones – those whose average distance from the sun is more than 250 times as far as Earth’s distance — point in the same direction.

Could a large Planet 9 be pulling on them?

Artist’s illustration of the orbits of 6 known trans-Neptunian objects, all aligned in one direction. This evidence led Caltech astronomers in 2016 to suggest a Planet 9 might exist. Image via Caltech.

The new research announced on October 17 works with the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects, too. It’s led by Juliette Becker, a graduate student in the Department of Astronomy at University of Michigan. Becker’s work consists of a large set of computer simulations, which, the researchers say, uncovered two findings about trans-Neptunian objects, also known as TNOs. Their statement explained:

First, the researchers established a version of Planet 9 that would most likely cause our solar system to look the way it currently does, by preventing the TNOs from being destroyed or thrown out of the solar system.

Second, the simulations predict that there is a process that they call resonance hopping by which a TNO jumps between stable orbits. This process can prevent the TNOs from being ejected from the solar system.

Juliette Becker led computer simulations supporting the theory that our solar system might contain a large, distant, undiscovered planet.

The researchers conducted various simulations, and, in each one, they tested different versions of Planet 9 to see whether that version of the planet, with its gravitational forces, resulted in the same version of the solar system we see today. Becker said:

From that set of simulations, we found out that there are preferred versions of Planet 9 that make the TNO stay stable for longer, so it basically increases the probability that our solar system exists the way it does.

The ultimate goal would be to directly see Planet 9 — to take a telescope, point it at the sky, and see reflected light from the sun bouncing off of Planet 9.

Since we haven’t yet been able to find it, despite many people looking, we’re stuck with these kinds of indirect methods.

Indeed. You can find Becker’s research here.

Caltech professor Mike Brown and assistant professor Konstanin Batygin. Their 2016 paper in the Astrophysical Journal sparked the current Planet 9 investigation. Image via Lance Hayashida/Caltech/NASA.

In the meantime, going back to the buzz, NASA’s October 4 Planet 9 feature story (called The Super-Earth That Came Home for Dinner) features a quote from one of the hypothetical planet’s most dedicated trackers, Konstantin Batygin, a planetary astrophysicist at Caltech in Pasadena, California, who said:

There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet 9. If you were to remove this explanation and imagine Planet 9 does not exist, then you generate more problems than you solve. All of a sudden, you have five different puzzles, and you must come up with five different theories to explain them.

… it is now harder to imagine our solar system without a Planet 9 than with one.

That’s all logical and good. So … are we on the verge of discovering another large planet on the outskirts of our solar system? Maybe. Astronomers discover new things, both in our solar system and beyond, all the time. As always, stay tuned, and try to read past the headlines.

Bottom line: Although no Planet 9 has yet been discovered by astronomers, there’s continuing evidence one might exist. If such a world does exist, it’s approximately 20 times farther from the sun than the outermost large planet currently known, Neptune. It’s not heading our way.

Read Becker’s 2017 Planet 9 study

Read Brown and Batygin’s 2016 paper that sparked the Planet 9 idea

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Traveling to Mars? Top 6 health challenges

Traveling to Mars? Top 6 health challenges

NASA aims to have humans on Mars by the 2030s. The people making the long space journey will experience health risks they’ve never faced before.

International Space Station astronauts have been helping to pave the wave for future manned Mars missions.

Image via NASA.

NASA has announced its aim to have humans on planet Mars by the 2030s. But long-distance space travel brings with it a unique set of health problems.

How will the people who make the trip cope with the mental and physical rigors of the journey? Marc Jurblum, a training psychiatrist at the University of Melbourne and member of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine’s Space Life Sciences Committee, outlined six of the key health issues facing prospective space travelers.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly watches carrots float in front of him on April 19, 2015 in space. Kelly was one of the One-Year crew members on the International Space Station testing how the human body reacts to an extended presence in space as preparation for the long flights NASA plans to Mars and back in the future. Image via NASA/Futurity.org.

1. Space sickness

On Earth, tiny gyroscopes in your brain give you spatial awareness. They tell you when you tilt your head, accelerate, or change position. But it’s different in space. Jurblum said:

In Zero G, those don’t work as well and, as a result, astronauts suffer a lot of nausea. A lot of them spend days feeling incredibly unwell. It’s like being seasick.

There are many examples. In 1968, NASA launched Apollo 8. Astronaut Frank Borman suffered such a bad bout of space sickness on the way to the moon that Mission Control considered shortening the mission.

Fortunately, just like people going to sea eventually get their sea legs, astronauts develop ‘space legs’ within about two weeks. But once they return to Earth, the opposite is true — many of them have to work hard to get their ‘Earth legs’ back.

Expedition 48 crew members on board the International Space Station adjusting to cramped station life in orbit. Image via NASA.

2. Mental stress

Space travel is still inherently dangerous. Essentially you are floating through an airless vacuum in a sealed-up container, only staying alive because of the machinery recycling your air and water. There is little room to move and you’re in constant danger from radiation and micro-meteorites. Jurblum said:

We don’t know what months and months of living in an unchanging capsule habitat with only blackness outside the little window will do to people’s minds. Even if you turn the ship around, Earth will be a distant speck of light. There’s little more than hydrogen atoms for hundreds of thousands of kilometers around you.

Research groups are looking at how to maintain mental health in extreme environments, including using interventions such as meditation and the positive impact pictures of nature can have on space travelers. Virtual Reality might also help by giving the astronauts a rest from the monotony.

Then there’s the issue of emotions. On Earth, if people get upset with their boss or workmate they might take out their frustrations at home or the gym. In space, astronauts can’t afford to get angry with each other. They must be able to react really quickly, communicate, and work as a team.

In contrast, there’s a positive psychological phenomenon of space travel, known as the “overview effect.” Jurblum said:

Most astronauts who have gone into space have come back with a change of perspective. They become more environmentalist, spiritual, or religious.

NASA astronaut Ron Garan described it as

…the realization that we are all traveling together on the planet and that if we all looked at the world from that perspective we would see that nothing is impossible.

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams is held down by a bungee harness as she exercises on the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill. Image via NASA.

3. Weaker muscles

There is no gravity on the International Space Station (ISS), and Mars only has about a third of Earth’s gravity. This plays havoc with the human body, Jurblum said. Our muscles are so used to fighting gravity on Earth that its absence means they weaken and waste.

Astronauts must do two to three hours of exercise every day just to maintain muscle mass and cardiovascular fitness. The heart loses muscle which would be extremely dangerous if they didn’t maintain it through exercise.

Tight, elastic body suits or “penguin suits,” developed by the Soviet space program, attempt to mimic the effects of gravity on muscles by providing a deep compression force on the skin, muscle, and bone—meaning they have to work harder to perform normal movements. But they’re far from perfect, Jurblum says.

4. Eye problems

A common hazard on the ISS is the fine specks that float around the cabin, often lodging in the eyes of astronauts and causing abrasions. But the lack of gravity and the movement of fluids are what can cause the most serious issues for astronauts, said Jublum.

Most end up wearing glasses in space and when they come back, some even have permanent changes to their vision.

The deterioration results from the fluid shift to the head building up in the skull where it bulges into the back of the eyeball and changes the shape of the lens. Jurblum said:

This bulging seems to cause the irreversible vision problems we’re trying to understand and manage.

Astronaut Scott Kelly administers the flu vaccination to himself aboard the International Space Station. Image via NASA/Scott Kelly.

5. Coughs and colds

If you catch a cold on Earth, you stay home and it’s no big deal. Space is another story. You’re living a densely packed, confined space—breathing recirculated air, touching common surfaces over and over again, with a lot less opportunity to wash.

The human immune system doesn’t work as well in space, so mission members are isolated for a few weeks before lift-off to guard against illness. Jurblum said:

We’re not sure why, but it seems that bacteria are more dangerous in space. On top of that, if you sneeze in space, all the droplets come straight out and keep going. If someone has a flu, everyone is going to get it and there are limited medical facilities and a very long way to the nearest hospital.

CPR training for ESA astronauts during parabolic flights.

6. Medical emergencies

Luckily, there have not yet been any major medical emergencies in space, but astronauts have training to deal with them.

For instance, ISS astronauts have developed a way to perform CPR in zero gravity by bracing their legs on the ceiling while pushing down on the patient on the floor below.

While a rescue from the ISS can be performed within a day, the people who go to Mars will be an eight-month journey away, and they need to be prepared to manage on their own, Jurblum said:

How do you lift them on a stretcher, get them into an airlock, out of their suit, and onto a surgical table with a doctor, a botanist, and a couple of scientists to help do surgery? You may have an orthopedic surgeon on Earth sending you information on how to do it, but there is a 20-minute time delay.

Here on Earth, Mars Analogs simulate some of the conditions human beings could experience during a future mission to Mars, allowing researchers to work on solutions to situations like what to do if a team member breaks their leg while outside the base.

NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s – goals outlined in the bipartisan NASA Authorization Act of 2010 and in the U.S. National Space Policy, also issued in 2010. Read more about NASA’s plans for a journey to Mars via NASA.

Bottom line: Six health challenges for the human journey to Mars.

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Blue Origin Conducts First Test of BE-4 Engine

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Global wave of animal mutilation defies any explanation

Global wave of animal mutilation defies any explanation

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Just as there are reports of people disappearing – and being abducted by extraterrestrials – another phenomenon has caused a great debate among experts around the world: animal mutilations. The declassified records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that the FBI investigated MILES of cases of mutilation of cattle in the United States since at least the seventies, but with no result.

Just as there are reports of people disappearing – and being abducted by extraterrestrials – another phenomenon has caused a great debate among experts around the world: animal mutilations. The declassified records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that the FBI investigated MILES of cases of mutilation of cattle in the United States since at least the seventies, but with no result.

Early reports of mutilated cattle first appeared in the United States in the 1960s, when the states of Pennsylvania and Kansas were largely confined. The phenomenon was still largely unknown outside the livestock breeding communities until 1967 when Pueblo Cacique in Pueblo, Colorado published a story about a horse named Lady was mutilated under mysterious circumstances.

Shortly after, the press collected the story in general and was distributed throughout the country; this case was also the first characteristic of the speculation that the extraterrestrial beings and the unidentified flying objects were somehow related to the mutilation.

From the time the allegations of alleged animal mutilation began, the causes have been attributed in particular to natural decomposition, natural predators, cryptic predators, extraterrestrials, reserved government or armed forces and sects. Mutilations have been the subject of two independent federal investigations.

But in spite of this fact, the leading experts are also not sure and the more we look at this, the less it seems we understand. Skeptics argue that aliens are not involved, but that the defacement of livestock is in fact the product of natural disasters, sadistic jokes or other ‘sick’ jokes. But UFO investigators argue that the explanations of another world can not be nullified due to the fact that almost all attackers are carried out with surgical precision.

Mutilated cattle are found all over the world, but especially in US states. UU. Like South Dakota, Colorado, Kansas and Nevada, where farmers discovered the organs of their livestock: eyes, noses, hearts, livers, years and genitals. -removed with precision similar to a laser.

In addition, FBI documents clearly state that the best investigative minds in the United States can not answer the most frequent question of all: Who would be doing this?

An explanation of another world seems very likely according to many authors.

This is mainly because residents have reported seeing mysterious crafts as well as a strange light that has sinned in the sky circling the areas where later mutilated cattle appeared.

Chuck Zukowski, curator of UfoNut.com and a researcher who has been investigating cattle mutilations for decades, said in an interview with Sputink:

‘There are no signs of downing predators, there are no signs of the mass amount of hemorrhages and there are no signs of animal fighting, none! The animal has just been repositioned and, in some cases, a round depression is created while returning the animal. Mutilations have been going on for centuries: Native Americans also have stories of mutilated animals that occurred before Europeans migrated to North America, ‘Zukowski told Sputnik.

Although the exact nature of the mutilation varies from case to case, typical mutilation may involve some or all of the following characteristics:

  • Excision of the eyes, udders, and sexual organs.

  • Extraction of the anus to a depth of about 12 inches.

  • The cleavage of the tongue and lips.

  • The removal of one of the ears.

  • Removing the soft organs from the lower body.

  • The presence of incisions and cuts throughout the body that appear to have been made by a surgical instrument.

  • Inexplicable damage to the remaining organs, but no sign of damage in surrounding areas

  • Lack of signs of predation (scratches, teeth marks, traces of the predator) on or around the corpse.

  • Lack of waste.

  • Blood drained out of the body.

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Artificial intelligence - hype, hope and fear

Artificial intelligence - hype, hope and fear

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Roswell UFO witness' never-before-seen interview: 'Soldiers hauled a creature away - he had big eyes like the one on TV'

Roswell UFO witness' never-before-seen interview: 'Soldiers hauled a creature away - he had big eyes like the one on TV'

In a never-before-seen interview, former US Deputy Sheriff Charlie Forgus says he was a witness to the UFO crash at Roswell in 1947

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In July 1947 Sheriff Jess Slaughter and Deputy Sheriff Charles Fogus were travelling together to pick up a prisoner when they heard on their police radio reports of a crashed aircraft.

The two men, who were travelling to Roswell, New Mexico, decided to investigate and stumbled across the scene of one of the most famous UFO incidents in history.

While the US military have long claimed the crashed object was merely a weather balloon, conspiracy theorists believe the site was the scene of at least one alien aircraft crash and the recovery of extraterrestrials.

In a new book, UFOs TODAY – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Up, law enforcement officer Fogus reveals he saw a downed flying saucer and military personnel removing a number of alien bodies from the scene.

It is the first time his statement has been published.

Deputy Sheriff Charles H Fogus of Howard County has striking testimony (Image: Irena Scott)

In the interview he says he say a flying saucer crashed into the side of a river bed which was "100ft across".

Describing the scene he said: "When we got there, the land was covered with soldiers. They were hauling a big, a creature.

"The bodies must have been 5 feet tall.

"I saw the legs and feet on some of them. They looked like our feet.

"The skin was a brownish color…. Like they were in the sun too long.

"There were soldiers there….about 3 or 4 hundred of them.

"We seen them haul them (the bodies) out there, out of the canyon up to the trucks….puttin them on the tow trucks so they could haul them."

Charles Forgus said he saw alien bodies at the Roswell site (Image: Irena Scott)

He says after about 20 minutes they were told to leave the scene and so continued on their journey to collect the prisoner.

Deputy Sheriff Charles H Fogus of Howard County along with his colleague Jeff Slaughter saw the crash site at Roswell (Image: Irena Scott)

Asked what he thought of what he saw, he said: "The Great Father didn’t just make this planet…. He made all of them. He put beings on these planets just like he put us on this one. They’re smarter then we are.

"They can get from there to here, but we can’t get from here to there."

The Daily Mirror has been passed a transcript of an interview between Deputy Sheriff Fogus of Howard County, Texas, and Los Angeles private investigator Deanna Short by the book publisher Philip Mantle, a former Director of Investigations for the British UFO Research Association.

He said: "Deanna recorded the interview on video and later had a transcript done of the interview and completed her Agency report to verify facts at that time related to Charles Forgus and Sheriff Jess Slaughter - both of Howard County, Texas.

Scene of the Roswell incident as described by the former deputy (Image: Irena Scott)

"Both were there and were on an overlook to view the crash scene recovery by the Army.

"I should note that according to Deanna's daughter Mackenzie, Charles made a special effort to note to Deanna "not to believe what others will say - he and the Sheriff did witness the Roswell crash scene". They had heard about the crash on the police radio which enabled them to find the location.

"It is rare that anyone new adds anything to the Roswell event from an eye witness point of view.

"If you treat the Roswell UFO crash as a 'cold case' investigation then new testimony like this can be invaluable.

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"It could confirm what other witnesses have previously said or it could be another potential witness that has been eliminated from the enquiry.

"So either way it is an invaluable piece of information. To have it on video as well is a real luxury. I remain open minded on this gentleman's testimony but we hope that by making it public that others might be able to assist us in our investigations.

"I dare say many of those that know far more than me about the Roswell Incident will write it off as it does not fit the known Roswell crash scenario.

"All I will say is that I am working to try and find any more information and I leave this ‘Roswell File’ open. If anyone reading this has any information concerning the Roswell Incident we urge them to get in touch."

The Roswell incident has captured the imaginations of UFO experts for years (Image: Irena Scott)

The full transcript:

Questioner: What I’m trying to do is pierce together……

CF: I was working for the Sheriff of. I was a Deputy there for Sheriff Slaughter, was back in the 40s. We went to Roswell to pick up a prisoner. When we got there, the land was covered with soldiers. They were hauling a big, a creature. Hauling him away.

What I seen of him looked just like the one we see on television, with big eyes. There was a big round thing in the canyon. It was about 100 feet across. They put that on a truck and hauled it away. They wouldn’t let us get very close to it either. So we headed up to get the prisoner in Roswell and back to.

Q: So you were on your way from to Roswell to pick up a prisoner and you happened to be at that place……

CF: It already had crashed. They were taking them out. There were soldiers there….about 3 or 4 hundred of them. They wouldn’t let you get very close. They were keeping all the people away. People were coming out there.

Q: What did the saucer (we’ll call it) look like?

CF: It was a big round thing. Across the middle it was about 100 feet.

Q: Did you see any lights around it?

A local newspaper report detailing the Roswell incident in 1947 (Image: Sipa)

CF: No, they went out when it banged into the wall in the creek. It was like a mountain on the side of the creek.

Q: Did you see any creatures: How many did you see?

CF: Yeh, I saw them. I think I seen about four (of them).

Q: Were they covered up?

CF: Mostly. I saw the legs and feet on some of them.

Q: What did the feet look like? Do you remember?

CF: They looked like our feet.

Q: Could you figure how tall they were? They were laying flat, Right?

CF: Yeh, There is one thing I do remember. The Great Father didn’t just make this planet…. He made all of them. He put beings on these planets just like he put us on this one. They’re smarter then we are. They can get from there to here, but we can’t get from here to there.

(Note: CF is rather deaf. He wears two hearing aid appliances in this ears, so he answers my questions as follows :)

Q: Why do you think they’re here then?

CF: I don’t know where they hauled them. They might have hauled them to the hospital or somewhere.

Q: How long were you and Sheriff Slaughter at that site after you arrived?

CF: About 30 Minutes?

Q: Did you tell anyone about it?

CF: The Army was there and military soldiers were there.

Major Jesse Marcel from the Roswell Army Air Field with debris found 75 miles north west of Roswell, NM, in June 1947. (Image: AFP)
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Q: Did they tell you not to say anything?

CF: No, they didn’t tell me nothing’. They wouldn’t let you get close to ‘em.

Q: Did they actually see you observing what was going on?

CF: Sure, they saw me lookin’ at them.

Q: And they didn’t tell you to not say anything…..

CF: No, They wouldn’t let us get close to them. We were about 10 away.

Q: You were that close?

CF: We might have been further away. I didn’t have glasses then, I could see pretty good.

Q: What was your official capacity then?

CF: I was a Deputy The County Seat was I was riding with the Sheriff when we went to get the prisoner.

He didn’t order nobody except me to go with him. The UFO was already down when we got there. We went and got the prisoner afterwards. We heard about it on the radio.

Q: What did you hear on the radio?

CF: That the thing had crashed.

Q: But they didn’t know what ‘the thing’ was?

CF: No. But you would think that when people hear something like this, it scares the heck out of them. This came out of the police radio. We were on the way through there (to pick up the prisoner) when we heard it on the police radio. It was a big distance from to Roswell...you can look on a map and see it.

Q: So let me ask you this. When you guys were driving down the road and you were listening to the police radio……

CF: Yeh.....

A sign marking the spot where the sighting happened (Image: Photonica)

Q: Do you remember what was said on the radio about whatever it was... Do you recall?

CF: All I remember is they said that a saucer crashed out there in the canyon.

Q: They actually said the word ‘saucer’?

CF: They can call it a saucer if they want to but there ain’t a big enough cup of coffee for that thing.

Q: How long do you think you were at the site?

CF: Probably about 20 minutes. We seen them haul them (the bodies) out there, out of the canyon up to the trucks….puttin them on the tow trucks so they could haul them.

Q: Did anyone try to get you to leave the scene.

CF: No….they told the Sheriff that we had to go. That was good enough for us….He’s the boss.

Q: When they were taking the beings, we'll call them beings, were the beings laying on the ground around the saucer?

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There are questions about the suspected alien crash at Roswell (Image: Getty)
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CF: Yeh, they were lifting them up with a crane that they had and picking them up and swinging them to put them on the truck. The bodies must have been 5 feet tall.

Q: Did you see the heads?

CF: Yeh….they were covered. They eyes looked like the ones we see on television and the pictures of them.

Q: What color was the skin?

CF: As much as I could tell….the skin was a brownish color…. Like they were in the sun too long.

Q: From the time it crashed until the time you got there, do you know how much time went by? From the time you heard it on the police radio until you got there?

CF: About two hours.

Q: Did you see any writing or engraving on the saucer?

CF: I wasn’t that close to it?

Deputy Sheriff Charles H Fogus pictured when he was still working (Image: Irena Scott)

Q: If you were say 12 feet away from the beings, how far were the beings away from the saucer. Were they thrown pretty far?

CF; We couldn’t see that well because of the trees. It was in a riverbank. It slammed into a river bank. I say them lifting one up with the crane.

Q: Did anyone else talk to you about what was going on?

CF: There were some solders, but I don’t think they were from the Air Force.

Q: Where do you think they were from then?

CF: I don’t know. They were wearing uniforms. I didn’t pay no attention cause I just wanted to go with the Sheriff to get the heck out of there before something happened.

Q: When you guys were in the car to go pick the guy up, did you discuss or talk about what you had seen with the Sheriff?

An image of an "alien" from a TV show about Roswell (Image: Image net)

CF: No. I didn’t know what they were and he didn’t either or where they came from or nothin.

Q: Did you see any blood on the bodies?

CF: I don’t know…. I guess they were dead.

Q: You’re 81 years old now. When and where were you born?

CF: I was born in I don’t know what city.

Q: You have been in the army?

CF: I sure have, before I became a Deputy Sheriff.

Q: So when this thing at Roswell happened, you were already out of the Army and were a Deputy Sheriff. That happened in 1947. Now it’s 1999. That was 52 years ago, Charlie. And you still remember it clearly?

The Deputy Sheriff gave his interview before he died (Image: Irena Scott)

CF: Yeh, pretty clear.

Q: Has anyone ever talked to you or asked you to talk about what happened...like to the Government, cause there’s a lot of research going on now because of the cover-up.

CF: There was one that came around, and I told him to shut up and not come around. I don’t know who they were. That was when I was Deputy Sheriff.

Q: When you saw the saucer, can you remember in your mind what it looked like. Can you draw it?

CF: No….you draw it?

(Note: Charlie had the interviewer draw because he broke his arm and can’t use it). He directed her to draw a circle (not an oval). Then he directed her to draw another circle with the circle. This was a drawing of the top of the saucer. Charlie was standing on top of the opposite side of the bank of the dry creek bed where the saucer had crashed.

The office of UFO witness Deputy Sheriff Charles H Fogus of Howard County (Image: Irena Scott)

Q: Were you standing above it?

CF: I was standing on the back side. The saucer hit the bank on this side of the creek and I was standing on the other side of the bank, at the top of the hill. I was looking down at the site.

Q: So you had a ‘bird’s eye view‘, that’s why you were able to see the top of it?

CF: I didn’t have a ‘bird’s eye, I’ve got my own eyes (he laughs)

(showing Charlie the drawing the interviewer says "if this is the top (of the saucer), how much higher were you?"

CF: Probably about 20 feet above it.

Q: So, that’s why you saw the top (of the saucer). And you say, that from here to here (across the top of the saucer - diameter) is about 100 feet.

CF: It was evenly round.

A new book - UFOs TODAY, 70 Years of Misinformation, Lies and Government Cover-Ups By Irena Scott PhD - details the incident (Image: Irena Scott)

Q: So it was absolutely round…. Not oval shaped and you were 20 feet above it, that’s why you saw the top. Did you see the fingers and hands?

CF: No, they were covered up. But I saw the head.

Q: But you said you saw the feet.

CF: Yeah, later on, when they were passing by I saw the feet. I could see them lifting it up with the crane. They wouldn’t let you close enough when they were puttin’ them into the truck. When they were liftin' them on the crane you could see them layin’ on that thing.

Q: You said the body was covered. Were the arms layin on the stomach under the cover?

CF: When the wind blew, the cover went back so you could see the face. The same way with the feet.

UFOs TODAY – 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation and Government Cover-Ups by Irena Scott is out now on Amazon.

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9.7 Million-Year-Old Teeth Found in Germany Could Recast Human History

Astartling discovery in Germany has caused scientists to question historical records regarding the evolution of man. Researchers from the Natural History Museum in Mainz announced Friday that they excavated 9.7 million-year-old teeth fossils from the Rhine river. What makes this finding so remarkable is that these teeth appear to be potentially hominin and considerably older than similar specimens found in Africa — a mysterious possibility that could rewrite what we know about where early human life emerged.

In a preprint published by ResearchGate, a team of researchers led by Natural History Museum deputy director Herbert Lutz write that they found two teeth — an upper left canine and an upper right first molar — that are “exceptionally well preserved and obviously come from the body of unknown sex.”

Ancient teeth could rewrite human history. Archeologists found 9.7 million year-old teeth that might have belonged to a Lucy-like hominid. 

It’s believed that these teeth belonged to a great ape that was potentially an early hominin species, one that could have been related to members of the African hominin tribe. The canine tooth, in particular, is indicative that this ancient being is unlike any other specimen found in northern Europe.

“It’s something completely new, something previously unknown to science,” Lutz told ResearchGate. “It’s a complete mystery where this individual came from, and why nobody’s ever found a tooth like this somewhere before.”

Rhine The Rhine River in Mainz, Germany. 

While Lutz and his team are wary of speculating exactly what this finding means, they are hopeful that this finding can help fill in the holes of the fossil record and a new species could may be added to the family tree. These teeth most closely resemble the teeth of the famous early human Lucy, who existed 3.2 million years ago, and 4.4 million-year-old skeletal remains also found in Ethiopia. If subsequent analysis proves the researcher’s belief that these teeth are indeed 9.7 million years old, that would make this specimen much older — which raises questions about how the heck it got to Germany.

The molar fossil on the left and the canine fossil on the right. 

“It’s possible that, with the morphology of this canine tooth being so similar to more recent examples from Africa, the species could be related,” says Lutz. “That would mean that a group of primates was in Europe before they were in Africa.”

The dig site in Eppelsheim, Germany.

Another potential way this ancient European specimen could have had these advanced canines is via the phenomenon of convergence, an evolutionary biology process where organisms that are not closely related still independently evolve to share similar traits, even if they live in different areas and have never interacted. These traits evolve because both groups of organisms had to adapt to similar ecological niches.

Hopefully, answers will begin to emerge as the scientist begin to analyze the specimens. High-resolution x-rays will be used to examine the inner structure of the enamel, which will reveal information about how old the individual was and whether it developed healthily. They will also examine the wear-and-tear on the chewing surface of the teeth, which can indicate what it’s diet was like.

That’s not to say that the researchers aren’t acutely confident they have something big on their hands: They actually discovered the teeth a year ago, and are only now confident enough to publish a paper saying these 9.7 million-year-old chompers are the real deal.

“We want to collaborate with other researchers to process these finds, and hopefully in one or two years, we’ll know a lot more about what we’ve got on our hands,” says Lutz. “It’s definitely a fantastic, exciting story.”

Photos via Wikimedia Commons/Research Gate, Flickr / Florian Christoph, ResearchGate/Natural History Museum Mainz , ResearchGate/Natural History Museum MainzWritten by Sarah Sloat More articles by Sarah•Follow Sarah on Twitter

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Prehistoric teeth fossils dating back 9.7 million years 'could rewrite human history'

Prehistoric teeth fossils dating back 9.7 million years 'could rewrite human history'

'This is a tremendous stroke of luck, but also a great mystery'

Tom Embury-Dennis 

Paleontologists in Germany have discovered 9.7 million-year-old fossilised teeth that a German politician has hailed as potentially “rewriting" human history

The dental remains were found by scientists sifting through gravel and sand in a former bed of the Rhine river near the town of Eppelsheim.

They resemble those belonging to “Lucy”, a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton of an extinct primate related to humans and found in Ethiopia. 

However, they do not resemble those of any other species found in Europe or Asia.

Scientists were so confused by the find they held off from publishing their research for the past year, Deutsche Welle reports. 

Herbert Lutz, director at the Mainz Natural History Museum and head of the research team, told local media: "They are clearly ape teeth. Their characteristics resemble African finds that are four to five million years younger than the fossils excavated in Eppelsheim. 

“This is a tremendous stroke of luck, but also a great mystery."

At a press conference announcing the discovery, the mayor of Mainz suggested the find could force scientists to reassess the history of early humans. 

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"I don't want to over-dramatise it, but I would hypothesise that we shall have to start rewriting the history of mankind after today," he said. 

Axel von Berg, a local archaeologist, said the new findings would “amaze experts”. 

With the first paper on the research having just been published, the “real work” to unlock the mystery is only just beginning, Dr Lutz said.

Although there is abundant fossil evidence that great apes were roaming Europe millions of years ago, there has been no confirmed cases of hominins – species closely related to humans – on the continent.

The current scientific consensus proposes that modern humans evolved out of east Africa somewhere between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago, before dispersing around the world as recently as 70,000 years ago. 

The teeth will be on display from the end of October at a state exhibition, before heading to Mainz’s Natural History Museum. 

The region where the find was made has been an attraction for fossil hunters for almost 200 years. 

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9,7 miljoen jaar oude fossielen kunnen menselijke geschiedenis herschrijven. Deze archeologen stuiten op groot mysterie

9,7 miljoen jaar oude fossielen kunnen menselijke geschiedenis herschrijven. Deze archeologen stuiten op groot mysterie

9,7 miljoen jaar oude fossielen kunnen menselijke geschiedenis herschrijven. Deze archeologen stuiten op groot mysterie

Duitse archeologen hebben 9,7 miljoen jaar oude fossielen gevonden die de menselijke geschiedenis weleens zouden kunnen herschrijven.

De tandresten zijn gevonden bij de plaats Eppelsheim en doen denken aan fossielen van Lucy, een 3,2 miljoen jaar oud skelet van een menselijke voorouder dat in Ethiopië is gevonden.

Ze vertonen echter geen gelijkenissen met botten van andere soorten die in Europa of Azië zijn gevonden, waardoor de Out of Africa-theorie op de tocht komt te staan.

Uitstelden

Wetenschappers waren zo verbaasd door de vondst dat ze de publicatie van hun resultaten een jaar uitstelden, schrijft Die Welt.

Hoofdonderzoeker Herbert Lutz, directeur van het Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz, vertelde aan lokale media: “Dit zijn duidelijk tanden van een aap. Ze doen denken aan Afrikaanse vondsten die vier tot vijf miljoen jaar jonger zijn dan de fossielen die in Eppelsheim zijn opgegraven.”

“We hebben ongelooflijk veel geluk gehad, maar het is ook een groot mysterie,” voegde hij toe.

Herschrijven

Tijdens een persconferentie over de ontdekking suggereerde de burgemeester van Mainz dat de vondst wetenschappers kan dwingen om de geschiedenis van de vroege mens te herzien.

“Ik wil de zaken niet dramatiseren, maar na vandaag zullen we denk ik moeten beginnen met het herschrijven van de menselijke geschiedenis,” zei hij.

De lokale archeoloog Axel von Berg zei dat de nieuwe bevindingen ‘experts zullen verbazen’.

Echte werk

Hoewel de eerste paper over het onderzoek net is gepubliceerd, is het echte werk pas net begonnen, aldus dr. Lutz.

De tanden worden vanaf eind oktober tentoongesteld. In het gebied waar de bijzondere vondst is gedaan zijn al bijna 200 jaar fossielenjagers actief.

Foto: Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz

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Witnesses report landing of a UFO near São Paulo, Brazil

Witnesses report landing of a UFO near São Paulo, Brazil

A team of researchers investigate the alleged landing of an Unidentified Flying Object in Peruíbe, near São Paulo in Brazil..

The event already occurred in the early hours of October 7, but was kept confidential as not to attract the attention of onlookers. An official statement has been released on Thursday, October 19, 2017.

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During the investigation local authorities decided to close the area, which is located at the back of a house on Rua 19, in the Balneário São João Batista 3 neighborhood, not too far away from the central part of the city, for the public, to avoid that onlookers could hamper the work of the researchers.

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Residents living near the alleged landing site reported seeing a light on a terrain at dawn, afterwards they found marks on the vegetation.

Other residents reported that at the time of the alleged landing, the homes in the surroundings were without electricity, while a couple reported that they saw a beam of light on that ground, and in another moment, that light approached their house.

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Researcher Saga Susseliton Souza explains: “We have looked at it and we already have noticed that it was something that was not made by a human. It was a UFO that landed there in circular movements, given the fact that the vegetation was not broken, but just bent.”

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“Peruíbe Prefeitura has carried out the marking of the terrain and aerial images of the vegetation that was altered. We are still in the research phase, but we have already collected images, analyzed the terrain and heard the witnesses so we hope to get clarity on this strange event the coming days”, Sara said. (Credit images G1.globo.com - Above text is a translation.)

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Moon-like Object circles around the Earth as a "quasi-satellite” Astronomers Say

Moon-like Object circles around the Earth as a "quasi-satellite” Astronomers Say

Was it a burned-out rocket booster, tumbling along a peculiar near-earth orbit around the sun, and only occasionally getting close enough to be studied with even the largest telescopes?

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Not at all, as it turns out. While, based on previous observations, most astronomers had strongly suspected that object 2016 HO3 was an ordinary asteroid and not space junk, it took a team of astronomers led by Vishnu Reddy, assistant professor at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, working with one of the world's largest telescopes, the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), on Mt. Graham in Southeastern Arizona, to learn the true nature of this near-Earth object.

The astronomers are convinced that 2016 HO3 is a small near-Earth object (NEO) measuring no more than 100 meters (330 feet) across that, while orbiting the Sun, also appears to circle around the Earth as a "quasi-satellite.”

Although the provenance of the object is unknown it seems on timescales of a few centuries, this “quasi-satellite” (Black Knight Satellite?) remains within 38-100 lunar distances from us.

  

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Author Claims People Close To Find The Truth About Death Planet Nibiru Are Kept Silence

Author Claims People Close To Find The Truth About Death Planet Nibiru Are Kept Silence

Mysterious death planet hurtling towards Earth has been in the news in recent times. The theories about it colliding our world have been circulating in different media outlets for many years. According to conspiracy theorist David Meade, politicians are already preparing for the cataclysm in nuclear bunkers.

The same man also suggests that mysterious Men in Black are responsible for the death of researchers who get too close to the truth. Meade believes astrophysicist Rodney Marks and Dr Robert Harrington both died of the common factor and that could be Planet X. He thinks there have been strange instances.

Meade stresses that Dr Harrington mysteriously died before he could say anything. Then in 2000, a man died of supposedly alcohol poisoning, according to Mead.

Dr Robert Harrington Dr Robert Harrington

Believers say that dozens have died since 1947, including JFK. They believe that the assassination of JFK may have been arranged to prevent him disclosing the truth on UFOs.

Nancy Lieder, a website writer who claimed to have an alien implant in her brain, predicted that Nibiru would destroy the world in 2003, but of course, it did not happen. In 2012, Planet X was predicted to destroy our planet to coincide with the Mayan apocalypse. It was also widely anticipated that the mysterious dead world would hit in December 2015, then in April 2016, but the predictions did not take place. It was also predicted again to hit Earth in December 2016, but with the same result. Now David Meade predicted it to happen on October 22.

Many do not believe the existence of Nibiru anymore, and one can only hope that David Meade has got his excuses ready on October 22.

NASA has thoroughly debunked the Nibiru, saying it is one of those Internet hoaxes with no factual basis.

However, believers say that Nibiru exists and it just a matter of time it will hit Earth and destroy our existence.

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Army Military Ordered Off the Bait Diggers after Witnessing the Odd UFO

Army Military Ordered Off the Bait Diggers after Witnessing the Odd UFO

Military Aliens

UFO is anything that is not explainable readily and that it appears to move through or at least is suspended in the air, used primarily to refer to the objects that seem to be of small yet familiar aircraft size. While most people believe that UFO is just a fictional character, they cannot deny the fact that there are too many people who witnessed them. Recently, two workers worked at the beach. These workers have claimed to have seen odd objects entering in the Wilsthorpe Beach, nearby the Bridlington in East Yorkshire. Paul Sinclair, the Paranormal investigator shares this story called the Wilsthorpe incident, which has been branded as the Britain’s latest Roswell owing to the mysterious military activity that is seemingly connected to the alien sightings. According to him, the two men were working at the bait shop nearby Bridlington Harbour when it occurred.

The two workers were at the Wilsthorpe digging during a high tide. It was a place where the bait shop owner told Mr Sinclair that they had reported seeing various bizarre triangles entering into the sea. Later on, they were surrounded by armed soldiers who asked them what they were doing and where they were going. They were being interrogated and were a bit off with them. However, one soldier threatened to arrest them if they are going somewhere. The bizarre claims of these two workers concerned the night of September 14, 2009, when the woman went to turn off the lights to sleep, and she saw a glow outside. Before she opened the front door to see what it was, the latter saw glowing several unidentified objects above the coast. It remained for half an hour. Next day, two helicopters full of RAF staffs landed at the beach.

Mr Sinclair submitted to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) a Freedom of Information request to know why the military operations took place on September 15. However, “routine military exercise”were the reasons for such operations. However, Mr Sinclair continues to investigate the case since he believes that such operation is connected to a UFO activity.

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Virtual reality takes you on a trip to Mars with NASA rover – and to alien worlds, too

Virtual reality takes you on a trip to Mars with NASA rover – and to alien worlds, too

Access Mars screenshot “Access Mars” provides 3-D views of the Red Planet as captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover. (NASA / JPL Illustration)

NASA has been offering virtual-reality tours of Mars for years — but now, with Google’s help, the space agency has come up with one of the most accessible tours yet.

“Access Mars” lays out a 3-D terrain for five of the spots scanned by NASA’s Curiosity rover, ranging from its landing site to the place where it’s hanging out now, more than five years later.

The tour can be experienced via a desktop browser, on mobile devices as a head-tracking display seen through a Cardboard-style viewer, and on virtual-reality and augmented-reality headsets.

You can jump from one spot to another, teleport between the five tour stops, or check out explanatory placards that are accompanied by audio narration. There’s even the sound of wind in the background to give you an eerie sense of Martian aloneness.

NASA says the experience was adapted from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s OnSight software, which is used to help scientists visualize the rover’s surroundings as they plan its route. The software was developed using WebVR, an open-source standard, with support from Google’s Creative Labs team.

“We’ve been able to leverage VR and AR technologies to take our scientists to Mars every single day,” Victor Luo, lead project manager at JPL’s Ops Lab, said today in a NASA news release. “With ‘Access Mars,’ everyone in the world can ride along.”

NASA’s other forays into VR and AR include “Mars 2030,” an immersive VR experience created in collaboration with Fusion Media Group; “Destination: Mars,” a mixed-reality presentation that NASA and Microsoft put together for NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center in Florida; and ProtoSpace, a Hololens application that JPL is using to tweak the design for NASA’s 2020 Mars rover.

But wait … there’s more!

If you’re hankering to roam beyond the solar system, check out the 360-degree YouTube video created by Engine House VFX and “We the Curious,” an interactive science center in the English city of Bristol.

The 11-minute video takes you on a tour of six extrasolar planets, ranging from Osiris, a storm-ravaged “hot Jupiter” that orbits a star 154 light-years from Earth, to Kepler-62e, a potential water world that’s 1,200 light-years away and is thought to have a super-ocean.

Like “Access Mars,” the exoplanet tour can be experienced on a desktop, a mobile phone or with a headset in head-tracking 3-D. There’s a running commentary that’s provided by planetary scientists from the University of Exeter Astrophysics Research Group. Funding was provided by the University of Exeter.

We won’t really know what these exoplanets look like until we create telescopes big enough to get a snapshot. But the views come close to scientists’ conceptions — so close that NASA used the imagery of WASP-121b to illustrate a report about the weird planet’s stratosphere in August.

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Red (Planet) alert: Future astro-heroes face shocking adventures on Martian moon Phobos

Red (Planet) alert: Future astro-heroes face shocking adventures on Martian moon Phobos

You may want to resist current plans to discharge a base on the surface

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Planet outside our solar system may contain life

Planet outside our solar system may contain life

I can’t say I’ve always been an avid believer in the existence of extraterrestrial life.

I never truly considered that life might exist somewhere else in our universe — at least not until I realized just how tiny our planet really is.

Once I understood that we are nothing more than a microscopic speck of dust within the Milky Way, it then seemed impossible to me that there wouldn’t be life out there, somewhere.

While I won’t go so far as to say that there are aliens duking it out on some light-speed traveling spacecraft (although that would fulfill all our science fiction fantasies), I do firmly believe that a community of single-celled organisms are replicating their days away somewhere up in the sky.

I’m not the only one; real life scientists have set to work scouring the universe for planets with the right conditions to cultivate life. And this past year, they’ve found one: planet e of the TRAPPIST-1 system.

TRAPPIST-1 is a dwarf star located 39 light years away in the constellation Aquarius. Compared to our sun, it is much, much cooler and much, much smaller. Because not as much heat is given off by TRAPPIST-1, the probability of life around the star should logically be small.

However, because of the tight orbit of TRAPPIST-1’s seven known exoplanets, they actually may be within an inhabitable zone. The planets are all terrestrial (rocky, as opposed to gas), approximately Earth-sized and transit their sun (meaning they pass in front of TRAPPIST-1, from our view on Earth), making it our current, most ideal system to research and analyze for life.

The seven planets of TRAPPIST-1, from closest to furthest from their sun, are planets b, c, d, e, f, g and h. Researcher Eric T. Wolf of University of Colorado, Boulder, set out on a mission to further research these planets and analyze their propensity to cultivate life.

Since Earth is our one and only example of a life-supporting planet, our search for other habitable planets means looking for exoplanets similar to Earth. Long story short, we must find something we all likely take for granted: liquid water.

Now at this point you might be asking the same question that I have asked for years: Why should we assume that life needs water? Isn’t it possible for some tiny single celled organism to live in an environment without water?

The answer is that liquid water is a highly unique substance and acts in organic processes in such a specific way that we have yet to find a molecule to replace it.

That’s why, in Wolf’s quest to determine the probability of life in the TRAPPIST-1 system, he evaluated the potential atmospheres of the planets to determine if they could retain the heat needed to keep water in its liquid state.

Liquid water requires a surface temperature of 273 K to 373 K. Too low, it freezes, and too high, it turns to gas.

All the planets were initially thought to be in the range, but Wolf found that only TRAPPIST-1e, the middle of the seven planets, could realistically support life. He used the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Atmosphere Model version 4, which has previously been used to study many Earth-like atmospheres, to simulate the conditions of their surfaces over time.

Assuming the initial conditions of a surface with complete liquid water and various atmospheric conditions with nitrogen, carbon dioxide and gaseous water (conditions similar to Earth), Wolf ran the simulation to determine the feasibility of life.

Wolf found that planets b, c and d, the innermost planets, would experience a “runaway greenhouse” effect, a vicious cycle where the atmosphere traps heat and that heat causes a thicker atmosphere, which traps even more heat and on and on. This is very bad for the presence of liquid water, since it would quickly (in terms of an astronomical timeframe) boil and evaporate.

Planets f, g and h, the outermost planets, would meet the opposite fate, sliding into a “snowball state.” Even at the most ideal conditions, the atmosphere of these planets could not retain enough heat to keep their surfaces from becoming covered in ice.

TRAPPIST-1e, however, seems to hit the jackpot. Under a multitude of atmospheric conditions, planet e can maintain a stable enough temperature to retain liquid water, allowing for life to possibly begin. And just like that, the possibility of finding extraterrestrial life has once again increased.

Although the remote possibility of finding water in space may seem underwhelming, I must disagree.

It is amazing that humans can point cameras to the heavens and determine the feasibility of life staring back at us.

The system of TRAPPIST-1 was first discovered in 2011, and in six years we have certainly learned a lot about the universe outside our little solar system. This dwarf star system, 39 light years away from you and me, is a breeding ground for imagination that is currently being turned into science.

And, considering the young age of our adventure into astrobiology, it makes me wonder: How many more life-sustaining planets are we soon to find?

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NASA Study Makes Search For Exoplanet Life Easier By Studying Water Vapor

NASA Study Makes Search For Exoplanet Life Easier By Studying Water Vapor

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Why haven’t we had alien contact? Blame icy ocean worlds

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Geysers shoot from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, providing evidence for a global subsurface ocean.

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Why haven’t we had alien contact? Blame icy ocean worlds

Might ET be buried under too much ice to phone Earth? That’s what planetary scientist Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, has concluded may be delaying our contact with alien civilizations. Most extraterrestrial creatures are likely deep inside their home planets, in subsurface oceans crusted over in frozen water ice, according to a new proposal at this year's American Astronomy Society Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Provo, Utah. The hypothesis could explain the lack of signals from other technologically advanced civilizations, a conundrum known as the Fermi paradox.

It’s only recently that astronomers have come to appreciate how common oceans are in our solar system; evidence for them can be seen on several moons of Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune, and even distant Pluto. These worlds all have water ice as a major component of their crusts, which forms towering mountains and cracked canyons on their surfaces but melts into liquid water at lower depths. Hydrothermal vents on these ocean beds might pump nutrients into their surroundings, similar to ecosystems at the bottom of Earth’s oceans. Such nurseries for life—shielded from space by a thick ice shell—might even be more productive than our own exposed environment.

And should living organisms on icy ocean worlds evolve into intelligent creatures, they probably wouldn’t know the night sky as well as us humans. Perhaps the equivalent of their “space program” would simply be boring through to the frozen surface of their planet, Stern suggests. His proposal wasn’t based on new evidence, but for the first time links up the prevalence of icy ocean worlds with the lack of alien signals.

The idea is intriguing, says psychologist Douglas Vakoch, president of the San Francisco, California–based Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence, though he believes there’s no need to invoke the Fermi paradox. Biochemical indications of life are simply hard to detect remotely, he says, and it will likely take new telescopes and techniques to find them. If they don’t find us first, says Stern, it could be because they decide long-distance communication isn’t worthwhile, especially if they think everybody else is trapped in their own little icy bubbles. 

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My Experience Photographing UFOs

My Experience Photographing UFOs

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Welcome to another edition of Let’s Talk Photography!

Imagine this; you’re out shooting and you capture some really beautiful landscape shots or you’ve just taken a bunch of portraits and the sun was perfect, the lighting was in just the right place, the colors and composition were immaculate and you’ve never had sharper photos in all your life. The excitement is so intense that you just can’t wait to get home and get the photos on the computer and start working on them so you can enjoy your new masterpieces. You set aside the entire evening so you can be undisturbed and you wait anxiously while the photos are downloading into your software and then you pull up the first photo and that’s when you see them. To your surprise you stare at first, then you think “did I get them in every shot?” So, you cull through your photos and see them in just about every photo where the sky was in the frame. At this point you simply can’t believe what you are seeing! Then it finally hits home … “I’ve just captured a bunch of UFOs!”

That’s right, UFOs! Unidentified Fuzzy Orbs that appear where the sky is or where any bright part of the photo might be. In this photo, I’ve circled one of them but you should be able to see several all around the sky. At first, you start wiping your screen because maybe it’s a bit of dust that found its way onto your computer monitor. Then you realize every shot has the exact same pattern of dark orbs and you have the revelation that there must be some dust on your camera lens. If that’s the case, you can breathe more easily and give the lens a good cleaning before heading out for your next shoot.

For those of you with a point and shoot or fixed lens camera, that may be where the problem exists. Something got stuck to the front of the lens and it appeared in the shots as very large, faint, but noticeable orbs or smudges. However, those with removeable lens cameras may have to go a couple steps further to find the culprits.

First, you should understand that you can tell almost exactly where the dust is by the size and shape of your UFOs. If they are very large dark or light spots in your image then it’s most likely on the front of the lens. If the dark spot is clearly circular but still large and very soft then it will likely be on the back element of the lens, where the lens attaches to the camera. If the spot is a small, hard, very defined circle, then the dust is inside the camera and stuck to your sensor.

Dust on the lens is the easiest to take care of. Simply remove the lens and give both elements a wipe with a lens cleaning cloth. Dust on the sensor is a different animal all together. The sensor is extremely sensitive and does not like to be touched by anyone or anything. To access the sensor on a DSLR with a mirror, you must lock the mirror in the up, or open, position and you’ll see the sensor directly behind it. On a newer mirrorless camera, the sensor is right there when you remove the lens.

Most of the time, a puff of air will remove the dust and you’ll be good to go. Don’t use a canned or compressed air solution like you would on a computer. You don’t want to blast air onto the sensor. Instead, you can pick up a sensor cleaning kit on the Internet that will include a rubber ball with a small tube and brush on it that will allow you to squeeze a small puff of air and direct it onto the sensor. Never blow on it with your mouth because your breath will carry moisture that can damage the sensor or make the problem worse. Also, when cleaning your sensor like this, hold the camera above you with the sensor and the camera opening pointing down so all the dust that you dislodge will fall out and down. If you put the camera on the table so your looking down into the camera body while cleaning, then you’re just going to be blowing the dust around inside the camera body and it won’t fall out.

You can check to see if any dust remains by holding the camera in front of a light source and tilting the camera from side to side and up and down to see if you see anything on the shiny sensor. In the event a puff of air didn’t do the trick, you can use a cleaning swab and special cleaning fluid to “wipe” the sensor clean. I put “wipe” in quotes because you want to do this with the most delicate touch. Typically, you would wipe the top half of the sensor with one continuous wipe, then wipe the bottom half using the other side of the swab. Not a cotton swab! Do the Internet search for camera sensor cleaning kit and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Never, ever, ever use paper towels, toilet paper, facial tissues, or anything else that can come apart or leave more dust behind. These will all scratch your sensor and your lens if you use them.

Now check to see if you got rid of all the dust. Put your camera in aperture priority mode, set the ISO to the lowest number and turn off auto ISO and auto focus. Set the aperture to the highest number and aim the camera at the clear sky or, if indoors, aim it at a white sheet of paper or even your computer screen with a blank white screen. Zoom your lens, or move close enough so the white fills the entire frame and make sure your camera is completely out of focus. Now, take a picture. Look at the picture in the viewfinder and see if you can see any of those UFOs floating around in the shot. If so, you need to go back in. If not, you’re in great shape!

Until next week, happy shooting!

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Mysterieuze vormen ontdekt voor de kust van Florida. Zijn dit twee piramides?

Mysterieuze vormen ontdekt voor de kust van Florida. Zijn dit twee piramides?

Mysterieuze vormen ontdekt voor de kust van Florida. Zijn dit twee piramides?

Op internet wordt momenteel gespeculeerd over mysterieuze piramides op de bodem van de Atlantische Oceaan, schrijft de Britse Daily Mail.

In een video die op YouTube is geplaatst zouden twee oude bouwwerken voor de kust van de Bahama’s te zien zijn.

Volgens believers zijn ze het bewijs dat de regio vroeger werd bewoond door een beschaving die deed denken aan de Azteken.

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Scott Waring van de website UFO Sightings Daily speurde op Google Earth de oceaanbodem af op zoek naar onregelmatigheden, toen hij de vreemde vormen tegenkwam.

“Ik heb deze twee piramides bij het eiland New Providence op de zeebodem gevonden,” zegt hij in de video. “Het is niet ver van Florida.”

“De lijnen van de piramides zijn gemakkelijk te ontwaren en bewijs dat het nabijgelegen eiland ooit werd bewoond door een oude beschaving,” voegt hij toe.

Verweerd

Tyler Glockner van SecureTeam10 is het eens met Waring. “Ik moet zeggen dat deze [vormen] lijken op piramides,” zei hij. “Natuurlijk zijn ze door de jaren heen wel wat verweerd.”

“Als dit piramides zijn, kunnen ze veel ouder zijn dan de ruïnes die op aarde gevonden zijn en waar bijna niets meer van over is,” voegde hij toe.

Niet hetzelfde

Het tweetal merkt op dat de twee piramides niet hetzelfde zijn en dat één van de twee een perfect driehoekig bouwwerk is, net als de Grote Piramide van Gizeh.

Het andere lijkt meer op een trappenpiramide, zoals de beroemde Mayatempel van Chicen Itza.

Het filmpje is hieronder te bekijken:

Foto: YouTube

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OVERTUIGEND BEWIJS VOOR BUITENAARDS LEVEN OPGEDOKEN ( VIDEO )

OVERTUIGEND BEWIJS VOOR BUITENAARDS LEVEN OPGEDOKEN ( VIDEO )

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Buitenaards leven is precies wat het zegt; leven ergens in de kosmos, buiten de planeet waar wij met z'n allen bivakkeren. 

En als wij mensen niet de constructie hebben gebouwd op asteroïde 433, Eros, wie heeft het dan wel gedaan? 



Er zwerven talloze kleine planetoïden of asteroïden door ons zonnestelsel en van de meeste weten wie niet eens dat ze bestaan. Als ze in de buurt van de aarde dreigen te komen, dan schrikken we even wakker, maar verder is het de ver van mijn bed show.

Er is echter een asteroïde die wel ooit de aandacht heeft getrokken van onderzoekers op aarde.

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 is een kleine, ongebruikelijk langwerpige, planetoïde, die de aarde betrekkelijk dicht kan naderen in zijn sterk elliptische baan met een gemiddelde afstand van 218 miljoen km van de zon. Hij werd in dezelfde nacht (13 augustus 1898), onafhankelijk van elkaar, ontdekt door twee astronomen, in Berlijn en Nice.

Eros is in 2001 bezocht door de ruimtesonde NEAR Shoemaker die op 12 februari van dat jaar een landing uitvoerde met een snelheid van 6 km/h, nadat de ruimtesonde een jaar lang foto's maakte van Eros. 

Echter, voordat NEAR Shoemaker uiteindelijk terechtkwam op het oppervlak van Eros maakte deze ook de nodige foto's van deze planetoïde:


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En het is op één van die foto's dat er iets heel merkwaardigs te zien is. De meningen zijn nogal verdeeld over wat het precies is, maar dat het geen rots is zoals NASA ons op de mouw wil spelden, is duidelijk. 

Volgens NASA is het object dat duidelijk zichtbaar is op het oppervlak van Eros, een rots met een doorsnede van ongeveer 45 meter. Wat het verder wel moge zijn, weten wij ook niet, maar wel dat het geen rots is en iets dat door intelligente wezens moet zijn gebouwd.


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Uit de verzamelde gegevens van Eros blijkt dat hier sprake is van een planetoïde die tot wel 20.000 miljard kilo aan kostbare grondstoffen kan bevatten die op aarde zeldzaam zijn. Denk dan bijvoorbeeld aan goud of platinum en als dat zo is, dan kan datgene wat je op de foto ziet heel goed een bepaalde constructie zijn die door intelligente wezens daar ooit is geplaatst als onderdeel van de mijnbouw die daar misschien ooit heeft plaatsgevonden.


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Bovenstaande constructie is niet natuurlijk en dus zijn er bij de bouw daarvan intelligente wezens betrokken geweest.

Het bezoek van NEAR Shoemaker is het eerste dat de huidige beschaving op aarde heeft gebracht aan dit stuk ruimterots. Het is natuurlijk heel goed mogelijk dat eerdere beschavingen op aarde dusdanig ver gevorderd waren, dat ook zij in staat waren om constructies te bouwen op een planetoïde.

Of het waren intelligente wezens van andere planeten dan de onze. Hoe dan ook, met deze foto van een intelligent gemaakte constructie op een planetoïde is overtuigend aangetoond dat er leven bestaat buiten onze aarde. Buitenaards leven dus.

De originele foto bevindt zich nog steeds op de NASA website en is hier te vinden.

Tyler van Secureteam heeft bovenstaande foto ook ontdekt en in zijn video geeft hij nog meer voorbeelden van constructies op andere hemellichamen die absoluut door intelligente wezens gemaakt moeten zijn.

Hoelang blijft de bevolking nog doorlopen met de door de mainstream media aangebrachte oogkleppen? 


En van het buitenaardse willen we lezers nog even herinneren aan een zeer aardse aanbieding van Orjana deze week:

Omdat de herfst op het punt staat aan te breken en men dan vaak extra vatbaar wordt voor allerlei infecties hebben wij deze week een actie met colloïdaal zilverwater van Crystal wat door Niburulezers aangeschaft kan worden met een korting van tien procent. 

Bestel hier en voer bij het afrekenen de code 10collo in. Deze actie is geldig tot en met zondag 22 oktober.

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Cover-up Possible as UFO Landing is Investigated in Brazil

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Cover-up Possible as UFO Landing is Investigated in Brazil

Calling Tom DeLonge! Before you get too far along with your fundraising campaign in the U.S., you may want to take a quick trip to Brazil to see what’s going on near Sao Paulo where news is slowly leaking out about an alleged UFO landing in early October that seems to have been covered up by the Brazilian media until now.

Santos e Regiao is blaring the headline “Residents report alleged landing of ‘flying saucer’ on the coast of SP” and reporting that residents of Peruíbe, a coastal city west of Santos and southwest of Sao Paulo, allegedly saw a bright light around dawn on October 7 and found vegetation smashed to the ground as if a large craft had landed on it. The impression – measuring 13 by 2 meters (42.6 by 3.6 feet) – was not an elaborate geometric design like a crop circle (or in this case, rectangle) but was nonetheless cordoned off immediately by local officials to “avoid agglomerations that would hamper the work of the researchers.”

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Agglomerations? That would be ‘crowds of curious onlookers’ who would trample the site and everything else around it before investigators had a chance to do their jobs. Investigators like Saga Susseliton Souza, who claims to have 35 years experience in UFO investigations and had this to say after viewing the area:

“We looked at it in the last few days and we already noticed that it was something that was not made by a human. It was a UFO, really, that landed there in circular movements, so the vegetation was just crumpled.”

(Santos e Regiao)

Saga noted that electricity went out in the neighborhood at the time of the sighting and those living close to the ‘landing’ site reported “nausea and malaise.” The city was justified in keeping out “agglomerations.” When the “landing” was finally revealed by the media, around 100 people showed up to check things out. That’s probably just the beginning. Santos e Regiaoreports that Peruíbe is a hotbed for UFO activity, with 79 reported sightings listed on the UFO Hunters web site since 1998.

(Santos e Regiao)

With that many sightings, it’s not surprising that the city hosts an annual Ufological Meeting of Peruíbe (Santos e Regiaoreports over 1000 people attended in 2012) and is committed to ufology tourism. A survey of sightings made in 2010 found that most pass through eight points in the city where residents have seen UFOs, landing marks, lights and “luminous beings”

(Santos e Regiao )

It’s not clear if the latest ‘landing’ is at or near one of these points. Nor is it clear why it was not revealed for 10 days. However, Peruíbe officials seem committed to investigating and promoting UFO sightings and alien encounters, with the intent of making their city a center for what they call “Ufotourism.”

Hear that, Roswell?

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Top stories: Vanishing insects, merging neutron stars, and why we haven’t made alien contact

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Top stories: Vanishing insects, merging neutron stars, and why we haven’t made alien contact

Merging neutron stars generate gravitational waves and a celestial light show

Four times in the past 2 years, physicists working with mammoth gravitational-wave detectors have sensed something go bump in the night, sending invisible ripples through spacetime. This week, they announced the detection of a fifth such disturbance—but this time astronomers saw it, too, at every wavelength of light from gamma radiation to radio waves. Just as physicists had predicted, the unprecedented view of the cosmic cataclysm—in which two superdense neutron stars spiraled into each other—brought with it a cornucopia of insights, each of which by itself would count as a major scientific advance.

Analysis of China’s one-child policy sparks uproar

A new study of China’s one-child policy is roiling demography, sparking calls for the field’s leading journal to withdraw the paper. The controversy has ignited a debate over scholarly values in a discipline that some say prioritizes reducing population growth above all else. Chinese officials have long claimed that the one-child policy—in place from 1980 to 2016—averted some 400 million births, which they say aided global environmental efforts. Scholars have contested that number as flawed. But the new paper argues that the figure may, in fact, have merit.

Germany’s insects are disappearing

In just 3 decades, insect populations—everything from parasitic wasps to hoverflies and wild bees—have plummeted by more than 75% in German nature reserves, according to a new study. The reasons for the decline aren’t clear, but the pattern is consistent over a swath of western and northern Germany, and it’s likely having wide-ranging effects on plants and other animals, such as insect-eating birds.

Can the Museum of the Bible overcome the sins of the past?

Next month, the lavish Museum of the Bible will open its doors in Washington, D.C. The grandiose new venture is bankrolled by the Greens, the billionaire family that owns the arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby and that has donated to the museum hundreds of artifacts purchased on the antiquities market. But although the Museum of the Bible is trying to establish itself as a legitimate academic enterprise by hiring respected curators and consultants, scholars worry that it will use its artifacts to further an evangelical view of the Bible as historically accurate and immutable, and they wonder how many items in the museum’s collection may have been looted from archaeological sites.

Why haven’t we had alien contact? Blame icy ocean worlds

Might ET be buried under too much ice to phone Earth? That’s what one planetary scientist has concluded may be delaying our contact with alien civilizations. Most extraterrestrial creatures are likely deep inside their home planets, in subsurface oceans crusted over in frozen water ice. The hypothesis could explain the lack of signals from other technologically advanced civilizations, especially if they think that everyone else is trapped in their own icy bubbles.

Why wolves are better team players than dogs

Dogs may be social butterflies, but wolves are top dog when it comes to working together as a team. That’s because, unlike dogs, wolves haven’t evolved to avoid conflict; instead, members of a pack “sort things out” as they forage together, according to a new study. The work calls into question a long-held assumption that domestication fostered more cooperative individuals.

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Newsweek special edition covers UFOs and the search for aliens in a positive light

Newsweek special edition covers UFOs and the search for aliens in a positive light

Newsweek recently released a special edition magazine titled Life Beyond Earth? The Mission to Find the Answer, and while one might expect it to be dominated by stories about NASA’s search for extraterrestrial microbes, or the SETI Institutes search for extraterrestrial radio signals, instead it is full of information about topics such as UFO investigations and alien abductions. That may make some of our readers cringe in fear of ridicule, but the stories are balanced and largely treat the topics positively.

The magazine has a lot of pictures. Some of them are rare pictures in remarkable condition. The kind of pictures writers like me search hours for, so that is why this excited me so much. Some of the pictures were even provided by OpenMinds.tv. With so many pictures, the stories are short, but cover a large variety of topics.

The stories range from ancient alien type topics to the Mars rover. What is exciting is that the UFO and alien stories are mixed in with the conventional science based stories, treating them all equally. There is also diversity within the topics. For example, their coverage of alien abduction covers experts who describe more positive experiences, and those who do not. More popular cases such as Betty and Barney Hill, the first alleged abduction to receive media coverage, and Travis Walton, are also included.

Photo of Travis Walton (right) with Jillian Björgin in the Newsweek Special Edition.

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As an example of the tenor of the stories, when dealing with abduction they include a 1993 study from the Journal of Abnormal Psychology which found people claiming to be abducted by aliens to be as intelligent and prone to fantasy as the general public.

Another interesting aspect of the magazine is a section on how UFOs and aliens have influenced art. From wild comic books in the 1950s, to blockbuster movie and TV shows, like the X-Files, today.

Yvonne Smith (upper left), Reuben Langdon (lower left) and Alejandro Rojas – Me (right) in Newsweek Special Edition.

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The magazine even recommends resources for more information, including books, and a particular interesting podcast called Open Minds UFO Radio. You will have to check the podcast out.

Open Minds UFO Radio in Newsweek Special Edition.

(Credit: Newsweek)

You should also check out the magazine. It is on the shelves in every grocery store, so it is easy to find.

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Roswell: Do We Know More Than The Government?

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Roswell: Do We Know More Than The Government?

That may sound like a strange – even bizarre – question to ask. But, stay with me. There’s absolutely no doubt that something very strange happened on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in the summer of 1947. There is intriguing witness testimony which supports the idea that people were warned not to talk about what they knew – as in ever. There were, allegedly, death threats made too. Tales even exist of people being murdered to prevent the truth of Roswell from surfacing outside of the secret world of government. But, that was then – seventy years ago. What about now? That’s the important question. It’s a question which gets to the heart of the title of this article.

Whenever elements of the U.S. Government, such as the GAO (the Government Accountability Office) or the Air Force have anything to say about Roswell, Ufologists typically scream “Lies!” “Disinformation!” I saw this, and still remember it, when back in the 1990s the Air Force published its reports on Roswell. One surfaced in 1994 and was soon followed by a massive report in excess of 1,000 pages in length. The Air Force concluded that, most likely, what came down on the Foster Ranch was a huge “Mogul” balloon array, designed to monitor for early Soviet atomic bomb tests. Then, in July 1997 – which was the 50th anniversary of Roswell – the Air Force published another report on Roswell. This one was on the controversial matter of the bodies found at Roswell – which the Air Force suggested were probably crash-test dummies. Ufology was in a state of uproar, pointing figures at what it considered to be a bunch of liars. But, those same ufologists were wrong.

I don’t think that a Mogul balloon came down on the ranch – at all. Nor do I think that the bodies were mere dummies. But, I don’t think the government/Air Force lied. I think they genuinely went looking for answers, but couldn’t find anything solid, and – as a result – came up with what they truly considered to be a viable answer. Or answers. I am of the opinion that when, in the 1990s, the Air Force and the GAO came out with their reports on Roswell, they had less answers than did Ufology.

Within Ufology there is an (almost required) assumption that if what the government states about UFOs doesn’t accord with what Ufology wants to hear, then it must be a lie. Not so. A careful and close read of the combined Roswell reports of the USAF and the GAO makes it very clear that officialdom’s theories were simply that: theories. The Air Force openly admitted there was no definitive proof that dummies or Mogul balloons were the cause of all the fuss. The Air Force admitted that crash-test dummies were not used in the area until the early 1950s. Their theory was that the witnesses to the dummies got the years wrong, confusing the fifties with 1947. The Air Force also admitted that while it found thousands of pages of documents on Mogul – and in numerous military archives – not a single such document confirmed that it was a Mogul balloon that came down in Lincoln County.

In my view, if the USAF was lying, we would have seen a far more robust, well-constructed cover-story that addressed every avenue and plugged every hole. But, the reports do not do that. Instead, they show that the USAF tried to come up with what they thought were probably the answers, but couldn’t prove it. Then, there’s the matter of one of the key military/intelligence figures in Roswell: Sheridan Cavitt. Certainly someone who knew exactly what happened at Roswell, he took the truth to the grave with him. When, in the early 1990s, the Air Force was busily trying to figure out what the hell happened at Roswell, Cavitt was still alive. The Air Force contacted him and plans were made for a face-to-face interview. It happened in May 1994, in Cavitt’s own home.

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The Air Force told Cavitt that, in their minds, the Roswell debris was very likely from a vast Mogul array – which might have explained the huge debris field found on the Foster Ranch. Cavitt, though, was having none of it. He firmly told the Air Force that what he saw and handled was a regular, tiny weather-balloon and nothing else. End of story. This caused the Air Force some big problems: they were pretty sure that Mogul was the answer. But, the one still-living man that just about everyone in the know said was on-site back in forty-seven was denying the Mogul scenario. As I see it, had the Air Force been engaged in conspiracy and lies – and knew what happened at Roswell – they would have had Cavitt on-board to help uphold and bolster their theory. After all, Cavitt was there. He saw what it was that came down. And he knew the truth. But, he chose to direct the Air Force to nothing stranger than a weather-balloon. For me, this is evidence that the USAF was genuinely looking for answers, but their primary guy (who they had their hopes on) was skillfully steering them away from what he knew – and doing so with something as simple as a weather-balloon. Cavitt knew the truth. The Air Force didn’t know the truth. And that’s just how Cavitt wanted it. Whether Cavitt was acting alone, or some deeply hidden cabal ordered him to try and keep the Air Force away from the truth, is an issue that still requires an answer.

All of this leads me to believe that neither the GAO nor the USAF knew the truth of Roswell. I’m sure that is still the case, today. But, how could that be? How could there be so many books written on Roswell, but the Air Force can’t find any solid data? Well, if aliens crashed (which I don’t believe) then it’s not impossible that over the years and decades the truth has been buried so deeply that not even elected officials and high-ranking members of the military can get close to the truth.

There is another possible scenario too; a theory which I think is far more likely. My recent book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, suggests that Roswell was a dark and disturbing example of “human experimentation,” which was born out of the likes of the controversial Operation Paperclip. It’s entirely possible – as several sources told me – that all of the incriminating data and files were destroyed decades ago, chiefly to protect the guilty parties who crossed the line in big-time fashion.

This latter possibility may provide a viable reason why the government knows less than we do: if the files are all gone – relegated to the furnace – then, today, there is nothing to find. That may explain why such a monumental event has seemingly vanished off the face of the Earth. The result? The military came up with Mogul balloons and crash-test dummies; honest attempts to find the truth of an event that has been completely eradicated – apart from in the depths of old, fading memories of even older people. So, yes, the chances are that we, the UFO research community, really do know more than the government itself knows about Roswell. Of course, the same community doesn’t want to hear that all of the Roswell material is long gone: burned and shredded. They don’t want to hear that because it implies that finding the truth may be completely impossible. Which is very probably the case.

Just because the Air Force published reports concluding that down-to-earth things caused all the monumental fuss, doesn’t mean they lied. It means they failed to solve something which is very possibly now unsolvable. Why? Because there is nothing left to find, that’s why. And there was nothing left to find when all the controversy about balloons and dummies was afoot back in the nineties.

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Aliens May Actually Be Billion-Year-Old Robots

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Aliens May Actually Be Billion-Year-Old Robots

This could ruin a lot of good science fiction movies … and create interesting plots for the next generation of them, not to mention influencing how humans deal with space aliens when they first encounter each other (assuming they haven’t already). A timely article by The Daily Galaxy reviews the study “Alien Minds” by Susan Schneider where the professor and author discusses her theory that our first meeting with an extraterrestrial will be with a billion-year-old robot. Wait, what?

“I do not believe that most advanced alien civilizations will be biological. The most sophisticated civilizations will be postbiological, forms of artificial intelligence or alien superintelligence.”

Susan Schneider is an associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy Cognitive Science Program at the University of Connecticut. “Alien Minds” has been presented at NASA and the 2016 IdeaFestival in Kentucky and was published in The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth. It is her response to the question: “How would intelligent aliens think? Would they have conscious experiences? Would it feel a certain way to be an alien?”

“I actually think the first discovery of life on other planets will probably involve microbial life; I am concentrating on intelligent life in my work on this topic though. I only claim that the most advanced civilizations will likely be post biological.”

Schneider’s theory is based on three components or “observations.” In her “short window observation,” she presents the idea that a civilization or species that can conquer long-distance space travel is already very close to moving from biological to artificially-intelligent beings. An example of this “short window” is the relatively brief 120 years it took humans to go from the first radio signals to cell phones.

Some of those species will be much older than us, which is Schneider’s “the greater age of alien civilizations” observation – one accepted by many. And not just a few generations older but billions of years beyond us, making them far more advanced and intelligent. How much more?

Schneider’s last observation is that any species that can travel to Earth will be intelligent enough to develop robots that they can upload their brains to. The robots would probably be silicon-based for speed of ‘thinking’ and durability, making them nearly immortal.

Should we fear these superintelligent robots from other galaxies? Schneider thinks we may not have a chance to. If they’re so much further advanced than we are, why would they bother dealing with is in the first place? Or, as she so bluntly puts it in an interview with UConn Today:

“Would you really cross the universe to interact with an ant?”

That’s a relief … I guess. However, she leans to the side of caution when the discussion turns to sending signals into space to proactively contact any life forms listening.

Like the philosopher that she is, Susan Schneider leaves herself an out: there may not be any other species – superintelligent or lower – at all:

“The universe could be a lonely place, we still do not know the conditions that created life on this planet.”

Will our first ET encounter be with a billion-year-old superintelligent robot? Just to be on the safe side, repeat after me:

“Klaatu barada nikto”

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Trans-Neptunian Resonance May Prove Existence of Planet 9

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Trans-Neptunian Resonance May Prove Existence of Planet 9

Let’s get the obvious out for the way first … Trans-Neptunian Resonance would be a GREAT name for a prog-rock band. Now, what is it and why does a team of astronomers in Michigan believe it can definitively prove the existence of Planet 9?

Part of the name should sound familiar to star-gazers and Planet 9 searchers. Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNO) are the dwarf planets, sub-planets and big rocks that circle the Sun beyond the average orbital distance of Neptune. The odd synchronous alignment the outermost TNOs have was the first indication to astronomers that there might be another planet causing it.

However, one puzzling aspect of the TNOs was that their alignment would depend on them being a billion years old or more, but any objects hurtling around the solar system for that long would have either collided with another planet, plunged into the Sun or spun off into space. Why are they still there?

That was the starting point for the Planet 9 simulations done by University of Michigan Department of Astronomy doctoral student Juliette Becker. In her paper published in The Astronomical Journal, Becker describes the two computer models she and her team used in her attempt to prove the existence of Planet 9. In the first, they created various versions of a Planet 9 to see which would best keep the TNOs in place instead of flying away or into the Sun.

“From that set of simulations, we found out that there are preferred versions of Planet Nine that make the TNO stay stable for longer, so it basically increases the probability that our solar system exists the way it does.”

Interesting but boring. The second set of simulations was based on the idea that the TNOs could be knocked out of their orbit, but instead of leaving the solar system or flaming into the Sun, they simply moved and became locked into another stable orbit with a different aligning “resonance” – a process the team calls “resonance hopping.” Again, they found versions of a Planet 9 that would stabilize the TNO after hopping and “confine it in a different resonance.”

This theory sounds much more pleasant and harmonic that the smashing, bashing and ultimately Earth-colliding images of Planet 9 or Nibiru we hear about from both astronomers and doomsday theorists. So, which one is correct?

“The ultimate goal would be to directly see Planet Nine — to take a telescope, point it at the sky, and see reflected light from the sun bouncing off of Planet Nine. Since we haven’t yet been able to find it, despite many people looking, we’re stuck with these kinds of indirect methods.”

Let’s hope your Ph.D. doesn’t depend on direct definitive proof, Ms. Becker. Otherwise, you’ll be back playing drums for Trans-Neptunian Resonance.

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JAXA discovers 50 km cavern beneath the Moon’s surface - Artificially or natural created?

JAXA discovers 50 km cavern beneath the Moon’s surface - Artificially or natural created?

The Japanese space agency JAXA has announced the discovery of a cave hidden beneath the lunar surface.

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Illustration of an opening/cavern.
Using a radar sounder system that can examine underground structures, the orbiter initially found an opening 50 meters wide and 50 meters deep.

The enormous cavern in the Marius Hills area on the near side of the moon stretching for about 50 kilometers exists beneath the moon’s surface.

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Marius Hills on the near side of the Moon. 
Image credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

It offers a possible protected site for future underground lunar bases and could provide shelter from cosmic radiation and menacing temperatures, while water or ice could be used as fuel, JAXA said.

It is widely believed the moon was rocked by large-scale volcanic activity until about 1 billion years ago whereby the cavern, likely created by volcanic activity, has not collapsed, reports asahi.com

According to The Hollow Moon hypothesis, the Moon is either wholly hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space which is supported by countless pieces of evidence from astronomers and NASA scientists who reveal that some 3-5 kilometers down there appear to be dense layers of metal have led that scientific experts, including NASA investigators believe that the Moon is hollow with a shell about 32 kilometers thick.

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Image credit: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

Could it be possible, given the huge interest in this enormous cavern to use it as a future underground base, that the cave rather than created by volcanic activity, as the official statement reads, actually is an artificially created entrance that leads to an already existing enormous underground lunar base built by an extraterrestrial race in the past?

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Cassini's Final Days Produced a Burst of Fresh Science

Cassini's Final Days Produced a Burst of Fresh Science

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Black Holes: Facts, Theory & Definition

Black Holes: Facts, Theory & Definition

Black holes are some of the strangest and most fascinating objects found in outer space. They are objects of extreme density, with such strong gravitational attraction that even light cannot escape from their grasp if it comes near enough.

Albert Einstein first predicted black holes in 1916 with his general theory of relativity. The term "black hole" was coined in 1967 by American astronomer John Wheeler, and the first one was discovered in 1971. 

There are three types: stellar black holes, supermassive black holes and intermediate black holes.

When a star burns through the last of its fuel, it may collapse, or fall into itself. For smaller stars, up to about three times the sun's mass, the new core will be a neutron star or a white dwarf. But when a larger star collapses, it continues to compress and creates a stellar black hole.

Black holes formed by the collapse of individual stars are (relatively) small, but incredibly dense. Such an object packs three times or more the mass of the sun into a city-size range. This leads to a crazy amount of gravitational force pulling on objects around it. Black holes consume the dust and gas from the galaxy around them, growing in size.

According the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "the Milky Way contains a few hundred million" stellar black holes.

Small black holes populate the universe, but their cousins, supermassive black holes, dominate. Supermassive black holes are millions or even billions of times as massive as the sun, but have a radius similar to that of Earth's closest star. Such black holes are thought to lie at the center of pretty much every galaxy, including the Milky Way.

Scientists aren't certain how such large black holes spawn. Once they've formed, they gather mass from the dust and gas around them, material that is plentiful in the center of galaxies, allowing them to grow to enormous sizes

Illustration of a young black hole, such as the two distant dust-free quasars spotted recently by the Spitzer Space Telescope. More photos of black holes of the universe
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Supermassive black holes may be the result of hundreds or thousands of tiny black holes that merge together. Large gas clouds could also be responsible, collapsing together and rapidly accreting mass. A third option is the collapse of a stellar cluster, a group of stars all falling together.

Scientists once thought black holes came in only small and large sizes, but recent research has revealed the possibility for the existence of mid-size, or intermediate, black holes (IMBHs). Such bodies could form when stars in a cluster collide in a chain reaction. Several of these forming in the same region could eventually fall together in the center of a galaxy and create a supermassive black hole.

In 2014, astronomers found what appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole in the arm of a spiral galaxy.

"Astronomers have been looking very hard for these medium-sized black holes," co-author Tim Roberts, of the University of Durham in the United Kingdom, said in a statement.

"There have been hints that they exist, but IMBH's have been acting like a long-lost relative that isn't interested in being found."

Black holes are incredibly massive, but cover only a small region. Because of the relationship between mass and gravity, this means they have an extremely powerful gravitational force. Virtually nothing can escape from them — under classical physics, even light is trapped by a black hole.

Such a strong pull creates an observational problem when it comes to black holes — scientists can't "see" them the way they can see stars and other objects in space. Instead, scientists must rely on the radiation that is emitted as dust and gas are drawn into the dense creatures. Supermassive black holes, lying in the center of a galaxy, may find themselves shrouded by the dust and gas thick around them, which can block the tell-tale emissions.

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Black holes are strange regions where gravity is strong enough to bend light, warp space and distort time. [See how black holes work in this SPACE.com infographic.
Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com contributor

Sometimes as matter is drawn toward a black hole, it ricochets off the event horizon and is hurled outward, rather than being tugged into the maw. Bright jets of material traveling at near-relativistic speeds are created. Although the black hole itself remains unseen, these powerful jets can be viewed from great distances.

Black holes have three "layers" — the outer and inner event horizon and the singularity.

The event horizon of a black hole is the boundary around the mouth of the black hole where light loses its ability to escape. Once a particle crosses the event horizon, it cannot leave. Gravity is constant across the event horizon.

The inner region of a black hole, where its mass lies, is known as its singularity, the single point in space-time where the mass of the black hole is concentrated.

Under the classical mechanics of physics, nothing can escape from a black hole. However, things shift slightly when quantum mechanics are added to the equation. Under quantum mechanics, for every particle, there is an antiparticle, a particle with the same mass and opposite electric charge. When they meet, particle-antiparticle pairs can annihilate one another.

If a particle-antiparticle pair is created just beyond the reach of the event horizon of a black hole, it is possible to have one drawn into the black hole itself while the other is ejected. The result is that the event horizon of the black hole has been reduced and black holes can decay, a process that is rejected under classical mechanics.

Scientists are still working to understand the equations by which black holes function.

In 2015, astronomers using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) made the first detection of gravitational waves. Since then, the instrument has observed several other incidents. The gravitational waves spotted by LIGO came from merging stellar black holes.

"We have further confirmation of the existence of stellar-mass black holes that are larger than 20 solar masses — these are objects we didn't know existed before LIGO detected them," MIT's David Shoemaker said in a statement. Shoemaker is the spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), a body of more than 1,000 international scientists who perform LIGO research together with the European-based Virgo Collaboration.

LIGO's observations also provide insights about the direction a black hole spins. As a pair of black holes spirals around one another, they can spin in the same direction or they can be completely different.

"This is the first time that we have evidence that the black holes may not be aligned, giving us just a tiny hint that binary black holes may form in dense stellar clusters," said LIGO researcher Bangalore Sathyaprakash of Penn State and Cardiff University.

There are two theories on how binary black holes form. The first suggests that they formed at about the same time, from two stars that were born together and died explosively at about the same time. The companion stars would have had the same spin orientation, so the black holes they left behind would, as well.

Under the second model, black holes in a stellar cluster sink to the center of the cluster and pair up. These companions would have random spin orientations compared to one another. LIGO's observations of companion black holes with different spin orientations provide stronger evidence for this formation theory.

"We're starting to gather real statistics on binary black hole systems," said LIGO scientist Keita Kawabe of Caltech, who is based at the LIGO Hanford Observatory. "That's interesting because some models of black hole binary formation are somewhat favored over the others even now and, in the future, we can further narrow this down."

  • If you fell into a black hole, theory has long suggested that gravity would stretch you out like spaghetti, though your death would come before you reached singularity. But a 2012 study in Nature suggests that quantum effects would cause the event horizon to act much like a wall of fire, instantly burning anyone to death.
  • Black holes do not "suck." Suction is caused by pulling something into a vacuum, which the massive black hole definitely is not. Instead, objects fall into them.
  • The first object considered to be a black hole is Cygnus X-1. Rockets carrying Geiger counters discovered eight new X-ray sources. In 1971, scientists detected radio emissions coming from Cygnus X-1, and a massive hidden companion was found and identified as a black hole.
  • Cygnus X-1 was the subject of a 1974 friendly wager between Stephen Hawking and a fellow physicist Kip Thorne, with Hawking betting that the source was not a black hole. In 1990, he conceded defeat. [VIDEO: Final Nail in Stephen Hawking's Cygnus X-1 Bet?]
  • Miniature black holes may have formed immediately after the Big Bang. Rapidly expanding space may have squeezed some regions into tiny, dense black holes less massive than the sun.
  • If a star passes too close to a black hole, it can be torn apart.
  • Astronomers estimate there are anywhere from 10 million to a billion stellar black holes, with masses roughly three times that of the sun, in the Milky Way.
  • The interesting relationship between string theory and black holes gives rise to more types of massive giants than found under conventional classical mechanics.
  • Black holes remain terrific fodder for science fiction books and movies. Check out the science behind the movie "Interstellar," which relied heavily on theoretical physicist Kip Thorne to bring real science to the Hollywood feature. In fact, work with the special effects of the blockbuster lead to an improvement in the scientific understanding of how distant stars might appear when seen near a fast-spinning black hole.

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Newfound Bus-Size Asteroid Will Zoom Safely By Earth Today (19/10)

Newfound Bus-Size Asteroid Will Zoom Safely By Earth Today (19/10)

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The RB-47 radar visual multiple witnesses cases, July 17, 1957:

The RB-47 radar visual multiple witnesses cases, July 17, 1957:

An Air Force Boeing Stratojet reconnaissance jet RB-47, equipped with electronic countermeasures gear and manned by six officers, was followed by an unidentified object for a distance of well over 700 miles, and for a time period of more than one hour, as it flew from Mississippi, through Louisiana and Texas and into Oklahoma. The object was, at various times, seen visually by the cockpit crew as an intensely luminous light, followed by ground-radar and detected on ECM monitoring gear aboard the RB-47. Of special interest in this case are several instances of simultaneous appearances and disappearances on all three of those physically distinct observation channels, and rapidity of maneuvers beyond aircraft possibilities.

RB-47

In this file:

Click! The case summary.
Click! Case study by James E. McDonald.
Click! Case story by James E. McDonald for the UFO committee of the AIAA.
Click! About the RB-47.
Click! References.

Case summary:

On board an RB-47H aircraft equipped with sophisticated electronic countermeasures equipment, including three electronic intelligence (ELINT) stations over the Gulf of Mexico.

The crew consisted of:

Major Lewis D. Chase, pilot, Spokane, WA
Capt. James H. McCoid, copilot, Offutt AFB
Capt. Thomas H. Hanley, navigator, Vandenberg AFB
John J. Provenzano, No. 1 monitor, Wichita, KS
Capt. Frank B. McClure, No. 2 monitor, Offutt AFB
Capt. Walter A. Tuchschner, No. 3 monitor, Topeka, KS

These six men were on a training and test exercise in an RB-47H electronic countermeasures reconnaissance aircraft. The RB-47, while originally developed as a bomber, was also used extensively as a reconnaissance aircraft. One was shot down by the Soviet Union while on such a mission in 1960.

This particular mission began at Forbes AFB, Topeka, Kansas as an exercise including gunnery exercises over the Texas-Gulf area, navigation exercises over the open Gulf, and Electronic Countermeasures exercises on the return trip across the south-central U.S. The men participating were soon to depart for Germany and duty there. It should be noted that the ECM equipment was not radar. It did not emit a signal and then pick up reflected echoes off of an object. Rather, it detected electromagnetic signals that were actually emitted by an object itself. The purpose of this was to detect and locate enemy radar installations. On this aircraft, the #2 monitor consisted of a direction finder with antenna on the lower rear of the aircraft, and the #1 monitor consisted of a direction finder with antennas on each wingtip of the aircraft. The #3 monitor was not involved in the events of July 17, because its range did not include the frequencies involved.

The first contact with the unknown was before 4:00 AM CST. The first two parts of the mission had been completed, and the aircraft was just leaving the airspace over the Gulf of Mexico near Gulfport, Mississippi, when Frank McClure, on the #2 ECM monitor, detected an airborne signal to the right rear of the aircraft, out over the Gulf of Mexico. The signal was of a type usually confined to ground-based radar installations. It was at 2800 megacycles, a common frequency for S-band search radar. McClure at first thought that his scope must be 180° out of alignment and that he must be picking up a ground-based radar station in Louisiana, which would actually be to the left front of the aircraft. As he watched, the signal moved up the scope, as it would if the scope was 180° out of alignment. However, he was amazed to see that, after it had moved up the scope on the right-hand side of the aircraft, it then crossed the path of the RB-47 and proceeded to move down the scope on the left-hand side. In other words, whatever was emitting the signal flew a ring around the RB-47, which was flying at approximately 500 miles per hour. Even if the scope was 180° out of alignment, the signal source still moved completely around the aircraft, which no ground radar could do. McClure said and did nothing at this time, not mentioning the signal to the other crewmembers. The signal faded as they flew north.

The RB-47 made a scheduled turn to the west over Jackson, Mississippi and the crew was preparing to begin a series of simulated ECM operations against Air Force ground radar units, when suddenly the pilot, Lewis Chase, saw a light coming in from the left, at approximately the same altitude as the RB-47. At first he thought it was another plane, but it was only a single white light, closing fast. He gave the command to prepare for evasive maneuvers, but the light flashed across from left to right so fast that no such action could have been taken. It then blinked out at a point to the right front of the aircraft. Both Chase and Copilot James McCoid observed this. At this point, approximately 4:10 AM CST, they were approximately over Winnsboro, Louisiana.

Chase told the other crewmembers what he had seen, and McClure now told him about his earlier signal reading. At 4:30 AM, McClure set his scope to detect signals near 3000 mcs again, and he detected a strong signal at the same location in relation to the RB-47 that Chase had last seen the light. He and Provenzano checked the alignment of the #2 monitor by tuning in on known ground radar installations and found it to be in perfect working order. At 4:30 AM, Provenzano tuned his own monitor, #1, to 3000 mcs, and found that his equipment detected a signal at the same location. What's more, he and McClure found that the signal was staying in the same position, keeping pace with the RB-47, which was still flying at 500 miles per hour. This meant that it was not a signal from a ground-based radar.

By this time they had reached the Duncanville, Texas area. At 4:39, Chase spotted a huge light to the right front of the RB-47 an about 5,000 feet below the aircraft's 34,500 feet altitude. The weather was perfectly clear. At 4:40, McClure reported two signals, at 40° and 70°. Chase and McCoid reported seeing red lights at those locations. Chase contacted radar Station Utah at Duncanville, Texas and requested permission to abandon his flight plan and pursue the lights, which he received. At 4:48 AM, radar station Utah requested the position of the signals that McClure was receiving, and they immediately confirmed that their radar had detected the objects at the same location.

As the RB-47 attempted to pursue, the object appeared to stop suddenly. Chase could see that they were gaining on it, and they over shot it. At 4:52 it blinked out, and simultaneously vanished from McClure's scope and the ground radar! Chase put the aircraft into a port turn, and the object suddenly blinked on again, simultaneously reappearing on McClure's scope and the ground radar at 4:52! They began to close to within 5 miles of the object, when it suddenly dropped to 15,000 feet and then blinked out again, once again vanishing from the scopes and ground radar. At 4:55, Chase radioed Utah radar station that they had to break of pursuit and continue with their scheduled flight plan due to low fuel. At 4:57 McClure picked up the signal again, and at 4:58 Chase made visual contact again. As they headed into Oklahoma, McClure continued to receive a signal, now from the rear of the aircraft, until it finally faded as they neared Oklahoma City. The Director of Intelligence, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, stated in his report that he had: "...no doubt the electronic D/F's coincided exactly with visual observations by aircraft commander numerous times, thus indicating positively the object being the signal source."

What can be detected on ECM direction finding devices, can be seen visually, and can be detected on ordinary ground-based radar all at the same time? What can be detected by all the sensors and can also fly rings around a jet travelling at 500 miles per hour?

Project Bluebook said that the sightings in Dallas - Fort Worth area were an ordinary jet airliner. They actually simply confused or voluntarily confused the case with a totally different incident implying a quasi-collision between civilian flights 966 and 655 of American Airlines, which flew above Texas at more than 1000 kilometers away from the RB-47. They couldn't explain the abrupt, simultaneous disappearance and reappearance of the object from radar screens, ECM scopes, and visual detection. They also couldn't explain the events that occurred over Mississippi and Louisiana. They couldn't explain how the Utah radar station could not have told an airliner from an unknown.

Above: Blue Book file card for the case.

The Condon Committee toyed with several explanations, but found none to be satisfactory, finally classifying this case as unknown. In fact, Condon's radar case specialist Gordon L. Thayer said that the Blue Book explanation that the case was due to airliners was "literally ridiculous." The self proclaimed UFO debunker Philipp Klass, not discouraged by his previous ridicule explanation of UFOs as plasmoids which was pointed at as typical pseudoscience wishful thinking by Dr. McDonald, considered that the electronic tracks were due to anomalous radar wave propagation and that the visual sighting was first a meteor, then the star Vega and finally the other planes from American Airlines cited by Blue Book; the long demonstrated ridicule of this explanation apparently did not came up to his mind. Ufologist Brad Sparks, a specialist of aeronautics, responded point by point in a paper in Jerome Clark's UFO Encyclopedia and demonstrated how Klass' interpretation was based on the erroneous interpretation of the data and overall nonsensical.

Map by the crew:

This is the flightpath of the RB-47 (dotted line) and of the UFO (plain line), drawn on their formal report by the captain of the crew.

PROFESSOR JAMES MCDONALD:

The following study is excerpted from "Twenty-Two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations" American Association for the Advancement of Science, 134th Meeting, General Symposium, Unidentified Flying Objects, by James E. McDonald, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, December 27, 1969.

Case 1. USAF RB-47, Gulf Coast area, September 19-20, 1957.

Brief summary:

An Air Force RB-47, equipped with ECM (Electronic Countermeasures) gear, manned by six officers, was followed over a total distance in excess of 600 miles and for a time period of more than an hour, as it flew from near Gulfport, Miss., through Louisiana and Texas, and into southern Oklahoma. The unidentified object was, at various times, seen visually by the cockpit crew (as an intense white or red light), followed by ground-radar, and detected on ECM monitoring gear aboard the RB-47. Simultaneous appearances and disappearances on all three of those physically distinct "channels" mark this UFO case as especially intriguing from a scientific viewpoint. The incident is described as Case 5 in the Condon Report and is conceded to be unexplained. The full details, however, are not presented in that Report.

1. Summary of the Case:

The case is long and involved and filled with well-attested phenomena that defy easy explanation in terms of present-day science and technology. The RB-47 was flying out of Forbes AFB, Topeka, on a composite mission including gunnery exercises over the Texas-Gulf area, navigation exercises over the open Gulf, and ECM exercises in the return trip across the south-central U.S. This was an RB-47 carrying a six-man crew, of whom three were electronic warfare officers manning ECM (Electronic counter-measures) gear in the aft portion of the aircraft. One of the extremely interesting aspects of this case is that electromagnetic signals of distinctly radar-like character appeared definitely to be emitted by the UFO, yet it exhibited performance characteristics that seem to rule out categorically its having been any conventional or secret aircraft.

I have discussed the incident with all six officers of the crew:

  • Lewis D. Chase, pilot, Spokane, Wash.
  • James H. McCoid, copilot, Offutt AFB.
  • Thomas H. Hanley, navigator, Vandenberg AFB.
  • John J. Provenzano, No. 1 monitor, Wichita.
  • Frank B. McClure, No. 2 monitor, Offutt AFB.
  • Walter A. Tuchscherer, No. 3 monitor, Topeka.

Chase was a Major at the time; I failed to ask for information on 1957 ranks of the others. McClure and Hanley are currently Majors, so might have been Captains or Lieutenants in 1957. All were experienced men at the time. Condon Project investigators only talked with Chase, McCoid, and McClure, I ascertained. In my checking it proved necessary to telephone several of them more than once to pin down key points; nevertheless the total case is so complex that I would assume that there are still salient points not clarified either by the Colorado investigators or by myself. Unfortunately, there appears to be no way, at present to locate the personnel involved in ground- radar observations that are a very important part of the whole case. I shall discuss that point below.

This flight occurred in September, 1957, just prior to the crew's reassignment to a European base. On questioning by Colorado investigators, flight logs were consulted, and based on the recollection that this flight was within a short time of departure from Forces to Germany, (plus the requirement that the date match a flight of the known type and geography) the 9/19/57 date seems to have emerged. The uncertainty as to whether it was early on the 19th or early on the 20th, cited above is a point of confusion I had not noted until preparing the present notes. Hence I am unable to add any clarification, at the moment; in this matter of the date confusion found in Thayer's discussion of the case (1, pp. 136-138). I shall try to check that in the near future. For the present, it does not vitiate case-discussion in any significant way.

The incident is most inadequately described in the Condon Report. The reader is left with the general notion that the important parts occurred near Ft. Worth, an impression strengthened by the fact that both Crow and Thayer discuss meteorological data only for that area. One is also left with no clear impression of the duration, which was actually over an hour. The incident involved an unknown airborne object that stayed with the RB-47 for over 600 miles. In case after case in the Condon Report, close checking reveals that quite significant features of the cases have been glossed over, or omitted, or in some instances seriously misrepresented. I submit that to fail to inform the reader that this particular case spans a total distance-range of some 600 miles and lasted well over an hour is an omission difficult to justify.

From my nine separate interviews with the six crew members, I assembled a picture of the events that makes it even more puzzling than it seems on reading the Condon Report - and even the latter account is puzzling enough.

Just as the aircraft crossed the Mississippi coast near Gulfport, McClure, manning the #2 monitor, detected a signal near their 5 o'clock position (aft of the starboard beam). It looked to him like a legitimate ground-radar signal, but corresponded to a position out in the Gulf. This is the actual beginning of the complete incident; but before proceeding with details it is necessary to make quite clear what kind of equipment we shall be talking about as we follow McClure's successive observations.

Under conditions of war, bombing aircraft entering hostile territory can be assisted in their penetrations if any of a variety of electronic countermeasures (ECM techniques as they are collectively termed) are brought into action against ground-based enemy radar units. The initial step in all ECM operations is, necessarily, that of detecting the enemy radar and quantitatively identifying a number of relevant features of the radar system (carrier frequency, pulse repetition frequency, scan rate, pulse width) and, above all, its bearing relative to the aircraft heading. The latter task is particularly ample in principle, calling only for direction-finding antennas which pick up the enemy signal and display on a monitor scope inside the reconnaissance aircraft a blip or lobe that paints in the relative bearing from which the signal is coming.

The ECM gear used in RB-47's in 1957 is not now classified; the #2 monitor that McClure was on, he and the others pointed out, involved an ALA-6 direction-finder with back-to-back antennas in a housing on the undersurface of the RB-47 near the rear, spun at either 150 or 300 rpm as it scanned in azimuth. Inside the aircraft, its signals were processed in an APR-9 radar receiver and an ALA-5 pulse analyzer. All later references to the #2 monitor imply that system. The #1 monitor employed an APD-4 direction finding system, with a pair of antennas permanently mounted on either wing tip. Provenzano was on the #1 monitor. Tuchscherer was on the #3 monitor, whose specifications I did not ascertain because I could find no indication that it was involved in the observations.

Returning now to the initial features of the UFO episode, McClure at first thought he had 180-degree ambiguity in his scope, i.e., that the signal whose lobe painted at his 5 o'clock position was actually coming in from the 11 o'clock position perhaps from some ground radar in Louisiana. This suspicion, he told me, was temporarily strengthened as he became aware that the lobe was moving upscope. (It is important here and in features of the case cited below to understand how a fixed ground-radar paints on the ECM monitor scope as the reconnaissance aircraft flies toward its general direction: Suppose the ground radar is, at some instant, located at the 1 o'clock position relative to the moving aircraft, i.e., slightly off the starboard bow. As the aircraft flies along, the relative bearing steadily changes, so that the fixed ground unit is "seen" successively at the 2 o'clock, the 3 o'clock, and the 4 o'clock positions, etc. The lobe paints on the monitor scope at these successive relative azimuths, the 12 o'clock position being at the top of the scope, 3 o'clock at the right, etc. Thus any legitimate signal from a fixed ground radar must move downscope, excluding the special cases in which the radar is dead ahead or dead astern. Note carefully that we deal here only with direction finding gear. Range is unknown; we are not here speaking of an airborne radar set, just a radar-frequency direction-finder. In practice, range is obtained by triangulation computations based on successive fixes and known aircraft speed.)

As the lobe continued moving upscope, McClure said the strength of the incoming signal and its pulse characteristics all tended to confirm that this was some ground unit being painted with 180-degree ambiguity for some unknown electronic reason. It was at 2800 megacycles, a common frequency for S-band search radars.

However, after the lobe swung dead ahead, his earlier hypothesis had to be abandoned for it continued swinging over to the 11 o'clock position and continued downscope on the port side. Clearly, no 180-degree ambiguity was capable of accounting for this. Curiously, however, this was so anomalous that McClure did not take it very seriously and did not at that juncture mention it to the cockpit crew nor to his colleagues on the other two monitors. This upscope-downscope "orbit" of the unknown was seen only on the ALA-6, as far as I could establish. Had nothing else occurred, this first and very significant portion of the whole episode would almost certainly have been for gotten by McClure.

The signal faded as the RB-47 headed northward to the scheduled turning point over Jackson, Miss. The mission called for simulated detection and ECM operations against Air Force ground radar units all along this part of the flight plan, but other developments intervened. Shortly after making their turn westward over Jackson, Miss., Chase noted what he thought at first were the landing lights of some other jet coming in from near his 11 o'clock position, at roughly the RB-47's altitude. But no running lights were discernible and it was a single very bright white light, closing fast. He had just alerted the rest of the crew to be ready for sudden evasive maneuvers, when he and McCoid saw the light almost instantaneously change directions and rush across from left to right at an angular velocity that Chase told me he'd never seen matched in his flight experience. The light went from their 11 o'clock to the 2 o'clock position with great rapidity, and then blinked out.

Immediately after that, Chase and McCoid began talking about it on the interphone and McClure, recalling the unusual 2800 megacycle signal that he had seen over Gulfport now mentioned that peculiar incident for the first time to Chase and McCoid. It occurred to him at that point to set his #2 monitor to scan at 2800 mcs. On the first scan, McClure told me, he got a strong 2800 mcs signal from their 2 o'clock position, the bearing on which the luminous unknown object had blinked out moments earlier.

Provenzano told me that right after that they had checked out the #2 monitor on valid ground radar stations to be sure it was not malfunctioning and it appeared to be in perfect order. He then checked on his #1 monitor and also got a signal from the same bearing. There remained, of course, the possibility that just by chance, this signal was from a real radar down on the ground and off in that direction. But as the minutes went by, and the aircraft continued westward at about 500 kts. The relative bearing of the 2800 mcs source did not move downscope on the #2 monitor, but kept up with them.

This quickly led to a situation in which the entire 6-man crew focussed all attention on the matter; the incident is still vivid in the minds of all the men, though their recollection for various details varies with the particular activities they were engaged in. Chase varied speed, to see if the relative bearing would change but nothing altered. After over a hundred miles of this, with the 2800 mcs source keeping pace with the aircraft, they were getting into the radar-coverage area of the Carswell AFB GCI (Ground Controlled Intercept) unit and Chase radioed that unit to ask if they showed any other air traffic near the RB-47. Carswell GCI immediately came back with the information that there was apparently another aircraft about 10 miles from them at their 2 o'clock position. (The RB-47 was unambiguously identifiable by its IFF signal; the "other aircraft" was seen by "skin paint" Only, i.e., by direct radar reflection rather than via an IFF transponder, Col. Chase explained.)

This information, each of the men emphasized to me in one way or another, made them a bit uneasy for the first time. I asked McClure a question that the Colorado investigators either failed to ask or did not summarize in their Report. Was the signal in all respects comparable to that of a typical ground radar? McClure told me that this was what baffled him the most, then and now. All the radar signature characteristics, as read out on his ALA-5 pulse analyzer, were completely normal - it had a pulse repetition frequency and pulse width like a CPS-6B and even simulated a scan rate: But its intensity, McClure pointed out, was so strong that "it would have to had an antenna bigger than a bomber to put out that much signal." And now, the implications of the events over Gulfport took on new meaning. The upscope-downscope sweep of his #2 monitor lobe implied that this source, presuming it to be the same one now also being seen on ground radar at Carswell GCI, had flown a circle around the RB-47 at 30-35,000 ft altitude while the aircraft was doing about 500 kts.

Shortly after Carswell GCI began following the two targets, RB-47 and unknown, still another significant action unfolded. McClure suddenly noted the lobe on the #2 monitor was beginning to go upscope, and almost simultaneously, Chase told me, GCI called out that the second airborne target was starting to move forward. Keep in mind that no visual target was observable here; after blinking out at the 12 o'clock position, following its lightning-like traverse across the nose of the aircraft, no light had been visible. The unknown now proceeded to move steadily around to the 12 o'clock position, followed all the while on the #2 monitor and on the GCI scope down at Carswell near Ft. Worth.

As soon as the unknown reached the 12 o'clock position, Chase and McCoid suddenly saw a bright red glow "bigger than a house", Chase said, and lying dead ahead, precisely the bearing shown on the passive radar direction-finder that McClure was on and precisely the bearing now indicated on the GCI scope. Three independent sensing systems were at this juncture giving seemingly consistent-indications: two pairs of human eyes, a ground radar, and a direction-finding radar receiver in the aircraft.

One of the important points not settled by the Colorado investigations concerned the question of whether the unknown was ever painted on any radar set on the RB-47 itself. Some of the men thought the navigator had seen it on his set, others were unsure. I eventually located Maj. Hanley at Vandenberg and he informed me that all through the incident, which he remembered very well, he tried, unsuccessfully to pick up the unknown on his navigational radar (K-system). I shall not recount all of the details of his efforts and his comments, but only mention the end result of my two telephone interviews with him. The important question was what sort of effective range that set had. Hanley gave the pertinent information that it could just pick up a large tanker of the KC-97 type at about 4 miles range, when used in the "altitude-hold" mode, with antenna tipped up to maximum elevation. But both at the start of its involvement and during the object's swing into the 12 o'clock position, GCI showed it remaining close to 10 miles in range from the RB-47. Thus Hanley's inability to detect it on his K-system navigational radar in altitude hold only implies that whatever was out there had a radar cross-section that was less than about 16 times that of a KC-97 (roughly twice 4 miles, inverse 4th-power law), The unknown gave a GCI return that suggested a cross-section comparable to an ordinary aircraft, Chase told me, which is consistent with Hanley's non-detection of the object. The Condon Report gives the impression the navigator did detect it, but this is not correct.

I have in my files many pages of typed notes on my interviews, and cannot fill in all of the intriguing details here. Suffice it to say that Chase then went to maximum allowable power, hoping to close with the unknown, but it just stayed ahead at about 10 miles as GCI kept telling them; it stayed as a bright red light dead ahead, and it kept painting as a bright lobe on the top of McClure's ALA-6 scope. By this time they were well into Texas still at about 35,000 ft and doing upwards of 500 knots, when Chase saw it begin to veer to the right and head between Dallas and Ft. Worth. Getting FAA clearance to alter his own flight plan and to make sure other jet traffic was out of his way, he followed its turn, and then realized he was beginning to close on it for the first time. Almost immediately GCI told him the unknown had stopped moving on the ground-radarscope. Chase and McCoid watched as they came almost up to it. Chase's recollections on this segment of the events were distinctly clearer than McCoid's. McCoid was, of course, sitting aft of Chase and had the poorer view; also he said he was doing fuel-reserve calculations in view of the excess fuel-use in their efforts to shake the unknown, and had to look up from the lighted cockpit to try to look out intermittently, while Chase in the forward seat was able to keep it in sight more nearly continuously. Chase told me that he'd estimate that it was just ahead of the RB-47 and definitely below them when it instantaneously blinked out, At that same moment McClure announced on the interphone that he'd lost the 2800 mcs signal, and GCI said it had disappeared from their scope. Such simultaneous loss of signal on what we can term three separate channels is most provocative, most puzzling.

Putting the aircraft into a left turn (which Chase noted consumes about 15-20 miles at top speed), they kept looking back to try to see the light again. And, about halfway through the turn (by then the aircraft had reached the vicinity of Mineral Wells, Texas, Chase said), the men in the cockpit suddenly saw the bright red light flash on again, back along their previous flight path but distinctly lower, and simultaneously GCI got a target again and McClure started picking up a 2800 mcs signal at that bearing: (As I heard one after another of these men describe all this, I kept trying to imagine how it was possible that Condon could listen, at the October, 1967, plasma conference at the UFO Project, as Col. Chase recounted all this and shrug his shoulders and walk out.)

Securing permission from Carswell GCI to undertake the decidedly non-standard maneuver of diving on the unknown, Chase put the RB-47 nose down and had reached about 20,000 ft, he recalls, when all of a sudden the light blinked out, GCI lost it on their scope, and McClure reported loss of signal on the #2 monitor: Three-channel consistency once more.

Low on fuel, Chase climbed back up to 25,000 and headed north for Oklahoma. He barely had it on homeward course when McClure got a blip dead astern and Carswell radioed that they had a target once more trailing the RB- 47 at about 10 miles. Rear visibility from the top blisters of the RB-4 now precluded easy visual check, particularly if the unknown was then at lower altitude (Chase estimated that it might have been near 15,000 ft when he lost it in the dive). It followed them to southern Oklahoma and then disappeared.

2. Discussion:

This incident is an especially good example of a UFO case in which observer credibility and reliability do not come into serious question, a case in which more than one (here three) channel of information figures in the over-all observations, and a case in which the reported phenomena appear to defy explanation in terms of either natural or technological phenomena.

In the Condon Report, the important initial incident in which the unknown 2800 MC source appeared to orbit the RB-47 near Gulfport is omitted. In the Condon Report, the reader is given no hint that the object was with the aircraft for over 600 miles and for over an hour. No clear sequence of these events is spelled out, nor is the reader made aware of all of the "three-channel" simultaneous appearances or disappearances that were so emphatically stressed to me by both Chase and McClure in my interviews with them. But even despite those degrees of incompleteness, any reader of the account of this case in the Condon Report must wonder that an incident of this sort could be left as unexplained and yet ultimately treated, along with the other unexplained cases in that Report, as calling for no further scientific attention.

Actually, various hypotheses (radar anomalies, mirage effects) are weighed in one part of the Condon Report where this case is discussed separately (pp. 136-138). But the suggestion made there that perhaps an inversion near 2 km altitude was responsible for the returns at the Carswell GCI unit is wholly untenable. In an Appendix, a very lengthy but non-relevant discussion of ground return from anomalous propagation appears; in fact, it is so unrelated to the actual circumstances of this case as to warrant no comment here. Chase's account emphasized that the GCI radar(s) had his aircraft and the unknown object on-scope for a total flight-distance of the order of several hundred miles, including a near overflight of the ground radar. With such wide variations in angles of incidence of the ground-radar beam on any inversion or duct, however intense, the possibility of anomalous propagation effects yielding a consistent pattern of spurious echo matching the reported movements and the appearances and disappearances of the target is infinitesimal. And the more so in view of the simultaneous appearances and disappearances on the ECM gear and via visible emissions from the unknown. To suggest, as is tentatively done on p. 138 that the "red glow" might have been a "mirage of Oklahoma City", when the pilot's description of the luminous source involves a wide range of viewing angles, including two instances when he was viewing it at quite large depression angles, is wholly unreasonable. Unfortunately, that kind of casual ad hoc hypothesizing with almost no attention to relevant physical considerations runs all through the case-discussions in the treatment of radar and optical cases in the Condon Report, frequently (though not in this instance) being made the basis of "explanations" that are merely absurd. On p. 265 of the Report, the question of whether this incident might be explained in terms of any "plasma effect" is considered but rejected. In the end, this case is conceded to be unexplained.

No evidence that a report on this event reached Project Bluebook was found by the Colorado investigators. That may seem hard to believe for those who are under the impression that the Air Force has been diligently and exhaustively investigating UFO reports over the past 22 years. But to those who have examined more closely the actual levels of investigation, lack of a report on this incident is not so surprising. Other comparable instances could he cited, and still more where the military aircrews elected to spare themselves the bother of interrogation, by not even reporting events about as puzzling as those found in this RB-47 incident.

But what is of greatest present interest is the point that here we have a well-reported, multi-channel, multiple-witness UFO report, coming in fact from within the Air Force itself, investigated by the Condon Report team, conceded to be unexplained, and yet it is, in final analysis, ignored by Dr. Condon. In no section of the Report specifically written by the principal investigator does he even allude to this intriguing case. My question is how such events can be written off as demanding no further scientific study. To me, such cases seem to cry out for the most intensive scientific study - and the more so because they are actually so much more numerous than the scientific community yet realizes. There is a scientific mystery here that is being ignored and shoved under the rug; the strongest and most unjustified shove has come from the Condon Report. "unjustified" because that Report itself contains so many scientifically puzzling unexplained cases (approximately 30 out of 90 cases considered) that it is extremely difficult to understand how its principal investigator could have construed the contents of the Report as supporting a view that UFO studies should be terminated.

About the RB-47:

The B-47 "Stratojet" was the first all-jet operational bomber in the Air Force and was the backbone of the Strategic Air Command bomber fleet in the 1950s. It was a medium range bomber that could be refueled in flight manufactured by Boeing Aircraft Company (primary), Douglas and Lockheed. It had 6 General Electric J-47-GE-25 turbojet engines, a maximum speed of 600 miles per hour, and a range of 4000 miles.

The RB-47E was the photomapping, weather and electronic reconnaissance version of the B-47 and was also one of its best versions; it first flew July 1953. It was designed to check weather along projected bombing routes, photograph enemy installations and monitor defensive radar systems during the period 1954 to 1964. It was used in missions above North Korea, China, and also over the Soviet Union for the most sensitive reconnaissance missions of the Cold War.

RB-47

References:

  • Project Blue Book case file #10073, National Archives and Record Administration (NARA, www.nara.gov), Washington D.C., files of 1957.
  • ""Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects" by James McDonald Submitted to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics on July 29, 1968.
  • "AIAA Committee Looks at UFO Problem", AIAA UFO Subcommittee, Astronautics and Aeronautics, p. 12, December 1968.
  • "Optical and radar analyses of field cases" by Gordon D. Thayer, 1969, in "Final report of the scientific study of unidentified flying objects" aka "The Condon Report", by Edward U. Condon and E.P. Dutton et al., New York, Library of Congress Catalog No. 73-77914, 1969.
  • "Twenty-Two Years of Inadequate UFO Investigations", by James E. McDonald, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 134th Meeting, General Symposium, Unidentified Flying Objects, by James E. McDonald, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, December 27, 1969, reprinted in "UFOs, a scientific debate", edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1972.
  • "Meteorological Factors in Unidentified Radar Returns", paper Presented at the 14th Radar Meteorology Conference American Meteorological Society November 17-20, James E. McDonald The University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona, 1970.
  • "The RB-47 UFO Case - A New Explanation", self-published article by Philipp Klass, 1971, reprinted in his book "UFOs Explained", Random House, New York, ISBN 0-394-72106-3, 1974.
  • "UFO Encounter I Sample Case", case selected by the UFO Subcommittee of the AIAA Astronautics and Aeronautics, July, 1971, pp. 66-70. Dr. James E. McDonald.
  • "UFOs: A Scientific Debate", edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page, "a collection of evidence and opinion from both sides", Norton publisher, ISBN 0-39300-739-1, 1974
  • "RB-47 radar/visual sighting", article by Gordon D. Thayer, in the book "The encyclopedia of UFOs", edited by Ronald D. Story, Doubleday and co, New York, 1980.
  • "UFOs: An insider's view of the official quest for evidence", by Roy Craig, University of North Texas Press, Denton, Texas, ISBN 0-929398-94-7, 1995.
  • "The UFO Book", by Jerome Clark, pp. 505-509, Visible Ink, New York, ISBN 1-57859-029-9, 1998.
  • "L'affaire du RB-47", by Dominique Weinstein, in "OVNI USA", hors série VSD magazine, pp 32-33, July 2001.
  • "Les OVNIS et la défense - A quoi doit-on se préparer", book by association Cometa, pp. 40-44, Editions du Rocher, ISBN 2-268-04592-7, France, 1999.

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A Giant Cave on the Moon Could Host Lunar Settlers

A Giant Cave on the Moon Could Host Lunar Settlers

A pit on the moon's surface. (Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University)

A pit on the moon’s surface. 

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Turn-of-the-century science fiction posited the existence of aliens living deep beneath the surface of the moon.

Someday, those subterranean creatures could very well be us.

New data from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has uncovered a 30-mile-long tunnel under the moon’s surface, likely the relic of long-ago lava flows. Though the existence of lava tubes isn’t something new, this latest find appears to be both mostly intact and sufficiently large enough to potentially serve as a habitat for future lunar settlers.

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Lava tubes, underground caves created by volcanic activity, could provide protected spaces large enough

Life Underground

According to radar data from the agency’s SELENE lunar orbiter, publishedThursday in Geophysical Research Letters, the chasm is less than 330 feet beneath the surface and around 300 feet wide—dimensions that could comfortably house inhabitants. Other lava tubes were hinted at by the presence of “skylights,” or areas where the roof of the tube has collapsed, exposing it to the surface above. It’s not yet known how many such skylights exist for this cave.

Lava tubes formed billions of years ago when the moon was still geologically active and molten rock gushed from beneath the surface. Vast lava plains today still mark the moon’s surface, and tunneling through them are channels where lava once ran. In some cases, the lava subsided, leaving a hollow chamber behind. These are similar to the lava tubes found on Earth, and many still exist on the moon.

In fact, the moon’s lower gravity means that the tubes are potentially much larger than on Earth, as they won’t collapse under their own weight as easily. Research in 2015 reported that tubes up to three miles wide could theoretically be possible on the moon, large enough to hold a moderately-sized city.

Caverns tucked into bedrock offer a few key protections for humans living in space. They provide crucial cover from harmful radiation given off by the sun and other cosmic sources, something that Earth’s magnetic field takes care of here. The surrounding rock also serves as an insulator against temperature swings that take the moon’s surface from hot enough to boil water to less than -200 degrees Fahrenheit in the course of a single day. Finally, it also offers some protection from the small meteorites that periodically bombard the moon, although larger collisions are still a worry.

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Next generation orbital space craft could use radar to locate these tunnels, created under the

Gimme Shelter

The prospect of housing astronauts beneath the surface on other planets has been brought up before, such as in 2014 when a NASA probe got hints of lava tubes beneath the moon’s surface. Both China and Russia have announced plans to put a colony on the moon in the next few decades, and the US could be ramping up to make a return there as well. A lunar base would be a convenient staging point for longer missions to Mars and beyond, in addition to an important proof-of-concept for living on other worlds.

There are still a few challenges to be worked out though, most pressing of which is the question of supplies. Constantly shuttling food and water to the moon would be difficult, so settlers would need their own sources of sustenance. The moon likely contains water ice which could be converted into drinking water and even fuel, but food production would require off-world agriculture. There are a few models for this, based largely on hydroponics, but it’s a task that hasn’t been seriously attempted yet.

Nevertheless, if we manage to seal off a lunar cave, as some have suggested, by installing thick glass or metal shields across any openings and pump it full of air, it could be possible. A system of mirrors could funnel sunlight down below, and lunar settlers could live and farm relatively comfortably. The same idea could work on Mars as well; the Red Planet also has caves, in addition to water ice reserves.

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Children will be born on the moon 'in a few decades', with whole families joining Europe's lunar colony by 2050, a top space scientist has claimed. Professor Bernard Foing, ambassador of the Esa-driven 'Moon Village' scheme (concept art pictured), made the comments this week

Cave by cave, humanity could spread across the solar system.

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Cosmologists and ET

Cosmologists and ET


Will we ever discover extraterrestrial life, and, if so, what will it look like? Six experts give their best guess.


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1: Brian Cox: purple slime

Cox suggests that life in the universe is likely abundant. Intelligent life, however, is another matter.

In his 2015 book Human Universe (written with Andrew Cohen), Cox writes there is a sense of “chemical inevitability” to life in the universe. But he adds that complex life on Earth only arose after the emergence of eukaryotes – cells containing organelles.

Research suggests eukaryotes developed as a result of one primitive cell – called a prokaryote, like a bacterium – absorbing another, two billion years ago. (Mitochondria and chloroplasts are descendants of independent prokaryotes that entered symbiotic relationships with larger cells.)

The advent of eukaryotes on Earth was a vanishingly unlikely development. Cox calls it an “evolutionary bottleneck” and thinks it so unusual that it might have happened only once in the universe.

“One can easily imagine that the 20 billion Earth-like worlds in the Milky Way could all be covered in prokaryotic slime,” he writes. “A living galaxy, yes, but a galaxy filled with intelligence? … I’m not so sure.”

2: Chandra Wickramasinghe: bacteria

Together with the late Fred Hoyle, mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist Wickramasinghe developed the astrobiological theory known as panspermia, which holds life on Earth was catalysed arrived as microbes travelling through space on meteors and interstellar dust.

He suggests that microbial life may have landed during the Hadean period, four billion years ago, when lots of smallish meteorites smacked into the planet.

In a paper published in August 2017, he suggests ET might also have been deposited on the moon. Recent evidence indicating the presence of water, he says, “reopens the possibility that microbial life might exist close to the lunar surface”.

3: Paul Davies: indescribable

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In a 2016 paper, The “Hard Problem” of Life, written with Sara Imari Walker, astrobiologist Paul Davies begins with a well-known problem. Given that all life on Earth arose from a single common ancestor, we have no way of knowing what aspects of it are law-like – found in all life, across the universe – and which are specific only to our own biosphere.

It follows that life elsewhere need not involve Earth-like biology or chemistry. Indeed, write Davies and Walker, it is possible that it “will not ultimately be reducible to known physical principles”.

The pair suggests that the true essential for life is information – which somehow “calls the shots”.

Those things that we assume to be fundamental – replication and metabolism – might be features only of “Earth-like” biologies. There is a risk that should we ever encounter ET, we might not recognise it because we lack “a general-purpose set of criteria for identifying it”.

4: Chris Hadfield: oddly familiar

The retired commander of the International Space Station thinks the bizarre 500 million year-old soft-bodied fossils found in Canada’s Burgess Shale hold some clues.

“It’s so wildly different to the life we’re used to,” he says. “There was such wild experimentation through the four billion years of life on Earth.”

We might find life on Mars, or Enceladus, or Europa, he notes, and it might look like an organism that died out during a mass extinction down here.

“But I might have that completely wrong,” he adds. “Some of the strange examples they came up with on Star Trek might be a better representation.”

5: Jason Wright: highly skilled builders and engineers

Wright, an astrophysicist at Penn State University in the US, suggests we need to be looking for the things ET builds.

He suggests focusing the search for intelligent ET on exoplanets. Rather than look for traces of biology, though, we should look for technology.

We should search for giant machines, which are likely to be “be detectable by their waste heat in the mid-infrared.”

Such structures, he says, could include enormous energy-collectors (known as Dyson spheres), satellites and defensive shields.

Looking for them, he notes, need not be expensive. The search can “piggyback on work likely to happen in the future, anyway, as natural anomalies are discovered in the course of exoplanetary science.”

6: Neil deGrasse Tyson: not huge, and hopefully paying attention

In his book Death By Black Hole (2005), Tyson says microbial life is possibly humming away throughout the universe.

Intelligent life, on the other hand, is likely to be very scarce. However, the Copernican Principle – they key idea that we and our planet are not special – implies it must be around somewhere.

He says ET must be limited to a maximum size. It could not be as big as the solar system –10 light years across. Even assuming nerve impulses at the speed of light “if it wanted to scratch its head, then this simple act would take 10 hours to accomplish.”

Tyson hopes that some intelligent ETs are sending out messages into the cosmos, rather than, like us, scanning in the hope of hearing an alien transmission. If not, he writes, “everybody would be listening, nobody would be receiving, and we would collectively conclude that there is no other intelligent life in the universe.”

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Does this video show a UFO in skies over Cumbria?

Does this video show a UFO in skies over Cumbria?

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UFO sighted over Alton in the early hours of Tuesday morning, part of small area flap of sightings

UFO sighted over Alton in the early hours of Tuesday morning, part of small area flap of sightings

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UFO sighted over Alton in the early hours of Tuesday morning, part of small area flap of sightings

UFO sighted over Alton in the early hours of Tuesday morning, part of small area flap of sightings

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Scientists Want Us to Live in Lava Tubes on the Moon

Scientists Want Us to Live in Lava Tubes on the Moon

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When astronauts are sent to the Moon, they'll need to find suitable shelter to survive its environment. According to JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, lava tubes are an excellent option.

THE BEST PLACE TO BE IS UNDERGROUND

Because the moon has no atmosphere and is home to a host of unfriendly occurrences like extreme temperature variation, radiation, and meteorite impacts, astronauts who venture to our nearest neighbor will need to find proper shelter before they can accomplish anything outside of their vehicle. Human-made colonies are still a ways off, if they ever happen, and to create them we would need to use materials naturally occurring on the moon itself and, according to JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the safest form of shelter would be the interior of a lava tube.

Lava tubes may not sound like the safest place for a human to reside, but it should be noted that these tubes become structurally stable once the lava flow has stopped and the newly formed tunnel drains completely. These tubes are also found on Earth, but they usually pale in comparison to the size of lava tubes created on the moon which are often large enough to comfortably house an entire U.S. city.

“It’s important to know where and how big lunar lava tubes are if we’re ever going to construct a lunar base,” said Junichi Haruyama, a senior researcher at JAXA. “But knowing these things is also important for basic science. We might get new types of rock samples, heat flow data and lunar quake observation data.”

TAKING ADVANTAGE OF LAVA TUBES

In order to better understand the moon’s lava tubes, JAXA relied on radar data gathered by the SELENE spacecraft which currently orbits the lunar body. They also consulted with NASA scientists who worked on the 2011 NASA Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission — a mission in which a pair of spacecraft orbited the moon to collect data on its gravitational field. Using GRAIL’s information, the JAXA team was able to cut down the amount of data they needed to sort through and they eventually found evidence of lava tubes near Marius Hills — a set of volcanic domes located on the moon.

Marius Hills Skylight. Image Credit: NASA/Arizona State University Marius Hills Skylight. Image Credit: NASA/Arizona State University

“They knew about the skylight in the Marius Hills, but they didn’t have any idea how far that underground cavity might have gone,” said Jay Melosh, a GRAIL co-investigator and Distinguished Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University. “Our group at Purdue used the gravity data over that area to infer that the opening was part of a larger system. By using this complimentary technique of radar, they were able to figure out how deep and high the cavities are.”

Discovering lava tubes is essential to our plans to send people to the moon and eventually, potentially, colonize it. Earlier this month, Vice President Mike Pence said the moon was “a vital strategic goal” that would improve our ability to travel further than ever before. This clearly implies the global goal of reaching Mars, with Elon Musk’s plans of potentially creating habitats on the red planet with his boring drill.

If lava tubes prove to be a worthwhile form of shelter, it will bring us one step closer to learning how to survive in the less than favorable conditions found in our solar system. It’s only a matter of time before humans call another planet, or the moon, “home.”

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Latest: Proof That Humans Are Not From Earth, But Aliens Brought Us Here

Latest: Proof That Humans Are Not From Earth, But Aliens Brought Us Here

Ellis Silver has work for a long time to convey his very questionable perspectives to the general visibility. Silver trusts that individuals are not local to the planet Earth and that they were brought here by an exceptionally propelled extraterrestrial animal types, and he trusts he has the confirmation to demonstrate that his hypothesis is valid. The establishment of Silver's contention is that there are profoundly uncommon attributes inalienable to every single person which aggregately propose that the species isn't altogether at home on this planet. For example, the beams of the sun can be unimaginably unsafe, if not deadly to individuals on the off chance that they are presented to it for delayed timeframes. People are additionally stunned, or even blinded by taking a gander at the sun, which does not have all the earmarks of being the situation for different animals on this planet.Human creatures likewise endure a colossal scope of unending medical problems. A standout amongst the most well-known ceaseless medical issue is awful backs which, once more, isn't apparent in some other type of species on this planet
Latest: Proof That Humans Are Not From Earth, But Aliens Brought Us Here
This recommends to Ellis that individuals developed on a planet where the gravitational power was lower. Besides, people additionally encounter other medical issues which come from the body expecting a twenty five hour day – something which has been affirmed by rest specialists. At long last, Ellis focuses to the procedure of human origination, incubation and birth. The procedure in itself is unparalleled in its wastefulness with regards to the set of all animals. It is additionally laden with characteristic perils and represents a genuine wellbeing danger to the mother.
Once more, this isn't a trademark that can be seen in some other species on this planet. Further to this, the human genome presents with an additional 223 qualities which are not clear in some other Earth-local species. People have likewise been unequipped for following the family tree of the species to culmination are as yet pondering the supposed 'missing connection'. Silver composes that the majority of this recommends to him that people developed on an alternate planet.
Theorizing with reference to how the species couldn't have wound up on Earth, he recommended that this planet might be a 'jail planet' as people are an uncommonly vicious species. "We're here until the point that we figure out how to observe the rules, " he composed. At the point when Silver at first discharged his hypothesis into general society space, he was met with boundless mocking and doubt. "It is conceivable to drive a mentor and stallions through a few of his contentions, " said one trenchant commentator. In any case, late disclosures may recommend that there is something in Silver's hypotheses. 
A progression of late tests have discovered that when shots are shot into ice blends which are usually found on comets from space they make amino acids, which are simply the building pieces of life. This disclosure has driven specialists, for example, Nir Goldman to presume that it is conceivable that comets were in charge of touching off life on this planet. "These outcomes affirm our prior forecasts of effect amalgamation of prebiotic material, where the effect itself can yield life-building mixes, "
µGoldman said. "These outcomes display a noteworthy advance forward in our comprehension of the root of the building pieces of life. This expands the odds of life beginning and being across the board all through our close planetary system." While these current revelations don't really demonstrate Silver's hypothesis, they do propose that it is totally conceivable that the hereditary premise of people started somewhere else in the universe. This implies Silver's thoughts are not exactly as outlandish as his commentators accept.

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Entrance To AREA 51 Underground Found Near Runway?

Entrance To AREA 51 Underground Found Near Runway?

Entrance To AREA 51 Underground Found Near Runway?

Secret Entrance To AREA 51 Underground Complex?

We received a message from a fan of UFO Seekers, Alex, about new images seen on Google Maps of Area 51. Updated images of the complex is nothing out of the ordinary, but Alex elaborated and said he believes he found a possible underground entrance located right off the main runways at AREA 51!

The area in question may be some kind of retaining wall and might be nothing at all. But we felt they warranted your opinions and comments.

Infamous Black Tower At AREA 51

Here we can see the infamous black tower located at Groom Lake. The images on Google Maps seem to be very clear now. You can see the tower in our Episode named, Traversing Tikaboo Peak To View AREA 51.

Did Something Get Erased At Groom Lake?

Here we can see a glare from a bright object or something has been erased. This area is near the location of the supposed burn pits where AREA 51 employees would burn all trash generated by the top secret facility.

What Do You Think? Underground Entrance?

What do you think the supposed underground entrance is? Is it an entrance to an underground complex hiding UFO technology. UFOs, or aliens?

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Filer’s Files #42-2017 UFOs Do Exist - PART I

Oshawa, Ontario, Canada-- On Saturday, September 30, 2017
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada-- On Saturday, September 30, 2017

Filer’s Files #42-2017 UFOs Do Exist - PART I

In special reports, this week’s files cover: Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding UFOs Do Exist, Halloween May Provide Insight into Abductions, Letter from Alenara, Volcanoes have Caused Volcanic Winter, and The US Is Under Attack.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington.

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Singapore, and England and Scotland in the United Kingdom.

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

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Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding UFOs Do Exist

Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding states,

“More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any “scientific” explanation. I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on Earth. I can therefore see no alternative to accepting the theory that they come from some extraterrestrial source.”

Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. He is considered the mastermind of the successful defense of England from Nazi air power.

Soldier, pilot, wireless pioneer, squadron commander, spiritualist, champion skier, Dowding is perhaps best known as the creator of the first radar-based air defense system the “Dowding System.” and his remarkable management of it throughout the Battle of Britain. He conceived and oversaw the development of an integrated air defense system which included (1) radar (who Dowding was among the first to appreciate), (2) human observers (including the Royal Observer Corps), who filled crucial gaps in the radar), (3) raid plotting, and (4) radio control of aircraft. The whole network was tied together and known as Ground-controlled interception (GCI). He oversaw the creation of Britain’s first eight-gun monoplanes, the Hurricane and Spitfire. Printed in Sunday Dispatch, London, July 11, 1954.

Halloween May Provide Insight into Abductions

 I was surprised to learn some startling similarities in ancient folklore of Halloween and modern abduction stories. Apparently, Halloween started with the Druids several thousand years ago who were a great far-reaching priesthood who ruled over a people known as the Celts in ancient England, Scotland and Ireland. The Druids were in control of everything and served as priests, teachers, prophets, doctors, and lawyers. Their interest in the universe and building capabilities suggest they had help from extraterrestrials. The bodies found in the burial mounds suggest non human or enlarged advanced alien skulls.

They were often cruel and superstitious. The Irish Druids believed that on Samhain evil spirits came out of the Cave of Cruachan known as “the gate of hell”. With them came copper colored birds that killed farm animals, and stole babies, leaving demons (changelings) in their place.

Today, abductees tell similar stories that their babies have been taken and their animals mutilated by the aliens. The word itself, “Halloween,” actually has its origins in the Catholic Church. It comes from a contracted corruption of All Hallows  Eve, “All Hollows Day” or “All Saints Day”. But, in the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on October 31 and on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the next year.

The Celts believed all laws of space and time were suspended during this time, allowing the spirit world to intermingle with the living. Naturally, the still-living did not want to be possessed. So on the night of October 31, villagers would extinguish the fires in their homes, to make them cold and undesirable. They would then dress up in all manner of ghoulish costumes and noisily parade around in order to frighten away spirits looking for bodies to possess.

 Jacques Vallee one the premier researchers states,

“The ‘medical examination’ to which abductees’ are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscent of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework, any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks.”

Halloween originally a festival of fire and death, is still celebrated by Satanists, and witches as the High (Black) Sabbath and is celebrated by orgy and sacrifice. Halloween celebrates a spirit world of witches, ghosts, hobgoblins, ghouls, demons, phantoms, Dracula, and even monster aliens. It is becoming one the most celebrated holidays in the United States and millions of children dress in costumes, masks, and go to their neighbor’s doors asking for candy or gifts. On this night flying witches and unidentified flying objects were observed.

Those who have investigated abductions may see some of the similarities between the ancient customs and today’s accounts from abductees. It is possible UFOs come from places we cannot comprehend; and the aliens are beings we cannot even understand? Reality may include concepts, ideas, and factors we never considered. These earthly demonic forces may choose masquerade as ET.The Druids claimed to be able to change into animals and shape-shift, to become invisible. Offerings of food and drink were put out for the ghosts who came to warm themselves in familiar households. The origins of Trick or Treat are interesting. The Druid priests would go from house to house demanding food, and if they were given none, they would speak a demonic curse over the household to cause someone to die within the next year. They carried with them a large turnip or pumpkin, carved out on the inside with a demonic face carved in the front.

 Today, children dressed as ghosts and goblins often match the descriptions of aliens. Although, many UFO investigators conclude we are being visited by advanced alien civilizations, other respected investigators have come to very different conclusions – John A. Keel for example states, “The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.” “Operation Trojan Horse”

During this Halloween season it might be worth considering other possibilities for the alien presence. http://members.tripod.com/~KarleenP/holidays/HALLOWEEN.htm

Letter from Alenara

When President Reagan told the United Nations, “Are there not already aliens among us?” Was he talking about people like Alenara?

Alenara a lady who lives in Sweden writes, 

“I would like to tell you that I have arrived, here on Earth and I am an alien incarnation, and I come from another world. I am sure you are open to contact. There is much life in the outer space, and some of us come here! Life on earth has us come   here in subtle forms; many of us – alien visitors – work on improvement for earth and for life here, without ever letting others know of our presence!

 I am however planning to be one of us who change the world. And do so openly. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Amherana Kha’re (how you spell my name depends on the pronunciation). Some time ago, I was living on my planet, in my home world. I can show you which star to look at inthe night sky!

My home world is named Telmaar. We have only sent two individuals from our world to earth. It is I, and another. I know all about my companion, and will tell you about him, his whereabouts, his life mission, and we can even locate him if this is desired.  I am a scientist. At home I worked with collecting all known science, the   universal truth, that is, what is true science in spite of any beings interpreting or perceiving it in their own ways. This information was stored in a kind of libraries of ours, and I worked there, processing the information. I was in equivalent of earth years more than 370 years. Our average life span on that planet is equivalent of 1200 years.  Persons of up to 200 years are considered adolescent by our people, in our   world. I am sent here to work with science.” 

In 1962, I was in proximity of planet Earth. We could hear radio broadcasts from earth, in our spaceship. I remember looking down toward the blue planet earth, wondering when my eyes would once look up from there below. It would last until 1980 when my suitable incarnation would be found. I remember the summer of 1982, traveling out of my body, in Sweden, watching the green birch trees, mountains and forests. October 1982, I was born.  My life here has been difficult. At age 5, old enough to speak, I told people about immortality. One of the first things I ever said was “I am 300 years old.” My family did their best to suppress these aspects of me. I was always able to remember who I was.  I have had contact with otherworldly (alien) people all this life. They helped me learn and remember science, and enhanced my telepathic and extrasensory perception. Today I am able to see all molecules, atoms, electrons, electrical and magnetic fields, gravity, and more. Facing any object or situation, I sense all information of it such as a person’s health status, his emotions, thoughts and dreams. I have incredible knowledge in chemistry, physics, and any other aspect of science that is not yet known here on earth. It is knowledge I have with me, from my home world.

I can manifest atoms and soon also larger objects and am learning to gain back my abilities and knowledge as I had prior to my incarnation. On my home world, we do not eat solid foods, our bodies are manifested in ways that I am learning to now apply to my human being, and go periods without eating or  drinking, gaining incredible health and bodily rejuvenation. I am an alien manifestation. I am here for you, whenever you need to have contact. I can let you meet my alien contacts; they will gladly show you spaceships (UFOs) if we go together. I can heal any illness or bodily discomfort that you might have. Rejuvenation is here for you. Any science you ask for is yours.    We are here for you.  Much love, Lenora, and the people of Telmaar

Editor’s Note: I have interviewed Alenara and found her to be a remarkable lady who speaks six languages. We are skeptical of her claims, but feel it is only fair to test and learn more about her alien contacts and to her ability to prove her claims. I’m convinced she believes what she tells us. I have pointed out to her that remarkable claims require remarkable proof, and she states she is up to the test.

Volcanoes have Caused Volcanic Winter

The scientists who claim global warming may not be correct due to the quieting of the sun and increasing volcanic activity. For example, Australian Professor Ian Plimer’s book is a brief summary “Okay, here’s the bombshell, the volcanic eruption in Iceland. Since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just four days, negated every single effort you have made in the past year to control CO2 emissions on our planet.

Of course, you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress – it’s that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans and all animal life. Professor Ian Plimer’s University of New England, University of Newcastle, University of Melbourne, University of Adelaide

  • The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer (also the Poverty Year, the Summer that Never Was, Year There Was No Summer, and Eighteen Hundred people Froze to Death) because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7C (0.7–1.3 °F). This resulted in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.[

Evidence suggests that the volcanic winter event was caused by the massive the April 5–15, 1815 eruption  in the  on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia,  (the largest eruption in at least 1,300 years after the extreme weather events of 535–536). It snowed August and the frost was followed by a major typhusepidemic in Ireland between 1816 and 1819, precipitated by the famine caused by the Year without a summer. An estimated 100,000 Irish perished with an estimated 200,000 Europeans died.

Many thousands of farm families who were wiped out by the event left  the Northeast and Northwest Territory) in search of  better growing conditions. My family left New Jersey and traveled to Illinois.

The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa caused average Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures to fall by as much as 1.2 C (2.2 F). The Earth had already been in a centuries-long period of global cooling that started in the 14th century. Known today as the Little Ice Age, it had already caused considerable agricultural distress in Europe.

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth’s atmosphere by volcanoes in just a few  days can erase the world wide efforts to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud at any one time. Volcanoes can have drastic effects on the weather, such as the volcano Mt Pinatubo that erupted in the Philippines in 1991, and was active for over a year – it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted that year. Volcanoes emit significant amounts of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen into the atmosphere that can reduce the sun’s heating effects.

The Earth and other planets are in a well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which keeps happening despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.

Active volcanoes shown on the map are all spewing greenhouse gases at this time.

And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud, but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate most of our efforts to reduce carbon in our world and seems to happen every year.

Dr. Pilmer states, “Isn’t it interesting how they don’t mention ‘Global Warming’ anymore, but just ‘Climate Change’ – you know why? It’s because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century.” There is a climbing number of active volcanoes that appear to be growing in intensity that could reduce the temperatures on Earth as was accomplished in the past. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 led to odd weather patterns and temporary cooling in the United States, particularly in the Midwest and parts of the Northeast.

The volcano, colloquially known as ‘Popo’, recently erupted spewing ash into the atmosphere. Mexico’s National Disaster Prevention Center (CENAPRED) said that “the seismic monitoring systems of the Popocatépetl volcano recorded 11 low-intensity exhalations and three explosions indicating it may intensify…Severe earthquakes in the area are likely tied to the increased activity. A series of earthquakes and active volcanoes has occurred in Central and South America. It is logical to assume the disruptions will spread to the Western United States.

The Ring of Fire dominates the Pacific Ocean. It’s a string of at least 450 active and dormant volcanoes that form a semi-circle, or horse shoe, around the Pacific Plates. There is a lot of seismic activity in the area. Essentially, the Pacific tectonic plates are pushing against the land creating a subduction zones a region of the Earth’s crust where plates meet.. Tectonic plates are massive pieces of the Earth’s crust that interact with each other in the Ring of Fire. About 90 percent of all earthquakes strike within the Ring of Fire. This means people’s lives are under almost constant threat in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, all the way east to the western seaboard of the North and South Americas.

UFOs are often seen flying near volcanoes and they also appear to be very interested in the earthquakes and volcanoes.

There is a record swarm of earthquakes  at Yellowstone National Park indicating a super volcano WARNING:

A video has surfaced on YouTube which appears to show a craft darting over the potentially catastrophic Yellowstone volcano.

The strange craft appears to be metallic and shiny, and darts across the left of the screen. The video was taken on June 9, but only recently uploaded to YouTube with the caption “Impressive UFO near the Yellowstone Volcano”.

The Yellowstone National Park has long been a hotspot for alien enthusiasts, with sightings regularly reported there. The eruption comes after a spate of volcanic activity around the world – with all eyes on the Aging volcano in Bali which is showing signs of erupting. Agung Volcano in Indonesia is preparing to evacuate 140,000 locals. Thanks to John P. Rafferty and Ian Plimer’s

The US Is Under Attack

Weather can be controlled and fires can be easily be lit to sabotage any country. Don’t be so sure the devastation  in the US and Puerto Rico is simply Mother nature acting up. Terrorists and other enemies attempt to accomplish sabotage without being caught.

North Korea has threatened the US claiming its missiles could wipe out the US power grid with an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strategic weapon. They are already conducting cyber security to sabotage our electrical grid system. Additionally, most of the North Korean missiles reach several hundred miles above the Earth and are now believed able to reach the US mainland. They also have dozens of submarines that can reach our coastline and launch missiles. The EMP burst’s objective is to saturate the US power grid underneath it with energy flowing into the wiring and key transformers.

Medium Sized Transformer

The goal is to burn out the transformer cores of the three hundred or so high voltage transformers that link the US together as an industrial age economy. Effective EMP bursts could wipe out virtually all electric power for months or even years. The average household would be dark; the food would soon run out with gas stations, stores and banks closed. The whole American economy would soon stop functioning with no computers, phones, TV and credit cards etc. There is only one plant that manufactures these types’ transformers in the US and it does not even make the biggest ones needed for the US grid backbone.  These have to come from China or Europe.

In 2004, two Russian generals, both EMP experts, warned the EMP Commission that the design for Russia’s super-EMP warhead, capable of generating high intensity EMP fields of 200,000 volts per meter, was “accidentally” transferred to North Korea, and that due to “brain drain,” Russian scientists were in North Korea, helping with their missile and nuclear weapon programs. Russian scientists are now in North Korea helping develop an EMP nuclear weapon. In 2013, a Chinese military commentator stated North Korea has super-EMP nuclear weapons.[2]

Super-EMP weapons are low-yield and designed to produce not a big kinetic explosion, but rather a high level of gamma rays, which generate the high-frequency E1 EMP that is most damaging to the broadest range of electronics such as your computer, heater, TV, and mobile phone. North Korean nuclear tests have yields consistent with the size of a super-EMP weapon. The Russian generals’ warning about a North Korean super-EMP weapon should be taken very seriously.

An EMP attack does not require an accurate guidance system because the area of effect, having a radius of hundreds or thousands of kilometers, is so large. No reentry vehicle is needed because the warhead is detonated at high-altitude, above the atmosphere. North Korea could make an EMP attack against the United States by launching a short-range missile off a freighter, submarine or even by balloon. While such lower-altitude EMP attacks would not cover the whole US mainland, as would an attack at higher-altitude (300 kilometers). Even a balloon-lofted warhead detonated at 30 kilometers altitude could blackout the Eastern Grid that supports most of the population and generates 75 percent of US electricity. North Korea announced they have developed a hydrogen bomb designed for EMP use. Their apparent weapon of choice is a high energy nuclear bomb designed to deliver an EMP burst from high altitude over the United States mainland.

The eastern seaboard of the United States that has our oldest electrical grid is the most vulnerable part of the country to such an attack. Minimal investments have been made to harden this grid against man made EMP attack or the natural disaster version of the threat, the solar coronal mass ejection (CME). The US and any of its allies are both vulnerable and susceptible to EMP attack. Without electricity particularly in cold weather thousands could easily perish. Entire metropolitan regions and economic centers may collapse.

By the time we emerge, the US would not be the same as we know it today. NASA watches a deep space network that watches the sun and issues warnings to power companies to curtail or shut down loads on the grid to protect it if needed. With quick early warning it’s possible we could deliberately black out or decouple the US power grid in the event of an incoming EMP threat.

As each day goes by North Korea is building better long range ballistic missiles. Fifty years of negotiation with North Korea have failed, so the US has deployed four anti- missile batteries that are now operational some 180 miles southeast of Seoul.

A kinetic energy strike minimizes the risk of detonating a conventional warhead, while it will also not trigger an explosion of a nuclear warhead. A THAAD battery consists of at least six [ launcher vehicles, each equipped with eight missiles, with two mobile tactical operations centers (TOCs) and the AN/TPY-2 ground-based radar (GBR). Each missile weighs just over 1,980 lbs and is 20 feet long. The system has an operational range of around 125 miles and a missile travels at Mach 8.24 – or slightly more than 6,260 mph – to its target and is designed to knock out medium range missiles and is probably not effective against ICBMs.

The THAAD interceptor carries no warhead but relies on advanced infra-red tracking to intercept its target and the kinetic energy of the impact to destroy the inbound missile. North Korean test launches have been observed climbing to high altitudes suggesting they are testing EMP capabilities.

An EMP nuclear explosion potentially provides devastating energy overload threats to the grid depending on the height power ,and location of the blast. If we are unable to intercept the North Korean missiles at least our largest transformers need protection. Our strategic goal here is to prevent a cascading catastrophic failure of our electrical grid.  If we can do that, we reduce our susceptibility and vulnerability to a possible North Korean attack.

We need to confound Kim Jong Un’s regime to the point that it comes to its senses. Doing so creates powerful leverage to rein in rogue states. That’s the best path back to global stability. The United States of America is in a unique position to bring this to an end strongly and peacefully without any mushrooms having to cloud this planet’s skies. Our leaders have to take these facts into account when protecting the US. Thanks to the nvhe-buzz.

PARAWEEN 2017

October 21, 2017 Salem, MA

 About PARAWEEN 2017 Salem Conference
This October 21, 2017, Paraween will hold its inaugural UFO Fest, Alienated at the Salem Waterfront Hotel, with Speakers, Travis Walton, Mike Bara (Ancient Aliens) and Thom Reed (Alien Mysteries)

All Paraween events are in celebration of true local history. There’s remarkable history in around Salem, from the Witch Trials to our Nations first UFO case to be inducted into State as Historically True. “

We bring what’s missing from many UFO, Haunt and Paranormal Events, the Fun! Coupled with Solid Information, Incredible Speakers and Free Photo Ops.

PARAWEEN: Fan Culture, Sci-fi, UFO and Haunt Cons. We unveil the media suppression and spotlight the legitimacy of legends, UFO encounters and the Paranormal, in Cosplay Form.

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Filer’s Files #42-2017 UFOs Do Exist - PART II

Filer’s Files #42-2017 UFOs Do Exist - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

California Marks

Santa Ana – On July 16, 2017, the marks will be visible for about 3 days. They don’t hurt or cause any discomfort. What I did notice is that would I would feel really tired as if I was on the road for quite a while. It happened almost at the same time, 5 years ago.

Note: We have received several reports of strange body marks during the past few years. The marks appear to be “unnatural” and generally disappear in a few days.

Click here to view other reports involving body marks. Thanks to William Puckett, Director

Colorado Lights

 Colorado Springs – I opened the front door and noticed an incredibly brilliant red, pulsating, circular, very large craft on October 11, 2017, at 9:30 PM! The craft looked like it was hovering near the western slope of the North Cheyenne Mt. Canyon. I say to Chris, who was sleeping, “You won’t believe this!”  Chris got up and was astonished at the huge object “Over 300 feet.”
We noticed a red orb shooting east and white orbs shooting west  on some type of ‘operation/routine.  The orb heading west, went   to the canyon and then returned back to the craft gliding quickly, into the craft. Then the red orb returned and glided into the craft. Was this highly synchronized ballet set up to impress the Air Force Academy personnel? Chris & I watched this type of activity go on for 20 minutes as this craft started to really pulsate with the bright red lights and turned into a cross in the sky.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Lights

Panama City Beach — I simply wanted a photo of the full moon a few minutes before it set over the Gulf of Mexico on October 6, 2017. The image was made from the 2nd floor balcony of the hotel room at 6:47 p.m., where my sister and I were staying. We did not see or hear the object.

“Two days later, I was reviewing and enlarged the images and I was surprised to see the dark object in the sky. I can’t offer any description of it. While I agree that you may use the image, I retain all intellectual property rights. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Hawaii Light

 Kalaheo — A friend of mine called me at four in the morning on October 9, 2017. . He is on Eastern Time, six hours ahead of us, and didn’t realize it was 4am for me. I walked outside, so I wouldn’t wake my wife. As we talked, I looked straight up noticing the moon and how bright it was. Then, as I lowered my head I noticed this bright object way off, like a star, but much brighter. I could see two nearby stars to use as reference points. The object was very bright and had a symmetrically shaped bright swirl on both sides of it, a mirror image of each other. The object as well as the aura surrounding it moved south maintaining its size and shape the whole time. I brought my wife outside to see it as it grew in size, yet maintaining its shape perfectly. It finally disappeared completely. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Kansas Orb

Wellington — As we moved north along the highway on October 8, 2017, we observed a bright object in the sky. It seemed to be above the fields and several other cars pulled over at the toll plaza to observe it, as well. This is conjecture. Anyone looking up could see it.
Upon getting home and unpacking we checked the “live” photos my husband took from his iPhone 7. Any movement seen is from our speed along the highway. This thing did not move. Dark spots can be seen around the edges of the orb. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Maryland ‘Light

Cecilton — I didn’t notice it until I sent the photo of the moon to my wife and she noticed it.

I took the picture in live mode on my iPhone 7.

So when you put your finger on the photo the blue whitish orb moves abruptly. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Michigan UFO

 Detroit — While part of a small filming crew, stationed in a local city park. I took a break and lay down in late August and while staring at the sky an object materialized almost directly overhead. It was in the sun and rather high up, and it had a definite shape to it. It had sharp edges and was definitely not an airplane. I tried to film it so as to verify what I saw but my cell phone, was 100 feet away. I sprinted to get the phone, and pointed it in the direction of where I saw it last, it had moved a good distance away and was under cloud cover. At this point it looked as though a silent dark sphere were moving away from me. The object became very faint and I stopped filming it as disappeared into the clouds. When I got home that evening, I used Windows Paint to reproduce what I initially saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Orb

Old Bridge – I was leaving my parents residence when I noticed the object fly towards me on August 27, 2017. It hovered with no sound. It appeared to spin when it stopped its flight. Then it moved a bit more and disappeared. Three minutes later a black helicopter came into the area. This is the third time since May 2016; I’ve seen a strange object like this in the same area. I have videos of other ones but one is 9:54 minutes too long to upload.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

New York Lights

 Logandale – There were multiple occurrences in same location on July 20, 2017. Varying times – almost always in the evening and night – I viewed area during daylight under magnification with no observable traffic.

They were too low for military/commercial flights in restricted airspace. There were never flashes in sequence and they were too long for tourist helicopters – and they do not go to this area. The longest observation in same location was for almost an hour. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS

North Carolina Cylinder

Kill Devil Hill — My wife and I were on vacation in the Outer Banks riding in an open truck to view the wild horses on the beach, The truck stopped, and we were told to buckle up, as I observed what at first, thought was dark looking cloud. The whole sky was perfectly beautiful, but this long, square, object, had straight lines, on several of its sides. I immediately told my wife, who took a quick look, but was more interested in seeing horses. As the tour trucks engine starts up again, I looked up at it and saw a different object in size and shape. I decided to take a photo of the first long square looking object I’d say is 3-4000 feet long. I am assuming it’s quite large as, I can plainly see it up in the sky. The first object was moving up into the clouds. I used a Nikon Coolpix 12 MB camera. Thanks to MUFON CMS

North Dakota Orb

It was a sphere at the top of the sky as a lighted golf ball.

I took photos on November 5, 2017. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Ohio Object

Hamersville — At midnight UFO was seen hovering over our location with three lights on each corner of a triangle shaped craft. It had two green and one orange light. After ten minutes it began to shine a light across the farm fields in our area. It this for several minutes, and then moved away.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Oklahoma UFO

Tecumseh — My sighting took place sometime in late October or early November of 1989, I was 17 and finishing up my shift at 1:15 AM. I began driving down Cooper Drive near Shawnee towards Tecumseh when I noticed a large source of light coming from what I assumed were the baseball field lights.

After exiting where the baseball field is located, I noticed the lights were gone. I traveled to Walnut and Rangeline when I noticed an object hovering 30 feet above me. I got out of my car to see the silent object 29 feet in length and 6 feet in height. It had two bulbous attachments underneath and was metallic and seemed to illuminate slightly.

I witnessed it for 3 minutes until it flew away northeast. I made a U-turn and chased it to the 177 exit. I could see the object gaining altitude and speed. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Texas Light

Dallas — 1) I was connecting a trailer to my rig on October 8, 2017.and noticed a bright light.
2) I noticed it never moved and pulled out my Sky View app and it didn’t show it being a star.
3) Pretty interesting.
4) The object never moved but faded out with the rise of the sun.
5) I thought it was odd.
6) I finally lost sight after I headed west on hey 114. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington Orb


Port Angeles — I was shooting with a Nikon D-610 (24 mp camera on September 29, 2017. I was shooting at a very fast speed (1/1600 sec @ F-8 ISO @ 317) and my zoom lens was at the 140 mm range when the shot was taken. As you can see, the orb shaped object shadows are in the same position as the shadows on the mountain (on right side), so the light source was coming from the same direction. It appears to me that the orb is further away than the mountain peak.

I’ve shot 500,000 images and this orb is the first time I have seen this type of image in one of my photos.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Brazil Lights

Fortaleza — I was going to the window to observe the landscape, when I came across three bright objects flying in a triangular formation on October 6. 2017. They were not planes, because where I live is near an airport and I constantly see planes. The objects made no sound and were glowing with a yellow light. They were flying slowly and the biggest light was flying in front of the others. I just took a picture and left the window in fear, because I was alone in my house and they were approaching. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Canada Object

 Oshawa, Ontario — I went onto my deck when something caught my eye on Saturday, September 30, 2017, I could see west to the north less than one mile away a low spinning white translucent object flashing white light on and off.  It moved low heading south at about five handed feet high, I grabbed my camera and took six pictures as it moved across and then heading west at 2:06 pm. That’s when I lost sight of it due the roofs looking west. It had speed as the sighting lasted only in total 30 – 40 seconds and zoom photographed this object. This photo reveals detail of some form of a craft Thanks once again for your interest and time into the matter George. Paul Shishis \

Germany Light

Donauwörth – I filmed an object and I was of the opinion we had full moon on October 7, 2017! Tonight is no full moon!

Observed me, and have no idea what she has for with me! I get no help from nobody! The Doctor said I belong to emergency psychiatry! I have fear!.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

Ambach — I did not see or hear this object on October 2, 2017. Only when I checked the photos of this day did I recognize this globe-shape tiny structure. I took a few other pictures at the same time but they were clear with no dirt on the lens. I don’t think it is a reflection of the sun or the moon.

Maybe you have already seen phenomenon’s like this.
The photo was taken by a Samsung Galaxy A5 Smartphone.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

Japan Object

Kawaguchiko – I was taking some pictures of Mount Fuji early in the morning on September 9, 2017.

I noticed the object once I came back to Italy on my PC monitor. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Nepal Orb

Kathmandu – On August 5, 2017, my girlfriend was watering in my garden at 9am when she saw something very long and unusual. It was a straight white line coming from the south of Kathmandu. At the end of the line was a big circle in the middle of the sky.
When I looked up the circle was very big and it looked like a rainbow making a circle and inside the circle looks like the deep sea.
I wanted to take the picture because the sky looked so unusual. After one hour that circle suddenly disappeared.
Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Zealand Object

I took a fortuitous photo taken from a car during a holiday in New Zealand on January 10, 2015. .

I recognized the mysterious objects after years.

I don’t remember any important facts about the moment that I took that photo.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Singapore Triangle

Singapore — I am staying at the last level of my block (level 16) and tending to my plants at 10.50 pm on October 10, 2017. It was a very clear and cloudless night when I looked up and saw this boomerang like “cloud” flying by.

The “cloud” has a very faint body and it maintained its shape while speeding past. Wind direction at this time was towards northeast but I observed it flying directly towards east. I estimate it to be about 2km away from where I am looking. It covered the entire distance from left to right in just a couple of seconds.
There is neither light nor sound coming from the object. This  is not the actual picture but a photo of the view which I added to illustrate what I witnessed. The size of the “cloud” illustrated in the picture is exactly the size in relative to the buildings below. Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/England Disc

 Manchester – The sky was bright blue and sun incredibly white. It was too bright to look anywhere near it on October 6, 2017. We were walking near our house and noticed more and more trails being left across the sky in a pattern unlike the usual flight paths.. The pattern became a full cross hatch over the whole area. There were two small jets swerving across the sky appearing to survey the area. Suddenly we noticed a glinting reflective motionless orb which was next to a cloud. It looked at times like a bright light and then a glinting reflective orb. It hung in the air with the clouds going in front and behind it, and then it slowly moved upwards and slightly further away. We took a few photos of it and then a short video. Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/Scotland Disc

Edinburg – While looking at pictures from Scotland we noticed this object in the background.

It doesn’t look like anything I have ever seen before.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

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Google's Latest Self-Learning AI Is Like an "Alien Civilisation Inventing Its Own Mathematics"

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Google's Latest Self-Learning AI Is Like an "Alien Civilisation Inventing Its Own Mathematics"

Okay, that's pretty awesome.

PETER DOCKRILL

An AI that vanquished humanity at perhaps the most complex traditional game on Earth was inconceivably smart. But not smart enough to survive its own replacement by an even more awesome, alien intelligence.

Google's DeepMind researchers have just announced the next evolution of their seemingly indomitable artificial intelligence – AlphaGo Zero – which has dispensed with what may have been the most inefficient resource in its ongoing quest for knowledge: humans.

Zero's predecessor, dubbed simply AlphaGo, was described as "Godlike" by one of the crestfallen human champions it bested at the ancient Chinese board game, Go, but the new evolution has refined its training arsenal by eradicating human teachings from its schooling entirely.

The AlphaGo versions that kicked our butts at Go in a series of contests this yearand last year first learned to play the game by analysing thousands of human amateur and professional games, but AlphaGo Zero is entirely self-taught, learning by 100 percent independent experimentation.

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In a new study, the researchers report how that uncanny self-reliance sharpened Zero's intelligence to devastating effect: in 100 games against Zero, a previous AlphaGo incarnation – which cleaned the floor with us in 2016 – didn't pick up a single win. Not one.

Even more amazingly, that trumping came after just three days of self-play training by AlphaGo Zero, in which it distilled the equivalent of thousands of years of human knowledge of the game.

"It's like an alien civilisation inventing its own mathematics," computer scientist Nick Hynes MIT told Gizmodo.

"What we're seeing here is a model free from human bias and presuppositions. It can learn whatever it determines is optimal, which may indeed be more nuanced that our own conceptions of the same."

After 21 days of self-play, Zero had progressed to the standard of its most powerful predecessor, known as AlphaGo (Master), which is the version that beat world number one Ke Jie this year, and in subsequent weeks it eclipsed that level of performance.

Aside from the self-reliance, the team behind AlphaGo Zero ascribe its Go dominance to an improved, single neural network (former versions used two in concert), and more advanced training simulations.

But just because the AI is racing ahead at such an awesome – if disquieting – pace, it doesn't necessarily mean Zero is smarter or more capable than humans in other fields away from this complex but constrained board game.

"AI fails in tasks that are surprisingly easy for humans," computational neuroscientist Eleni Vasilaki from Sheffield University in the UK told The Guardian.

"Just look at the performance of a humanoid robot in everyday tasks such as walking, running, and kicking a ball."

That may be true, but allow us our moment of silenced awe as we witness the birth of this astonishingly powerful synthetic way of thinking.

It might not do what humans can do, but it can do so many things we can't, too.

According to DeepMind, those capabilities will one day soon help Zero - or its inevitable, evolving heirs - figure out things like how biological mechanisms operate, how energy consumption can be reduced, or how new kinds of materials fit together.

Welcome to a bright new future, which clearly isn't ours alone.

The findings are reported in Nature.

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Als je sterft weet je dat je dood bent. Dit is wat mensen meemaakten nadat ze waren doodverklaard

Als je sterft weet je dat je dood bent. Dit is wat mensen meemaakten nadat ze waren doodverklaard

Als je sterft weet je dat je dood bent. Dit is wat mensen meemaakten nadat ze waren doodverklaard

Wetenschappers zeggen dat mensen bewust meemaken dat ze dood zijn omdat hun brein actief blijft nadat hun lichaam geen teken van leven meer vertoont.

Theoretisch gezien kan iemand dus zelfs horen dat hij of zij wordt doodverklaard door dokters.

De claim is gedaan door dr. Sam Parnia van het Langone Medical Center van de New York University.

Hele gesprekken

Samen met zijn team onderzoekt hij mensen die een hartstilstand hebben gehad, technisch gezien dus zijn overleden, maar later weer zijn gereanimeerd. Het is de meest omvangrijke studie in zijn soort.

Sommigen zeiden dat ze hele gesprekken konden horen en dingen zagen die om hen heen gebeurden, zelfs nadat ze waren doodverklaard.

Dit werd later ook bevestigd door het verplegend personeel dat op het moment van de hartstilstand aanwezig was.

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Wetenschappers vinden bewijs voor 'leven na de dood'

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De dood wordt gezien als het moment waarop het hart stopt met kloppen en er geen bloed meer naar de hersenen stroomt.

“Het is allemaal gebaseerd op het moment waarop het hart stopt,” zei dr. Parnia. “Er is echter bewijs waaruit blijkt dat er energie vrijkomt in het brein wanneer iemand sterft.”

“We proberen precies te begrijpen wat mensen doormaken op het moment dat ze overlijden,” voegde hij toe. “Het zal ons helpen inzicht te krijgen in de ervaring die we uiteindelijk allemaal zullen hebben als we sterven.”

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Mystery Of UFO Sighting In Welsh and Strange Series of Events That Followed

Mystery Of UFO Sighting In Welsh and Strange Series of Events That Followed

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Schoolchildren claimed to have seen a UFO in a nearby field in 1977, but their teacher did not believe them. They did not have an idea then that it was the beginning of a series of events that stay unexplainable until today.

The lovely sandy beach of the small Pembrokeshire village of Broad Haven in South West Wales has been the favorite spot to enjoy for most visitors to the area. Some find enjoyment in passing through on the Puffin Shuttle bus. Looking at the small village from the outside, the place is just a traditional Welsh seaside resort.

But going into below the surface, there’s confusion, uncertainty, and many questions – just like the classic television science fiction series The X-Files.

Just this week, locals gathered at the village hall to finally attempt in finding answers that have eluded them for 40 years.

Flashback to la1977, something had made the children at the local school to come running all of a sudden into their classroom with their hearts probably pounding with fear.

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The children outside claimed to have seen a mysterious silver object hovering over a field beyond their playground.

Headmaster Ralph Llewellyn did not believe the pupil’s claims and dismissed it without going outside to check the reason. Little did he know, it was a decision he would regret in his entire life.

Today, those children, who already adults, maintain there was only one depiction of what they had witnessed – an unidentified flying object.

Schoolboy David Davies was on the playground when the incident took place that February Friday afternoon. He stood looking at something that would leave him with a fascination and drive to dig in the truth of what was that thing.

He says that it was pearlescent silvery-grey with about 40 feet long and a shape of a torpedo, cigar-shaped. He adds that it had an upper domed section that covered the central third of the UFO and topped with a pulsating red light.

However, their claims were being ignored and David, along with his classmates, passed a petition to the police station.

The headmaster separated the schoolchildren and asked them to draw the UFO they had just seen, and he was amazed to see their drawings were almost the same to each other.

UFO enthusiasts formed a pilgrimage to Broad Haven to celebrate the 40th anniversary of an event in a place known as The Welsh Triangle.

The incident has brought a media frenzy to the tiny farming community in what became the beginning of a series of sightings.

Weeks later after the incident, couple Pauline and Billy Coombes saw a seven-foot humanoid figure in a silvery suit at the windows when they were watching television in their isolated farmhouse late at night. They did not see the face as it was just a black space.

The police investigators who were called to the scene later confirmed that the family couple was so frightened that they did not want to go outside their house. Later in the same year, it was reported that the entire herd of cattle disappeared only to reappear in a faraway field.

The number of sightings continued to grow as well as the interest on them. Rosa Granville, a hotelier residing close to the school, claimed that she saw an apparent upside down saucer late at night when she was awakened by a light coming from it in the field next to her hotel. The object was said to emit flames with two humanoid creatures without faces, but with pointed heads.

Rosa reported the incident to the authorities and a Squadron Leader from nearby RAF Brawdy visited her. The Squadron Leader told her that nothing was unusual on the field and there was nothing that could cause someone to see the strange craft. However, he also asked her not to tell anyone what she had witnessed.

Close to the area of the sightings were high-security military bases, including RAF Brawdy. In the height of the Cold War, RAF Brawdy was believed to be the facility where a top secret US-Soviet submarine listening station was situated but disguised as an oceanographic research center.

The Ministry of Defence did not admit that time that they were carrying out an official inquiry into the affair. It was later reported that the RAF in West Wales was tasked to perform a discreet probe on UFO and alien reports while telling the media and the public that it was no defense significance.

Forty years later and the Broad Haven people are still seeking answers. Recently, a public meeting was held to address questions about what took place back in 1977.

Mr. Davies, the former schoolboy, is now in his fifties and still maintains he observed what he saw. He described what he witnessed during the meeting.

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Aliens ARE out there and are billion year-old super advanced ROBOTS

Aliens ARE out there and are billion year-old super advanced ROBOTS

WHEN humans finally meet beings from outer space they will be high-tech machines, according to a scientist.

By Anders Anglesey 

The aliens are said to be robots who are billions of years old

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Susan Schneider, advanced studies professor at Princeton University, said alien artificial intelligence is probably already out there and is older than mankind itself.

She said: “I don’t not believe that most advanced alien civilisations will be biological.

“The most sophisticated civilisations will be post biological, forms of artificial intelligence or alien superintelligence.”

Stephen Hawking believes in aliens

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BRANIAC: Stephen Hawking has warned against contacting aliens

“I don’t not believe that most advanced alien civilisations will be biological”

Susan Schneider

She added: “All lines of evidence converge on the conclusion that the maximum age of extraterrestrial intelligence would be billions of years, specifically ranges from 1.7 billion to 8 billion years.”

Her claims are backed by other brainiacs who say the period between the discovery of radio waves and cyborgs will be incredibly brief.

Google chief Ray Kurzweil has predicted man will become one with machine in the year 2050.

But scientists say once we have become high-tech beings we’ll be more likely to meet aliens.

There have been man alien sightings reported

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OUT THERE: There have been many reported sightings of aliens

aliens live in far-away galaxies

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FAR AWAY: The aliens are said to live in galaxies many light years from Earth

Some people, however, have said they have already encountered aliens and reported they had more human features than Schneider suggested.

In Florida, a politician claimed she was abducted by aliens who revealed the secrets of the universe to her.

Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, a congressional candidate from Miami, gave an interview in which she said she was abducted.

In a stunning claim she said she was visited by three blonde-haired extraterrestrials when she was seven years old.

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The Scientific Quest to Explain Kepler’s Most Enigmatic Find

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The Scientific Quest to Explain Kepler’s Most Enigmatic Find

Some 1,500 light years from Earth, a mystery of stellar proportions is playing out. A singular star out there captured scientists’ and the public’s imagination in September 2015 with its strangely fluctuating brightness. Ever since then, the scientific community has been observing this enigmatic character and sifting methodically through the data in search of an answer. Certain explanations are eliminated, while other likely suspects come to the fore. Meanwhile, the world has the chance to watch, as the scientific process and the mystery continue to unfold.

The star under scrutiny is officially known as KIC 8462852, but was nicknamed “Tabby’s Star,” for its discoverer, Tabetha Boyajian, an assistant professor of astrophysics at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. It first became famous when data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope revealed that sudden and significant dips in its brightness had occurred in 2011 and 2013. The star’s light dimmed by as much as a whopping 22 percent for days at a time. No other star out of more than 200,000 that Kepler measured during its original, four-year mission behaves in exactly this way.

“This [dimming] behavior was not something we were looking for or had trained our algorithms to find,” Boyajian said. "In fact, we were first alerted to the star’s unique activity by citizen scientists participating in the Planet Hunters program."

A Stellar Detective Story

The internet’s favorite theory to explain the strange phenomenon was that this could be a Dyson sphere—a hypothetical structure built by an advanced alien civilization to collect energy from its star. However, new data from NASA’s Spitzer space telescope and the Swift mission, along with a Belgian observatory used by amateur astronomers, provide strong evidence against such a “megastructure"

These observers were looking at another type of enigmatic behavior from Boyajian’s star: a less extreme, long-term dimming that is also difficult to explain. What they found tells us something about the sudden dips in the star’s light, too: Their results show that a large, solid object like the hypothesized structure would not cause starlight to dim in the precise way the telescopes observed.

The scientific community has actually favored a number of more plausible explanations all along. These scenarios are subjected to the same rigorous assessment: a group of researchers leans toward a particular idea, they make observations of the star, analyze the data, compare their proposed scenario against the findings of other researchers worldwide, and see how it all adds up.

The most recent findings, based on the new data from Spitzer and Swift, point the finger at an uneven dust cloud orbiting the star to explain the long, slow dimming of the star, which may prove related to the short dips in brightness. As for the latter, one study has suggested that a star orbited by a ringed planet and clusters of asteroids could exhibit the same strange dimming behavior. Yet another has considered a planet being pulled apart and swallowed up by the star. These relative newcomers to the mystery have followed other explanations previously put on trial by scientists for the strange behavior of Boyajian’s star. Here are a few of the “accused,” and the evidence that exonerated them.

Could it be a swarm of comets?

One explanation for Boyajian’s star’s mysterious short-term dimming behavior could be a swarm of comets – hundreds of them, at least – passing in front of the star. Such a large amount of debris could be capable of blocking enough light to dim the star considerably, and at irregular intervals, but here, too, it has thrown scientists a curve ball. The temperature of all the dust and debris associated with a horde of disintegrating comets should make it glow in the infrared – something the Spitzer telescope would be able to see. Spitzer, however, found no excess infrared radiation.

What about an object eclipsing the star?

Could it be a large object passing in front of the star? This is the type of dimming that Kepler was designed to detect in its hunt for exoplanets: like a mini-eclipse, a planet crossing the face of its star will cause a tiny, but observable, decrease in the brightness. In this case, though, the extreme dimming events would require a star-sized object, and the gravitational force exerted on Boyajian’s star by such a companion would be obvious in follow-up observations. Nothing has been detected so far.

“When I first saw the data, I was immediately reminded of the eclipsing triple-star systems discovered by Kepler – systems like KOI-126, which show similar patterns of irregular, eclipse-like dimmings,” said Natalie Batalha, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. But, again, a star engaged in such a complicated relationship would feel the gravitational pull of its partners, bringing a strange rhythm to its dance: a systematic wobble of the center of mass of the system. “I was very surprised to learn that follow-up measurements with ground-based telescopes revealed no evidence of a stellar-mass companion.”

Is the star just burning out?

Despite the subtle, long-term dimming observed, this is not a matter of the lights simply going out at Boyajian’s star. Astronomers have determined this is a type of star that is fusing hydrogen into helium in its core. Given that fact and where it is in its expected lifetime, it should be gradually brightening, not growing fainter.

Apart from its long-term evolution, a star’s magnetic activity – which produces sunspots – does go through shorter cycles, creating some ups and downs in brightness. However, the extent of those changes and the timescale on which they occur are not comparable to this one’s sudden, dramatic dips. For example, the brightness of our sun may decrease periodically, but that’s a change on the order of just one-tenth of one percent over its 11-year solar cycle.

Was there simply an instrument glitch?

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Some observers questioned if an instrument glitch could be responsible for the strange data on Boyajian’s star. No, says Doug Caldwell, SETI Institute researcher and instrument scientist for the Kepler mission at Ames—for two reasons. First, the results are the same, regardless of which of the telescope’s detectors were observing the star, ruling out a defect on the lens of the photometer, or the on-board camera. Second, the enormous drops in brightness were already visible in every single pixel attributed to this star in the Kepler images. Usually, all those pixels need to be added together and the total brightness of a star measured, in order to detect a change; if any pixels belonging to another star are mistakenly included, this can create a false positive. That was clearly not the case here.

So far, no warrant has yet been issued for any one explanation’s arrest, and so the hunt goes on.

Keeping Many Eyes on the Star

With the case of Boyajian’s star still open, scientists continue to ask What if…?, and adjust their ideas according to what the data reveals. Some proposed solutions could even come back into fashion as more measurements are made, revealing more definitively whether the star has any companions and how they might interact. Using telescopes around the world to analyze the star’s light at all wavelengths and with greater resolution, astronomers are picking out more details of its characteristics.

They’re also monitoring the star over the long term.

“To learn more, we needed to catch it in action again. It just comes down to that,” Boyajian said. "We can't rule anything out completely until the evidence warrants it."

In May 2017, and again in June, August and September, the star obliged with new performances of unexplained dimming, and astronomers were ready for it. The dips in brightness were smaller this time, and the four events lasted between five days and two weeks. Scientists are now processing this new data, wondering if it will hold the key to understanding this remarkable star.

"This kind of patiently executed, coordinated monitoring at multiple wavelengths will unlock this mystery eventually," Batalha said.

Until that time, the public and scientists alike can follow the investigation’s progress online with the hashtag #TabbysStar, checking for new clues or new dimming events from the star, and watching as researcher-detectives work hard to crack the case.

Ames manages the Kepler and K2 missions for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory managed Kepler mission development. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation operates the flight system with support from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Work on this study was performed in part under contract with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory funded by NASA through the Sagan Fellowship Program executed by the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute.

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For more information about the Kepler mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/kepler

Author: Abby Tabor, NASA's Ames Research Center

Media contact: Darryl Waller, NASA’s Ames Research Center

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